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Staff ReportsSeptember 26, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott Monday nominated two new members of the state panel that oversees Florida’s veterinarians. Subject to confirmation by the state Senate, Rudd Nelson and Sharon Powell would join the Board of Veterinary Medicine for three-year terms ending on Oct. 31, 2019. Nelson, 43, of Lighthouse Point, is himself a veterinarian who owns Bayview Animal Clinic […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 23, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott, lamenting federal inaction on the Zika virus, has earmarked $25 million in state money for vaccine research. “I have traveled multiple times to Washington this year to meet with congressional leaders to tell them how urgent this need is. Yet, despite endless claims of support from those within both parties, nothing has […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 22, 2016

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Three members of the Florida Rehabilitation Council for the Blind will serve another tour of duty. Gov. Rick Scott announced Wednesday that he has reappointed the three for terms ending in 2019. They are: Howard Bell, 62, of St. Petersburg, a senior advocate investigator with Disability Rights Florida, which advocates for disabled people and advises them […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 21, 2016

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has joined Gov. Rick Scott’s appeal to the Obama administration to declare much of Florida a disaster zone. “I am writing to urge that you approve the State of Florida’s request for a major disaster declaration related to Hurricane Hermine as soon as possible,” Nelson wrote in a letter to President […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 21, 2016

Florida’s business owners will soon find out the fate of a proposed increase of nearly 20 percent in workers compensation insurance rates. “We’re getting very close to being finished with those review and putting these rate filings out into the public, so our business owners and community can respond to that and plan effectively,” state […]

Michael MolineSeptember 20, 2016

One of Florida’s best-respected business leaders read Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature the riot act Tuesday over insufficient support for business development. Charles Cobb Jr. was polite about it — courtly even — during an address to the Economic Club of Florida in Tallahassee. But he was clear that the state’s leaders need to […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 17, 2016

Miami Beach’s Zika zone just grew. The Florida Department of Health expanded the area of believed active transmission of the virus from 8th Street to 63rd Street in Miami Beach Friday night. The revised zone is now around 4.5 square miles. “While we’ve learned that we’re expanding the impacted area in Miami Beach, the good […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 16, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott has injected another $10 million in state money into the fight to contain Zika, voicing frustration at Washington’s failure to act. Fresh off meetings with congressional leaders in the nation’s capital, Scott told reporters in Fort Myers, “It’s hard to believe they’re not focused on this. We’ve got to take care of […]

Michael MolineSeptember 6, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott said Tuesday he personally would help clear debris in Tallahassee. On Wednesday, “I, along with agency heads, along with volunteers from the National Guard, along with veterans’ groups, we’re going to be out in Tallahassee in different places, and we’re going to be picking up debris,” Scott said in a news conference. […]

Michael MolineSeptember 2, 2016

Don’t let your guard down now that Hurricane Hermine has passed, Gov. Rick Scott urged Friday. “We know there is a lot of work left to do following this storm. We will spend the coming days assessing the damage and responding to the needs of our communities and Florida families,” he said. “The number one thing […]

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Personnel Note: Two nominated to Board of Veterinary Medicine

Rick Scott launches Zika vaccine research initiative

Personnel note: Three reappointed to Council for the Blind

Bill Nelson seconds Rick Scott’s call for Hermine disaster declaration

Decision near on proposed workers compensation insurance rate hike

Rick Scott, Legislature scolded over cuts to Enterprise Florida

Rick Scott announces expansion of Zika transmission zone

Rick Scott boosts state spending in fight against Zika

Rick Scott rolling up sleeves for Tallahassee cleanup — literally [update]

Hermine has passed but danger has not, Rick Scott warns