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Janelle Irwin TaylorMarch 4, 2015

Despite opposition from numerous equality, healthcare, and social service groups, a House bill making it illegal to use a restroom designated for the opposite sex was voted “favorable” during its first committee stop Wednesday. The Single-Sex Public Facilities bill proposed by South Florida Republican Frank Artiles passed the House Civil Justice Subcommittee 9-4 after countless […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorMarch 4, 2015

The group Equality Florida is asking supporters to email their state representatives urging them to vote no on an anti-transgender bill making its way through committees on this first full day of session. The single-sex public facilities bill would require individuals to use only restrooms for the sex in which they were assigned at birth. The […]

Diane RobertsMarch 2, 2015

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – Some Florida towns have a strawberry festival; some have a seafood festival or a jazz festival or even a frog leg festival. Here in Florida’s capital, we put on an annual Festival of Bad Ideas. Its other name is the Legislative session. Come spring, legislators swarm, careening madly down our narrow, pretty […]

Diane RobertsMarch 2, 2015

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – Some Florida towns have a strawberry festival; some have a seafood festival or a jazz festival or even a frog leg festival. Here in Florida’s capital, we put on an annual Festival of Bad Ideas. Its other name is the Legislative session. Come spring, legislators swarm, careening madly down our narrow, pretty […]

Diane RobertsMarch 2, 2015

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – Some Florida towns have a strawberry festival; some have a seafood festival or a jazz festival or even a frog leg festival. Here in Florida’s capital, we put on an annual Festival of Bad Ideas. Its other name is the Legislative session. Come spring, legislators swarm, careening madly down our narrow, pretty […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 6, 2015

If and when former Olympic hero turned reality TV personality Bruce Jenner does make his transition to becoming transgender, she would become the most famous personality in America to do so yet. Transgendered people in the U.S. are certainly having their moment in popular culture, what with the success of Amazon’s Transparent, which has been hailed by […]

James CallJanuary 7, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott’s marketing plan for the state of Florida is starting to come into focus. In his second term inaugural address Tuesday, Scott called on the businesses and people of California, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois to move to Florida. “Over the next four years, I will be traveling to your states personally to […]

James CallJanuary 7, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott’s marketing plan for the state of Florida is starting to come into focus. In his second term inaugural address Tuesday, Scott called on the businesses and people of California, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois to move to Florida. “Over the next four years, I will be traveling to your states personally to […]

Ryan RayDecember 9, 2014

Another pair of Republican state House members – again in the supermajority after ceding seats in 2012 – have filed to run for their seats once more in 2016: Sanford Rep. Jason Brodeur and Rep. Frank Artiles of Miami have each filed paperwork re-opening campaign accounts and making formal their intentions to seek a fourth and […]

Christine Jordan SextonOctober 23, 2014

After a moratorium that lasted more than a decade, it appears that there is a rush in Florida to open new nursing homes. State health care regulators this week received 137 letters from companies that are vying to operate new nursing homes that offer 3,115 beds for patients beginning in 2017 as well as a […]

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Same-sex bathroom bill moves through first committee stop

Equality Florida asks for support killing an anti-trans bathroom bill

Diane Roberts: Welcome to Tallahassee’s Festival of Bad Ideas

Diane Roberts: Welcome to Tallahassee's Festival of Bad Ideas

Diane Roberts: Welcome to Tallahassee's Festival of Bad Ideas

Frank Artiles bill on transgendered people getting piss-poor reviews

Enterprise Florida and DEO pitch Leg for money for a “Perfect Business Climate” campaign

Enterprise Florida and DEO pitch Leg for money for a "Perfect Business Climate" campaign

Reps. Jason Brodeur and Frank Artiles lay groundwork for 2016

End of nursing home moratorium sparks big interest, money and possible legal challenges