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Jim RosicaMarch 30, 2018

Let the good times roll — to your door. A bill (HB 667) that would expressly allow Floridians to use a smartphone app to order alcoholic beverages for home delivery was one of 18 signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott on Friday. Services with apps, such as Drizly and Shipt, already deliver in the state. But “current law does not address orders […]

Jim RosicaMarch 30, 2018

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Top men in the Legislature are considering a Special Session to tackle unresolved gambling issues from the 2018 Regular Session, including renewal of a deal between the state and the Seminole Tribe. It’s all about the money. The Tribe paid a little more than $290 million last fiscal year into state coffers as part of a 2010 […]

Staff ReportsMarch 29, 2018

Democratic state Sen. Darryl Rouson of St. Petersburg is calling on Gov. Rick Scott to “fix the ‘fatally flawed’ voting rights restoration process for convicted felons.” U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of Tallahassee this week issued a permanent injunction declaring Florida’s restoration process in violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments. “It is past time for Florida to revise […]

Staff ReportsMarch 26, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags at half staff for two Florida men killed in a military helicopter crash in the Middle East. On March 15, U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. William R. Posch of Indialantic and Air Force Staff Sgt. Carl Enis of Tallahassee died along with five other crew members in the crash, in […]

Staff ReportsMarch 26, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott held a signing ceremony Monday for measures that make permanent the state’s emergency rules requiring every nursing home and assisted living facility in Florida to have emergency generators. The two bills (HB 7099, SB 7028) replace a pair of emergency rules that the Scott administration issued in September. That followed the deaths of residents of The […]

Staff ReportsMarch 23, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half-staff to honor two Navy Aviators: Lt. Cmdr. James Brice Johnson of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Lt. Caleb Nathaniel King of Port Orange. They died Wednesday when their F/A-18F Super Hornet crashed on final approach near the Naval Air Station in Key West. The two were assigned to the “Blacklions” of Strike […]

Scott PowersMarch 21, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott condemned the boycott-Israel movement as anti-Semitism as he signed House Bill 545 in Orlando Wednesday, outlawing Florida governments from doing business with any entities boycotting Israel. Scott’s bill-signing ceremony Wednesday at the Orlando Torah Academy, a Jewish day school, also served to allow him to tout the $2 million that was included in the state […]

Jim RosicaMarch 21, 2018

House Speaker Richard Corcoran is telling the Constitution Revision Commission that a pending gun proposal is “inappropriate for inclusion in the state Constitution.” The speaker sent a one-page letter to commissioners Wednesday. He pointed to “an ‘assault’ weapons ban, a ban on specific magazines, and an extended waiting period,” saying he had “grave concern.” An amendment, filed […]

Joe HendersonMarch 20, 2018

Outgoing Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran is a savvy and, if needed, ruthless political operative. With that in mind, I can only conclude he knew what he was doing when he helped steer the recent gun-control bill through the Legislature. Gov. Rick Scott signed it, and now Mama Gun is very angry with her boys. Mama, […]

Staff ReportsMarch 20, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered flags at half staff “in honor and remembrance of the victims of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse” in Miami. His office made the announcement Tuesday. The U.S. and state flags will be flown at half-staff sunrise to sunset Thursday at the Capitol in Tallahassee, “and at all local and state […]

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Crowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)

Rick Scott signs 18 bills, including booze delivery; vetoes one

Legislative leaders ponder special session on gambling

Darryl Rouson on voting rights: Fix this now

Flags at half-staff for Air Force sergeants killed in Iraq

Rick Scott signs nursing home generator requirements

Flags at half-staff for fallen service members

Rick Scott condemns Israel boycotts as anti-Semitism

Richard Corcoran: ‘Grave concern’ about gun-related CRC measure

Joe Henderson: NRA drops Hammer on Richard Corcoran, but will it matter?

Flags at half staff for FIU bridge collapse victims