Danny McAuliffeJanuary 18, 2019
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Erwin Jackson to appeal decision
Tag: Gov. Rick Scott
Danny McAuliffeJanuary 18, 2019
Joe HendersonJanuary 16, 2019
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All that doesn’t make him a "moderate," though.
Jim RosicaJanuary 11, 2019
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Gov. Ron DeSantis didn’t say Friday whether he thinks climate change is at least partly caused by human activity. The new Governor, a Ponte Vedra Beach Republican, held his first press conference in the Governor’s Office with the Capitol Press Corps. DeSantis came out swinging for the environment Thursday, issuing an executive order to a Chief […]
Joe HendersonJanuary 10, 2019
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By now, Florida lawmakers surely realize continuing to fight the expansion of medical marijuana is reefer madness. Gov. Ron DeSantis apparently is in that camp. He is ready to stop the state’s legal battle to keep patients from smoking prescribed medical weed. Is that actual common sense coming out of Tallahassee? Sure sounded like it. Some […]
Jim RosicaJanuary 8, 2019
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Rick Scott on Monday evening — just hours before his successor takes office — announced his final judicial appointments as Governor. They include naming his chief deputy general counsel to the 5th District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach. Meredith Sasso, 35, of Orlando, received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Florida, a […]
Staff ReportsJanuary 4, 2019
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In what could be his final judicial namings as Governor, Rick Scott announced appointments Friday to the 7th and 9th Circuit and Orange County courts. He appointed Bryan Rendzio as circuit judge for the 7th Judicial Circuit, which includes Flagler, Putnam, St. Johns and Volusia counties. Rendzio, 43, of Ponte Vedra Beach, is a shareholder of Florida Business and […]
Staff ReportsJanuary 1, 2019
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Three bills that passed the 2018 Legislative Session and were signed by Gov. Rick Scott will take effect on the first day of the new year. Summaries below have been adapted from various staff analyses: — HB 85, on “Voter Registration List Maintenance.” The bill allows the Department of State to become a member of a nongovernmental […]
Jim RosicaDecember 29, 2018
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State regulators are appealing an administrative law judge’s ruling that could allow retailers to sell hard liquor in their main stores, instead of in separate stores as they do now. The Department of Business Professional Regulation (DBPR), which oversees booze sales through its Division of Alcoholic Beverages And Tobacco (ABT), on Friday filed a notice of appeal to […]
Danny McAuliffeDecember 23, 2018
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Some state employees might think it a given to spend Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve away from work each year. But the reality is Florida government workers normally get nine holidays: New Year’s, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving and the Friday after, as […]
Jim RosicaDecember 19, 2018
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Karen Gievers, a Tallahassee-based circuit judge whose rulings often thwarted Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP-controlled Legislature, has resigned. Her letter, dated Wednesday, was sent to Gov. Scott on the same day. Her resignation itself, however, isn’t effective until April 27, 2019, her 70th birthday. That’s when she must step down because of a previously mandatory […]