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Scott PowersSeptember 25, 2018

Long before Republican Gov. Rick Scott entered Florida’s U.S. Senate race, Democrats vowed they would attack him for his leadership of the scandal-plagued Hospital Corporation of America and his prospering personal finances since then. A new ad dropping Tuesday delivers on that pledge. Majority Forward, a Democratic political action committee that has been pounding Scott […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 25, 2018

Target and Walmart are heading to court to get an administrative law judge to give them what Gov. Rick Scott wouldn’t: The ability to sell whiskey and Wheaties in the same store. The big-box retailers late Monday filed an administrative challenge against the state’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages And Tobacco (ABT). At issue: The state’s obscure, 24-year-old “Restaurant Rule,” which restricts […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 20, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday ordered flags at half-staff “as a tribute to those who lost their lives during Hurricane Maria.” Scott directed the U.S. and state flags to be flown at half-staff at the Capitol from noon Thursday to sunset. He did not make a statement to accompany his order. Scott was traveling to Puerto […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 18, 2018

Christy Daly Brodeur, formerly Secretary of Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice under Gov. Rick Scott, has joined the Ballard Partners influence firm in Tallahassee. The move was first reported in Tuesday’s SUNBURN. “Christy’s successful track record of partnering with key stakeholder groups to achieve favorable outcomes for all parties is a tremendous asset for our firm, our […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 14, 2018

The state constitution “creates a procedural right to seek treatment with smokable marijuana,” according to a new filing in an appeal by patients seeking to light up medicinal cannabis. Attorney Jon Mills filed a 48-page answer brief late Thursday, in response to the state’s 57-page brief last month arguing that the smoking of medical marijuana […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 12, 2018

The Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission on Wednesday announced it would start accepting applications to fill three upcoming vacancies. Justices Barbara Pariente, R. Fred Lewis, and Peggy A. Quince face mandatory retirement on the same day that term-limited Republican Gov. Rick Scott will leave office. Under the state constitution, judges and justices face mandatory retirement at […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 10, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags at half-staff on Tuesday “in honor and remembrance of the victims of 9/11.” The governor directed the U.S. and state flags to be flown at half-staff “at all local and state buildings, installations, and grounds throughout the state of Florida,” he said in a statement. The flags will remain at half-staff until […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 8, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags at half-staff on Saturday for George Sheldon, a longtime children’s advocate and former state official who died last month. Scott directed the U.S. and state flags to be flown at half-staff at the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, City Hall in Miami, City Hall in Plant City, and at the Capitol in Tallahassee from […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 7, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags at half-staff for Taylor J. Galvin, a U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3). Galvin died after an Aug. 20 helicopter crash in Iraq. His wife’s family live in Cedar Key. Scott directed the U.S. and state flags to be flown at half-staff at the Levy County Courthouse in Bronson, Town Hall in Cedar Key, and […]

Staff ReportsSeptember 7, 2018

An appellate court has granted a request for oral argument in a dispute between the owners of a Tallahassee office complex and several state agencies who bolted on the master lease. Dockets reviewed Thursday show an argument date of Oct. 9 before the 1st District Court of Appeal in a lawsuit over Northwood Centre, a […]

Tag: Gov. Rick Scott

Here comes promised Democratic hits on HCA, wealth against Rick Scott

Target, Walmart file rule challenge for ‘whiskey and Wheaties’

Flags at half-staff for victims of Hurricane Maria

Personnel note: Christy Daly Brodeur joins Ballard Partners

Marijuana smoking ban case smolders in appellate court

Apply within: Panel starts process to replace Supreme Court justices

Flags at half-staff to honor victims of Sept. 11, 2001

Flags ordered at half-staff for George Sheldon

RIP ‘Every day hero’: Flags at half-staff for Taylor J. Galvin

Oral arguments ordered in state office complex ‘bat poop’ case