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Guest AuthorNovember 2, 2015

If you believe that smoking cures cancer and rainfall is a fix for flooding, then Gov. Rick Scott has some health care proposals for you. Scott wants to foist a battery of new regulations onto about 129 hospitals across Florida in 2016 as a means of improving health care. He has proposed requiring them to […]

Guest AuthorNovember 1, 2015

If you believe that smoking cures cancer and rainfall is a fix for flooding, then Gov. Rick Scott has some health care proposals for you. Scott wants to foist a battery of new regulations onto about 129 hospitals across Florida in 2016 as a means of improving health care. He has proposed requiring them to […]

Guest AuthorOctober 27, 2015

Another dangerously flawed “Family Law Reform” bill has been once again submitted in the Florida Legislature. As this flawed legislation persists, Republican Sen. Tom Lee, who has been embroiled in his own past divorce and child support battles, has now introduced Family Law Reform bill SB 250. Many marginalized members of The Florida Bar are […]

Bill PrescottOctober 26, 2015

Term limits have spelled disaster for the Florida Legislature – erasing experience, dumbing down the process, and leaving lobbyists even more firmly in control. It was the achievement of people who preferred to weaken government rather than improve it. Florida being Florida, it figures that some people now propose to do the same to the […]

Guest AuthorOctober 25, 2015

It’s already been a sad week for black bears in Florida. On Saturday, the first day of the big Florida black bear hunt, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission stopped the hunting in Central Florida after 99 bears were killed, just one under the quota for that region’s weeklong season. Statewide, 207 bears were […]

Drew WilsonOctober 23, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott said Friday that Florida’s private-sector job growth rate led all large states last month and used the news to ask the Legislature for $250 million in business incentive funding. “Florida continues to lead other large states, including our No. 1 competitor, Texas, in job growth because our pro-business, low-tax policies are out-competing other locations […]

Bob SparksOctober 22, 2015

One month ago the Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit was in the news for reasons other than those intended. With only former Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio committed to appear before those gathering on November 13 and 14, some drastic action to boost participation was contemplated. Those presidential candidates failing to […]

Jim RosicaOctober 22, 2015

Pete Antonacci, the new head of the South Florida Water Management District, doesn’t have a conflict of interest just because his lawyer wife has clients with matters before the district. That’s the opinion of Florida Commission on Ethics staff, which will be considered for approval by commission members at their meeting Friday morning, according to […]

Jim RosicaOctober 20, 2015

Bill Johnson, head of the state’s economic development agency, continued to take hits from state senators Tuesday as he pressed for still more money for business incentive programs. Johnson, CEO of Enterprise Florida, appeared before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development. Gov. Rick Scott’s point man on enticing new business to […]

Guest AuthorOctober 19, 2015

“Not one more.” “Enough is enough.” “When will we do something about these mass shootings?” These are routine responses when someone shoots up a school, of which there have been three this month alone. In addition, let’s not forget about accidental shootings in the home, domestic abusers killing girlfriends or wives, countless suicides and murders […]

Tag: Gov. Rick Scott

Sarah Maricle Ayers: Rick Scott should stay out of hospitals’ business

Sarah Maricle Ayers: Rick Scott should stay out of hospitals’ business

Judge Robert M. Evans: Enough is enough – Florida needs a neutral "Family Law Reform" task force

Martin Dyckman: Judiciary term limits? Bad idea

Michael Sainato: Black bears, good science on losing end as hunt begins

Rick Scott uses job growth data to bolster incentives request

Bob Sparks: 30 days later, Sunshine Summit boasts full agenda

Board will consider Pete Antonacci ethics opinion

Bill Johnson keeps up fight for incentives funding

Catherine Durkin Robinson: Here are 11 concrete actions you can take to curb gun violence