Staff ReportsMarch 10, 2024
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Some would likely have benefited residents and businesses. Others are more divisive and potentially harmful.
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Staff ReportsMarch 10, 2024
Peter SchorschNovember 29, 2023
7min0
An act of heroism was almost fatal, and it's time the state made it right.
Jesse SchecknerOctober 9, 2023
14min0
‘He’s lucky in a lot of ways, but that doesn’t take away from the fact he deserves compensation here. This claim bill is not a lottery ticket.’
Jesse SchecknerApril 28, 2023
12min0
'The judicial system did its part. They overturned his conviction. They set him free. We have a part to play, and this is it.'
Jesse SchecknerApril 19, 2023
9min0
It amounts to $50,000 for each year the state kept him behind bars.
Jesse SchecknerApril 13, 202312min0
DNA evidence uncovered by former State Attorney Andrew Warren’s office exonerated him in 2020.
Jesse SchecknerFebruary 14, 2023
9min0
In passing just one committee, the bill is already more successful than any of its prior iterations.
Peter SchorschAugust 23, 2017
3min272
Republican state Rep. Bryan Avila earned some praise from Americans for Prosperity-Florida for sponsoring a bill to kill Sunshine State stadium deals. The conservative group called the Florida Sports Development Fund, an incentive program greenlighted by lawmakers in 2014, “corporate welfare” and lauded Avila’s HB 6005, filed Tuesday, for attempting to repeal the “sports incentive […]
Scott PowersMarch 1, 2017
6min247
A gun laws debate featuring staunch 2nd Amendment Republican state Rep. Scott Plakon and irrepressible “common-sense reforms” Democrat state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith boiled down Tuesday night between a demand that fundamental rights should not be abridged without compelling reasons, and expressions of perceived compelling reasons. Plakon, a Longwood Republican who sponsored House Bill 6005, […]
Larry GriffinDecember 7, 2016
5min566
Representative Scott Plakon is spearheading a new bill to remove a prohibition on guns on college campuses. The bill, HB 6005, amends an earlier ruling on where guns are and are not allowed, deleting the portion stating that a license to concealed carry a firearm does not allow guns into “Any college or university facility […]