Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 28, 2019
4min738
CRAs were created for redevelopment, fighting blight. Critics say they've been misused.
Tag: HB 9
Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 28, 2019
Ana CeballosJanuary 30, 20184min255
Amid tough immigration talk in Florida politics this election year, state senators on Tuesday halted a bid to penalize local officials in so-called “sanctuary cities” who do not fully comply with federal immigration authorities. The Republican sponsor of the measure, Sen. Aaron Bean, requested his bill be temporarily postponed as it did not “yet meet […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 30, 2018
3min272
On Tuesday afternoon, the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee will be the first Senate panel to mull the sanctuary cities ban bill (HB 9) that passed the House already. And one of the House co-sponsors of that measure — Jacksonville Republican Jay Fant, a candidate for Attorney General — sent an email to supporters last night, urging them […]
Danny McAuliffeJanuary 9, 2018
5min301
Gov. Rick Scott laid out his ambitions — which included cutting taxes, addressing problems created by hurricanes Irma and Maria, and expanding victims’ rights, among other things — during the State of the State speech in the Capitol building on Tuesday, but not too far away, a different, more intimate crowd listened to an alternative […]
Ana CeballosJanuary 9, 2018
5min287
House Speaker Richard Corcoran kicked off the 2018 Session vowing to challenge the status quo by bringing a deluge of reforms and not allowing Florida to “become a sanctuary state like California.” “When I look around this room, I see a chamber filled with reformers,” Corcoran said. “I don’t say that to flatter you, I […]