Jim RosicaApril 9, 2019
8min705
"This isn't about being high. This is about being medicated."
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Jim RosicaApril 9, 2019
Scott PowersMarch 4, 2019
8min469
'I don't think you want to punish the students,' Fine said.
Scott PowersFebruary 26, 20194min372
The proposals might not be the only ones now being considered, as the investigation broadened.
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 8, 2018
7min312
Incoming Senate President Bill Galvano, a Bradenton Republican, sees positives in the state’s latest long-range financial outlook, per a memo released Friday. Galvano describes the outlook as “steady and consistent with prior budget and economic snapshots” from recent years, with “modest surpluses in the current and upcoming fiscal year, followed by shortfalls in the out-years that would […]
Ryan NicolJune 6, 2018
3min526
U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart may have just helped open the door to more offshore drilling in parts of the U.S. But Florida appears to be in the clear for now. Members of the House Appropriations Committee voted today on an amendment to prevent the expansion of offshore drilling into new areas, including the Atlantic and […]
Scott PowersMay 21, 2018
2min324
The bipartisan congressional Climate Solutions Caucus, led by Democratic U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch and Republican U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, is urging House budget leaders to remove provisions from 2019 budget proposals that would hamper climate change research and initiatives. The pair of Florida lawmakers, Deutch from Boca Raton and Curbelo from Kendall, sent a letter to […]
Michael MolineFebruary 14, 2018
5min428
A bill OK’d Wednesday would clear the way for a likeness of Florida educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune to replace one of a Confederate general representing Florida in the U.S. Capitol. The House Appropriations Committee unanimously cleared the measure (HB 139), making it available for the floor. The Senate version (SB 472) also cleared the floor […]
Michael MolineFebruary 14, 2018
5min265
Legislation to bar health insurers from retroactively denying claims passed the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday, after the sponsor promised to keep massaging language allowing insurers to tip off providers that a patient might not be covered. The committee had been poised to vote on updated language allowing insurers to inform doctors that a patient’s policy […]
Danny McAuliffeOctober 23, 2017
5min383
House Appropriations Chairman Carlos Trujillo is looking to take a breather on education-related new construction and rehabs. The Public Education Capital Outlay Trust Fund, or PECO, is used for maintaining, restoring and repairing existing state education facilities. It includes Florida colleges, universities and K-12 schools. Funded by gross receipts taxes, or charges on utilities and […]
Associated PressJune 13, 2017
8min162
Cuba’s best friends in the U.S. used to be a smattering of Washington policy wonks and leftists who sent donated school buses and computers to the communist-led island. Five months into the Trump administration, Cuba has a new set of American defenders: a coalition of high-tech firms, farming interests, travel companies and young Cuban-Americans thrown […]