Anne GeggisApril 18, 2023
6min0
Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump get special mention.
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Anne GeggisApril 18, 2023
Drew WilsonApril 29, 2019
6min1168
"At the beginning of session, insiders claimed CON repeal was impossible"
Jacob OglesApril 4, 2019
6min480
Bill impacts everything from barbers to auctioneers.
Brendan FarringtonApril 1, 2016
5min504
A federal judge in Tallahassee agrees with the Florida Department of Agriculture that an all-natural creamery can’t label its skim milk “skim milk” because it doesn’t add vitamins to it. So unless an appeals court disagrees, Calhoun County’s Ocheesee Creamery will continue to dump perfectly good skim milk down the drain rather than comply with […]
Phil AmmannFebruary 10, 2016
5min194
Last of three parts. Unlike Florida’s stagnant civil forfeiture laws, other states have worked to address the problem. New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, and Washington, D.C. have joined North Carolina by either banning civil forfeiture or requiring a criminal conviction as a prerequisite for all forfeitures. This is in addition to other states, like California, […]
Phil AmmannFebruary 9, 20166min215
Second of three parts. Civil forfeiture began as something relatively innocuous. Throughout most of U.S. history, civil forfeiture was primarily used to enforce duties and excise taxes. But this all changed during the 1980s, as law enforcement agencies around the nation began to realize that they could supplement their resources by pursuing civil forfeiture instead […]
Phil AmmannFebruary 8, 20164min190
First of three parts Floridians consider property rights to be sacrosanct. Indeed, our state constitution extends further than most by expressly declaring the rights to “acquire, possess and protect property” as basic and inalienable. Unfortunately, our actions over the last three decades in one specific area have not lived up to this promise. This area […]