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Scott PowersJune 19, 2018

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham is going after state public records on what Gov. Rick Scott‘s office might have known about the immigrant child detention facility in Homestead and “any other facilities in the state.” Her public records request submitted Tuesday declares that such detention facilities have created “a moral crisis.” Graham is demanding to […]

Staff ReportsJune 23, 2017

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Chief Justice Jorge Labarga on Friday announced the first members of a panel to advise the Florida Supreme Court‘s commission on helping the state’s poor and working poor get legal help. The Council of Business Partners will advise the Commission on Access to Civil Justice, created by Labarga in 2014. “Employers, too, have a stake in this,” Labarga […]

Martin DyckmanSeptember 4, 2014

When my old newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times, zinged Gov. Rick Scott with an editorial describing him as a man without a heart, an accompanying illustration put his face on the iconic image of the Tin Man in the “Wizard of Oz.” That was too generous to Scott. Jack Haley’s character in the classic motion […]

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Gwen Graham seeks Rick Scott’s records on Florida’s federal family separation facilities

Jorge Labarga names Council of Business Partners members

Martin Dyckman: Once again, Gov. Scott vetoed a modest appropriation for civil legal aid to the poor