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Jacob OglesAugust 25, 2018

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The U.S. Senate’s new minibus budget package will include several measures advanced by Sen. Marco Rubio, including $1 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address algal blooms affecting Florida’s waters right now. The bill also includes $10 million in grant funding to increase mental health professional connections between universities and low-income […]

Jacob OglesJuly 8, 2018

Republican congressional candidate Javier Manjarres on Friday accused a Parkland father of exploiting his child’s death. Manjarres, known best in Florida political circles for his Shark Tank blog, started a Twitter squabble with Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was among 17 killed in the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting on Feb. 14. “C’mon […]

Kate BradshawJune 14, 2018

Although he had a good run in his two years as House Speaker — and managed to make a splash as a prospective candidate for governor, the Land O’ Lakes Republican falls five spots this year. He claimed the No. 2 slot last year after his raucous showdown with Gov. Rick Scott over VISIT FLORIDA and Enterprise […]

Guest AuthorMarch 5, 2018

Florida Politics recently ran a column calling me out for raising campaign dollars in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas massacre and did so without the benefit of several key facts, nor asking my input. Allow me to offer both now. First, in the immediate wake, we used our team of supporters to raise funds […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 21, 2018

Like many of you, I have been praying for those that were murdered or injured in Parkland, as well as for their families and the community. Our hearts are broken for them. The grief and sorrow being experienced by this community is no doubt crushing to their souls and we should continue to lift them […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 19, 2018

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And there it is. The look. The look I knew I would see. And I will get it again and again, from this moment forward. I just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly. As my family checked in to our hotel tonight, after two nights of choppy, if any sleep, countless hours spent wandering […]

Joe HendersonFebruary 15, 2018

Gun control? That’s a laugh, given the culture of political complicity created by the National Rifle Association. In the alternate universe in which NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre and his army of lawmakers throughout live, more guns “make America safe and free.” That’s what he said before the NRA’s 2013 meeting in Houston. Safe? I wonder […]

Tag: Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School

Marco Rubio secures school safety, algal bloom funds

Javier Manjarres accuses Parkland father of exploiting child’s death

#7 on list of Tampa Bay’s Most Powerful Politicians — Richard Corcoran

Emma Collum: Taking action means just that!

Bob White: Our rights to life and liberty are secured by our right to keep and bear arms

Jill Beitscher Fox: ‘The look’

Joe Henderson: Gun control? Politicians make sure we don’t have a prayer