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Mitch PerryApril 27, 2017

Democratic political consultant Christian Ulvert says is seriously considering a run the Senate District 40 seat left vacant with the resignation of Frank Artiles. “I’ve had a greater calling to serve in public office just because of the issues and the work that I do,” Ulvert told FloridaPolitics Thursday morning, just before he was scheduled to get on a plane […]

Mitch PerryApril 19, 2017

Andrew Gillum is refusing to forgive Miami Republican Frank Artiles, who apologized on the Senate floor Wednesday for using the N-word toward two black lawmakers. The Tallahassee mayor, an African-American who is running for governor next year, says Artiles needs to resign from the Florida Senate. “We have struggled with days when these words were too common,” Gillum […]

Mitch PerryApril 14, 2017

Electorally speaking, for two decades now, it’s been a good time to be a Republican in Florida. But after last fall’s victory by Donald Trump, the Chicken Chard and salmon dill seemed to go down even smoother Thursday night at the Sarasota County Reagan Patriot Day Dinner in Venice. “Gosh, isn’t it great to be a Republican? Even greater that The Donald […]

Staff ReportsApril 5, 2017

After calling for a review of U.S. policy toward Cuba, the Donald Trump administration is considering several options, with no clear favorite as of yet. However, the Miami Herald reports that Sen. Marco Rubio spoke with Trump “three times about Cuba.” “We’ve been walking through all these issues with the president and his team, figuring out […]

Associated PressApril 5, 2017

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The South Florida home where the late U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno lived will be preserved and donated to Miami-Dade College. The Miami Herald reports a final agreement is being ironed out to donate the ranch which sat on the edge of the Everglades where Reno’s mother built the rustic home in the 1940s. It’s […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 23, 2017

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Mike Sallah, a Pulitzer Prize-winning member of the Miami Herald Brain Drain, may be working for Gannett in Washington, but he’s still looking out for the folks in Florida. Sallah and Naples Daily News staffer Kristyn Wellesley teamed up to add some important context to our understanding of airport security following the mass shooting in […]

Staff ReportsJanuary 16, 2017

The Miami Herald’s Audra Burch is departing the newspaper to join the New York Times as a Miami-based national enterprise reporter. The Random Pixels blog last week shared a staff memo about Burch’s hire. Burch, whom Herald editors called their “extraordinarily talented enterprise reporter,” collaborated with Carol Marbin Miller on 2014’s Innocents Lost. The Herald’s series “painstakingly examined […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 3, 2017

With Republicans in control of all branches of state government for what is approaching nearly two decades, one check on their levers of power has been the Florida Supreme Court, which has at times has served as a safeguard to what some would call the Legislature’s worst excesses, such as redistricting and the death penalty. Until […]

Mitch PerryDecember 16, 2016

Good morning to you all on this, the last Friday MPR I’ll be filing in 2016 … Good news for those of us on the Affordable Care Act: While the GOP-led House of Representative promise to repeal the ACA within the first 100 days of the Trump administration, the date that the provisions of the […]

Joe HendersonDecember 12, 2016

In 2003, then-Gov. Jeb Bush punished reporters from the Tallahassee bureau of the Palm Beach Post by canceling their invitation to his year-end interview session. His staff cited the “unprofessional behavior” while dealing with some of Bush’s officials, but the paper suspected it was in retaliation for critical reporting on Bush’s pet school vouchers program. I’m betting […]

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Rodney Guttman, image via University of West Florida.

Christian Ulvert says he is ‘seriously considering’ run for SD 40 seat

Andrew Gillum: Frank Artiles needs to go

In Sarasota, Adam Putnam warns GOP of complacency in 2018

Marco Rubio working ‘behind-the-scenes’ to shape Donald Trump Cuba policy

Report: Janet Reno’s ranch to be donated to Miami college

Sobering news surfaces about security at Fort Lauderdale Airport

Personnel note: Audra Burch to NYT

Mitch Perry Report for 1.3.17 — Remembering Justice Perry’s words

Mitch Perry Report for 12.16.16 – Friday follies

Joe Henderson to the Palm Beach Post: Are you freaking crazy?