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Drew WilsonSeptember 5, 2015

Tallahassee attorney James Messer, Jr. filed to run Thursday for Leon County’s House District 9 seat. Messer is the first Republican candidate to file for the left-leaning seat held by term-limited Democratic Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda. “I believe it’s time for reasonable people to be heard again. I believe it is time for Leon County to […]

Peter SchorschApril 30, 2015

The Tallahassee gossip mill is nearly always circulating rumors about former Rep. Loranne Ausley running for an opportune office. Leon Superintendent, Supervisor of Elections, City Commission, perhaps a crack at Congress … you name it, someone has probably floated it at Harry’s. A greater volume of talk from more reliable sources, though, is indicating that the former […]

Bruce RitchieApril 21, 2015

The Florida House on Tuesday voted down bill amendments that would have repealed or scaled back a 2006 state law that allows utilities to charge in advance for nuclear power plants that may never be built. HB 7109 is a bill that establishes term limits for Public Service Commission members and provides for Duke Energy […]

Bruce RitchieApril 13, 2015

Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey Jr. on Monday urged legislators to take action to protect Florida’s electric grid from a terrorist or foreign military attack. Woolsey, who was CIA director from 1993 to 1995 under then-President Bill Clinton, spoke Monday during a House legislative working group meeting about the threat of electromagnetic pulse weapons that could […]

Associated PressMarch 18, 2015

State Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda says she favors allowing guns on Florida university campuses because she once used her gun as a student to prevent being raped. The Democrat from Tallahassee told her story Wednesday in the House Higher Education & Workforce Subcommittee as it approved a contentious bill, HB 4005, allowing concealed weapons permit […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 22, 2015

Florida House Democrats Dwight Dudley and Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda have been battling for years to repeal the state’s nuclear cost recovery fees, to absolutely no success in Tallahassee. Or much GOP support. But that’s changing in 2015. In yet another indication of how Pinellas County Republican lawmakers got the message last fall from their constituents last year that […]

Mitch PerryDecember 1, 2014

Governor Rick Scott on Monday signed a death warrant for 42-year old Johnny Shane Normandy, who was found guilty of committing first-degree murder and sexual battery during a home-invasion robbery in 1993 in Escambia County. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection on January 15. The execution would be the 21st in the Rick […]

Guest AuthorAugust 26, 2013

In 1988, Florida House Clerk John Phelps and Senate Secretary Joe Brown flipped a coin to determine which chamber would file odd numbered bills, and which even. The House got odds, and have since owned bill number one. For 2014, HB 1 is claimed by Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda with a well-intentioned but misguided measure […]

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Attorney James Messer becomes first Republican to file in HD 9

Look for Loranne Ausley to soon announce bid for House District 9

Democrats’ amendments repealing nuclear fees voted down

Former CIA director urges legislators to prepare for attacks on electric grid

House member tells story of using gun to prevent rape

Another Pinellas Republican files bill to repeal nuclear cost recovery fee

Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda once again files legislation to end the death penalty

Karen Cyphers: Time to feed people, not fears: the case against HB 1