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Jim RosicaFebruary 21, 2017

A measure to increase the ban from two years to six years on former lawmakers and statewide elected officers lobbying their colleagues after leaving office is now cleared to be considered by the full House of Representatives. The House Rules and Policy Committee OK’d the measure (HJR 7001) unanimously on Tuesday. As its second and final review […]

Associated PressJuly 28, 2016

As most Democrats rally around Hillary Clinton, the lingering “Bernie or Bust” movement is stirring frustration at the party’s convention among delegates of color, who say they’re upset at the refusal of the Vermont senator’s most fervent backers to fall in line. “I am so exhausted by it,” said Danielle Adams, a black Clinton delegate […]

Associated PressMarch 15, 2016

Republicans Marco Rubio and John Kasich are fighting for their political futures Tuesday, desperate for wins in their home states of Florida and Ohio to keep their White House hopes alive and complicate Donald Trump’s path to the nomination. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is hoping to keep rival Bernie Sanders from building new momentum in […]

Phil AmmannFebruary 10, 2016

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, […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 7, 2016

Last Tuesday night, the Duval County School Board voted unanimously to build a laboratory school on Jacksonville’s west side for children with autism. Parent reaction to the Oak Hill Autism Lab School proposal has ranged from skepticism to outrage. That’s no surprise, given Duval’s record in serving students with disabilities. Even in schools where administrators […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 23, 2015

According to reports from the Cuban Patriotic Union or UNPACU, about 200 dissidents were arrested in Cuba on Sunday. That’s at least the second major roundup of activists that has occurred since President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. and Cuba would begin to normalize relations in December, and prompted U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio on […]

Guest AuthorAugust 24, 2014

Florida was lucky that Trayvon Martin’s killing in Sanford in February 2012 did not trigger a riot. But if we consider the anatomy of a riot, we’ll know that it wasn’t simply dumb luck — but the absence of destructive forces. First, the entire country, both black and white, grieved for Trayvon. Apart from some loony […]

Guest AuthorAugust 19, 2014

Ferguson is Florida redux. In Miami, in 1980, after four white police officers were acquitted by an all-male, all-white jury of killing Arthur McDuffie, an African-American, some of the worst race riots in America occurred. The violence that erupted went beyond the perceived injustice of the verdict and the particulars of the incident. (At trial, […]

Julie DelegalAugust 18, 2014

The police-shooting death of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, continues to bring citizens out of their homes and onto the streets. On August 9, 28-year-old Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black. The shooting itself was tragic enough. Police actions after the shooting, though, have made Ferguson […]

Guest AuthorAugust 14, 2014

The story in Ferguson, Missouri, is all too familiar, even callously so. A young, unarmed black man is shot by a white police officer. A frustrated community erupts in anger. While the details involving the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown are still being investigated, one fact is troubling and clear: Another casual encounter between […]

Tag: Missouri

House lobbying ban extension cleared for floor

Minority Dem delegates frustrated with ‘Bernie or Bust’

Marco Rubio, John Kasich fight to keep hopes alive

Justin Pearson: Legislature should pass important reforms to civil forfeiture laws

Julie Delegal: One Duval parent on autism lab school: Show me

Sunday arrest of Cuban dissidents fuels Marco Rubio rip on Obama administration

Rachel Patron: Ferguson, Missouri: The anatomy of a riot

Stephen Goldstein: Will Florida be another Ferguson?

Julie Delegal: Ferguson, Missouri: Police didn’t trust the system

Andrew J. Skerritt: Ferguson seems a case study of race and power gone wrong