Tag: opinion

Guest AuthorMarch 5, 2015
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7min185
For decades casino lobbyists have tried to turn Florida into Las Vegas. However,  they have been turned back time and again by voters, legislators, governors and business groups who understand the toxic nature of gambling economics. Gambling lobbyists are back again, though, this time pushing for the biggest expansion of gambling in Florida’s history. There […]

Guest AuthorMarch 5, 2015
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7min127
For decades casino lobbyists have tried to turn Florida into Las Vegas. However,  they have been turned back time and again by voters, legislators, governors and business groups who understand the toxic nature of gambling economics. Gambling lobbyists are back again, though, this time pushing for the biggest expansion of gambling in Florida’s history. There […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 12, 2015
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5min210
It’s not every day that a divorce lawyer reports her own client to the state child abuse hotline. But that’s what John Jonchuck‘s lawyer did. On Jan. 7, Jonchuck showed up at the firm’s office dressed in pajamas, toting his 5-year-old daughter Phoebe, along with a Bible he incorrectly believed to be written in Swedish. Jonchuck’s lawyer told the Hotline that her client was “out-of-his-mind […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 5, 2015
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5min153
One voice which was heard loud and clear at the Department of Health’s negotiated rulemaking committee was an individual without standing in the state Florida. Indeed, Joel Stanley dominated much of Wednesday’s conversation covering all issues from the importance of access to cannabis strains, to hiring chemists and other out of state experts with prior cannabis experience. […]


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