A.G. GancarskiJuly 8, 2024
4min0
'It's not like it comes and that's one night and goes away.'
Tag: Parkinson’s Disease
A.G. GancarskiJuly 8, 2024
Jesse SchecknerMarch 18, 2023
7min0
Temporary allowances during the pandemic and after Hurricane Ian didn't lead to 'any problems,' the bill's Republican sponsor said.
Scott PowersJanuary 5, 2022
4min1564
Far more Floridians died in 2021 and in 2020 than before the pandemic.
Joe ReedyApril 14, 2017
5min459
Florida’s voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment in November that formally legalized medical marijuana for chronic pain and other ailments, but with less than a month to go in their session, Florida legislators remain far apart on how to implement it. Bills in the Senate and House don’t agree on the details of expanding access […]
Associated PressDecember 11, 2016
5min260
Former Attorney General Janet Reno, the first woman to hold the top Justice Department job who died last month, never took the easy way out when making the tougher decision was the right thing to do, ex-President Bill Clinton said at a memorial service Sunday. Clinton, who appointed Reno in 1993, told several hundred friends, […]
Jim RosicaNovember 30, 2016
4min394
State Rep. Larry Metz says Parkinson’s disease is “not going to affect (his) future.” Metz, a Yalaha Republican who represents House District 32 in Lake County, revealed his diagnosis during a Monday interview for an opening on the Florida Supreme Court. The 61-year-old, a lawyer in private practice, did not make the final cut. On Tuesday night, he told FloridaPolitics.com he didn’t “want […]
Martin DyckmanNovember 9, 2016
7min196
On the next to last morning of our nation’s most dreadful campaign, my wife questioned whether it’s possible to be a politician without losing one’s soul. As I started to name those I knew who had kept theirs, word came that my old friend Janet Reno had died. I rested my case. Her integrity ran […]
Mark FerruloAugust 6, 2015
5min205
In response to the recent video smear campaign aimed at discrediting Planned Parenthood, 39 Florida organizations representing doctors, working families, students, women’s advocates, retirees and religious leaders, and with supporters stretching from Key West to Pensacola, have stood up for the immense contribution Planned Parenthood has made toward expanding and protecting reproductive health care access […]
Mark FerruloAugust 5, 20155min203
In response to the recent video smear campaign aimed at discrediting Planned Parenthood, 39 Florida organizations representing doctors, working families, students, women’s advocates, retirees and religious leaders, and with supporters stretching from Key West to Pensacola, have stood up for the immense contribution Planned Parenthood has made toward expanding and protecting reproductive health care access […]
Guest AuthorOctober 7, 20148min159
First in a series. As Election Day approaches, the backers on both sides of the ballot initiative to make medical marijuana legal in Florida are getting fired up. It’s a battle of wits, money, compassion, money, politics and money and of course, the people who are donating the money to either pass or defeat Amendment […]