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Danny McAuliffeFebruary 21, 2018

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Facing the state’s head honcho, kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas shared their policy suggestions in the wake of the massacre at their school, and Gov. Rick Scott seemed to have listened, according to one student. “It went better than I expected it was going to go,” Sofie Whitney, an 18-year-old senior at Stoneman Douglas, told […]

Jim RosicaFebruary 21, 2018

House Speaker Richard Corcoran told a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas students Wednesday “how guns are treated is absolutely on the table” for bills that are in the works. Corcoran, a Land O’ Lakes Republican, and other House members met with dozens of teens who attend the Broward County high school in a midday meeting […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 21, 2018

A Libertarian candidate for Governor briefly took an unusual and assuredly controversial position regarding the mass murder in Parkland last week. Then he retracted the position. First by deleting the posts alleging that one survivor was a “crisis actor.” Then by giving us, hours after we asked for comment, a four word statement. “I was […]

Scott PowersFebruary 21, 2018

Orlando lawyer John Morgan, who earned national leadership credibility as a proponent for marijuana while leading the approval of medical marijuana in Florida and nearly ran for governor, has blasted childhood vaccines and mood stabilizing medications for creating “monsters,” and linked the prospect to the Parkland shooter. Morgan sent out a flurry of tweets on […]

Danny McAuliffeFebruary 20, 2018

With just two weeks left in Session, Gov. Rick Scott will deliver to legislators a proposal on Friday that is expected to address a series of issues identified in the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The announcement came after Scott held a public roundtable discussion, where he was […]

Jim RosicaFebruary 20, 2018

House Speaker-designate José Oliva on Tuesday didn’t quite put the nail in the coffin for a gambling bill this Session—but he’s holding the hammer. The reason: Lawmakers, overrun by events, are running out of time. With less than three weeks left in the 2018 Legislative Session, the House and Senate are scrambling to come up with […]

Scott PowersFebruary 20, 2018

The campaign of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King is sponsoring buses to transport gun-law advocates from St. Petersburg and Orlando to a rally in Tallahassee Wednesday, and the campaign of his rival candidate Philip Levine announced Tuesday it would be doing something similar next Monday. King, a Winter Park businessman, will be joining protesters on […]

Scott PowersFebruary 20, 2018

Before all of the 17 funerals are even held for victims of last Wednesday’s school massacre in Parkland, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine has launched a new television commercial promising to pursue a ban of assault weapons and declaring the shooting at Stonewall Douglas High School “a wakeup call we can’t ignore.” Levine’s political committee […]

Danny McAuliffeFebruary 20, 2018

In the wake of the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, some lawmakers plan to exempt photos and videos of school shootings from public records laws. The plan has yet to be codified into a bill, but legislators reached a verbal agreement on Tuesday at the final Senate Criminal Justice Committee meeting […]

Scott PowersFebruary 20, 2018

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has seen a lot of gun massacres come and go, and, as former chair of the Democratic National Committee, a lot of gun bills come and vanish, but she told the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida Tuesday morning she’s convinced that what follows the Parkland massacre last Wednesday will […]

Tag: Parkland

Rick Scott, Parkland students talk policy behind closed doors

Richard Corcoran to teens: Gun legislation ‘on the table’

Gubernatorial candidate Randy Wiseman says his Parkland ‘crisis actor’ posts were in error

John Morgan questions whether vaccines, childhood mood drugs create ‘monsters’

Rick Scott to unveil Parkland-inspired proposal for Legislature

José Oliva’s hopes for gambling resolution plummet

Chris King, Philip Levine both busing to gun-reform rallies in Tallahassee

Philip Levine launches campaign commercial citing Parkland massacre

Graphic school shooting images, footage could soon be exempted from public records

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Parkland shooting will be different this year in guns, politics