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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 […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 20, 2018

The race between incumbent U.S. Rep. Al Lawson and former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown, as of this week, is focused on the issue of guns. On Monday, Brown’s team found daylight between Lawson’s post-Parkland assertion “decrying ‘the stranglehold of the gun lobby'” and taking $2,500 from the political action committee of the National Rifle Association in August 2017. […]

Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2018

The League of Women Voters of Florida led a coalition of groups responding to last week’s Parkland mass shooting by urging the Florida Constitution Revision Commission to take up a proposed amendment to ban assault weapons. But at the commission’s second public hearing on its 37 proposals, held at the Maxwell C. King Center in […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 19, 2018

In “Posse Comitatus,” the third season finale of The West Wing, President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) heads to New York to take in “The Wars of the Roses.” So does Bob Ritchie (James Brolin, playing a three-term Florida Governor and the Republican nominee in the 2002 presidential election) — only Ritchie is there to see a Yankee […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 19, 2018

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And there it is. The look. The look I knew I would see. And I will get it again and again, from this moment forward. I just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly. As my family checked in to our hotel tonight, after two nights of choppy, if any sleep, countless hours spent wandering […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 19, 2018

The world was shocked last week when a gunman took an Uber to his former high school in Parkland, Florida, and shot dozens of former classmates. Seventeen perished. Many more were wounded. And everyone in the school that day lived through an unimaginable terror. And, across the country and the world, people are doing what […]

Tag: Parkland

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

On guns, Al Lawson is not an orthodox Democrat

League of Women Voters urges gun ban amendment, Carlos Beruff dismisses it

Ron DeSantis appeared on Fox News for 11 minutes, didn’t once mention Parkland

Jill Beitscher Fox: ‘The look’

Jacksonville fundraiser for Parkland victims slated for Thursday