A.G. GancarskiAugust 7, 2023
3min0
The Governor's pivot toward economic populism continues.
Tag: populismTALLAHASSEE, FLA. 3/4/25-Gov. Ron DeSantis, right, shares a laugh with Rep. Lawrence McClure, R-Dover, as he enters the House Chamber to give the State of the State address on the opening day of the 2025 Legislative Session, Tuesday at the Capitol in Tallahassee.
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A.G. GancarskiAugust 7, 2023
Associated PressApril 30, 2022
10min0
Some are skeptical and raising concerns about the merits of such a ban and the logistics of enforcing it.
Ryan RayApril 23, 2016
5min411
Rep. Matt Gaetz knows voters are angry. He’s angry too. Invective against “spineless politicians” and “lawless bureaucrats” peppered the Ft. Walton Beach Republican’s campaign kick off tour around Northwest Florida on Saturday. The 33-year-old lawmaker is seeking to succeed U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, whose announced retirement from Congress has set off a chain reaction of electoral maneuvering across […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 7, 2015
4min251
Today is the U.S. Labor Day. It’s not, by the way, American Labor Day. People in other countries on the two American continents celebrate workers on other days in other ways. But today is our Labor Day and I, like many of you, have received from a politician a peppy greeting of Happy Labor Day […]
Ryan RayJuly 24, 2015
4min223
House District 49 Democratic candidate Carlos Guillermo Smith announced to a rally of fast food workers he will stand with them in gesture of solidarity by agreeing to temporarily live on Florida’s minimum wage $8.05 an hour. The move, which liberal legislators such as Sen. Dwight Bullard and Rep. Cynthia Stafford have mirrored in the past, comes amid […]
Daniel TilsonJuly 7, 2015
5min223
Dog Days of Summer, indeed. For lots of Major League Baseball fans like me, that describes the sultry stretch of the six-month regular season when many a contending team has historically succumbed to accumulated stress, fallen into a slump and out of contention. For other folks, that phrase describes any prolonged stretch of steamy summertime […]