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Florence SnyderOctober 10, 2017

Eleven days ago, Gov. Rick Scott dropped a news release proposing a 10 percent pay raise for juvenile detention and juvenile probation officers. Today, the Miami Herald dropped its comprehensive carpet bomb on Scott’s Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). Maybe it’s a coincidence. The Herald’s book-length investigative series is a stomach-churning compilation of examples of […]

Mitch PerryOctober 10, 2017

A Florida House committee advanced legislation Tuesday that would replace a statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith with one of Mary McLeod Bethune in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. The House Government Accountability Committee passed the proposal offered by Daytona Beach Democrat Patrick Henry (HB 139) with just one dissenting vote (from Jacksonville Rep. Jay […]

Mitch PerryOctober 9, 2017

Former House Speaker Will Weatherford is endorsing Ardian Zika for the Pasco County-based House District 37 seat. “I’ve known Ardian Zika for the past decade, and he is absolutely the best person to represent District 37 as our State Representative,” said Weatherford in a statement. “Ardian’s story is one of hard work and dedication. He is proof that if you […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 6, 2017

The Florida citrus industry is in crisis post-Irma, with flooding having wrought a singular devastation to the crop and trees themselves. In the hopes of helping the imperiled citrus sector — specifically farmers whose groves suffered physical or economic damage during the storm — Florida Gov. Rick Scott Friday activated a $25 million Florida Citrus Emergency Loan […]

Phil AmmannOctober 6, 2017

Jacksonville politics are returning to normal after a wild summer that included a newly assertive City Council flexing its muscles over Mayor Lenny Curry’s budget, followed by impacts from Hurricane Irma that are only now receding. Politicians, as you will read below, are still working to pick up the pieces, as photo ops are now replaced […]

Mitch PerryOctober 6, 2017

Republican consultant Anthony Pedicini is the latest target of a negative mailer in the vitriolic House District 58 primary.

A.G. GancarskiOctober 4, 2017

In the wake of Hurricane Irma’s epic flooding last month, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam sounded a dire warning about Florida’s citrus crop. In Southwest Florida, 80 percent of an already diminished crop was lost, posing an “existential” threat to the sector, Putnam told WUSF last month. Gov. Scott talked to Putnam directly before a Jacksonville media availability […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 4, 2017

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been a valuable resource for the Trump Administration as they have grappled with the devastation in Puerto Rico. On Friday, for example, Scott talked to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence about what he saw when he went last week — a prelude to President Trump’s own visit. Yet Gov. […]

Mitch PerryOctober 2, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott Monday announced proposed legislation to prohibit the state, including all agencies, from investing in any company that is doing business with Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s government. The proposal comes six weeks after the state’s State Board of Administration, which maintains the Florida Retirement System and its $150 billion in assets, voted to reaffirm that they […]

Scott PowersOctober 2, 2017

Former Florida Department of Management Services secretary Jack Miles issued his endorsement Monday of Republican Stockton Reeves in the race for Florida’s House District 47 seat. Reeves, a Winter Park businessman, faces Democrat Anna Eskamani, a Planned Parenthood executive, in the 2018 election race to succeed state Rep. Mike Miller, a Republican who is running […]

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Florence Snyder: Rick Scott’s juvenile justice budget, a wet bandage for Stage 4 cancer

House committee advances bill to replace statue of Confederate general with that of Mary McLeod Bethune

Will Weatherford endorses Ardian Zika for HD 37 seat in 2018

Emergency loans coming for Florida citrus growers

Jacksonville Bold for 10.6.17 — After the storm

GOP consultant Anthony Pedicini subject of direct mail attack in bitter HD 58 race

Rick Scott addresses Florida’s citrus crisis

Rick Scott on Puerto Rico: ‘Whatever you need, we’ll be there for you’

Rick Scott proposes legislation banning business with Venezuela

Jack Miles endorses Stockton Reeves in HD 47 race