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Christine Jordan SextonJune 15, 2015

The “Spotlight Transparency Tour” starts in Tampa on Wednesday with at least two local hospital executives and Marty Makary, medical doctor and author of Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care, slated to address Gov. Rick Scott‘s blue ribbon commission on the subject. Makary, associate professor of health policy […]

Phil AmmannJune 15, 2015

Floridians will get a 10-day tax break on school supplies, computers and clothes under a more than $400 million tax cut package approved by the Florida Legislature. The Senate on Monday passed the tax cut bill by a 34-2 margin. The Florida House also approved it by a 91-2 margin and sent it to the […]

Phil AmmannJune 15, 2015

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp. will add another 130 high-paying jobs at its Cape Canaveral facility, providing another boost to the Central Florida high-tech-training sector. Gov. Rick Scott made the jobs announcement today from France while attending a trade mission at the annual International Paris Airshow. “We’re here in Paris to make sure aerospace and […]

Phil AmmannJune 14, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott announced on Friday nine appointments to a variety of state boards and commissions. Broward College District Board of Trustees Scott began by naming David Maymon to the Broward College District Board of Trustees. Maymon, 38, of Fort Lauderdale, has been the owner of Advocate Home Care since 2007. He previously served on […]

Phil AmmannJune 13, 2015

After the Florida Senate’s inability to consider reappointments by the 2015 Regular Legislative Session sine die, Gov. Rick Scott announced 112 reappointments to various boards and commissions throughout the state, including these from the Tampa Bay region: Board of Athletic Training Brian Hudson, 51, of St. Petersburg, is vice president of sales and marketing for […]

Mitch PerryJune 13, 2015

Among the headlines of a just-released review on what happened to Florida Democrats in 2014 is a familiar woe: a lack of financial resources to compete with the Republican Party. The report from the Leadership Expansion to Advance Democrats (LEAD) task force is scheduled to be released to the public on Sunday, but the Florida […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 13, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott traveled to Paris on Friday aiming to bring back to his home state economic development projects. But while Scott is away House and Senate budget negotiators have reached a deal to give the governor considerably less money than he wanted for business recruitment. Sen. Tom Lee and Rep. Richard Corcoran on Saturday […]

Melissa RossJune 12, 2015

Later this month we’ll learn U.S. Supreme Court decisions on two of the highest-profile cases in years, maybe even decades: Obergefell v. Hodges, the same-sex marriage case, and King v. Burwell, the decision about whether to uphold or invalidate a provision of the Affordable Care Act. High court watchers tell FloridaPolitics.com that the odds of […]

Mitch PerryJune 12, 2015

Thirty-eights years after Anita Bryant, Florida no longer officially bans gays from adopting children. Although it’s been legal for such couples to adopt since 2010, Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill into law Thursday night that now makes that official. The issue roiled social conservatives in and outside of the Legislature this spring. The inclusion of […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 11, 2015

On Thursday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 1309 into law, a measure that requires publicly funded retirement plans to use mortality tables consistent with those used by the Florida Retirement System. The Florida Protection of Public Employee Benefits Act requires actuarial reports to be submitted every three years by the administrators of public pension plans, of […]

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Family members appear behind a pile of debris outside their home in Steinhatchee, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, after Hurricane Helene slammed Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 storm Thursday night. (Ashleigh Lucas/WUFT News)

Physician-writer to help debut health care panel’s traveling “transparency tour”

Florida Legislature OKs more than $400 million in tax cuts

Lockheed Martin to add 130 jobs at Cape Canaveral

Gov. Scott announces nine board appointments

Rick Scott announces long list of Tampa Bay-area board appointments

Florida Democratic Party establishment discusses task force report

As Rick Scott travels to Paris, lawmakers inch closer to final budget

SCOTUS and the ACA: “The scramble in Florida will get even more intense”

Mitch Perry Report for 6.12.15 — On this LGBT issue, Florida and Rick Scott resist social conservative pressures

Gov. Scott signs mortality table bill into law for public pensions