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A.G. GancarskiMay 21, 2015

In the aftermath of her loss of the Jacksonville District 2 City Council race to Republican Al Ferraro, Democrat Lisa King took to Facebook to issue some observations. “I went into this race knowing the mountain I had to climb in getting people to look beyond party identification to qualifications and experience was steep. But there were so […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 20, 2015

Members of Rick Scott’s blue-ribbon health care commission swam in data Wednesday, but they made clear they want more information and took aim at hospitals for not voluntarily providing all the information requested of them. Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding member Marili Cancio Johnson asked the panel’s staff to list hospitals that didn’t respond […]

Diane RobertsMay 20, 2015

It’s tempting to take a break from the 83-car pileup that is Florida government and amuse ourselves with, say, the festival of unseemliness that is former Congressman Alan Grayson who, when he’s not accusing the Tampa Bay Times’s Political Editor of being a robot with bowel issues (I paraphrase, for which you should thank me), […]

Guest AuthorMay 20, 2015

On June 24 the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will vote on a proposal to open a trophy hunt on Florida’s unique subspecies of black bears. They were removed from the list of threatened species just three years ago. The trouble is, the commission does not have enough information to make that decision, and […]

Mitch PerryMay 20, 2015

As state lawmakers prepare to complete their unfinished business in a Special Session next month, among the Legislature’s most important members said Wednesday he’s not exactly sure what to expect. The 120-member Legislature returns to Tallahassee in 12 days to hammer out a budget agreement. “We really don’t know how this is going to play […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 20, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott was in Tallahassee on Wednesday but he made no appearance at the inaugural meeting of the Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding. The governor made a brief telephone call thanking the nine commission members for agreeing to serve on the panel. He then told them that their focus was examining the role […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 20, 2015

The much-written about Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding holds its inaugural meeting in Tallahassee on Wednesday. Gov. Rick Scott, a former healthcare and hospital executive, has spent much of his time in the three weeks since lawmakers left town focusing on building a continuation base budget and negotiating with and suing the federal government over supplemental Medicaid […]

Associated PressMay 20, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott‘s new hospital commission consists of Republican donors and business leaders who will likely help him go after some of the state’s hospitals as the standoff over Medicaid expansion intensifies. The panel, which meets for the first time Wednesday, is beginning its work while the governor has become increasingly antagonistic toward hospitals that […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 19, 2015

The for-profit hospital chain Hospital Corporation of America is asking Gov. Rick Scott to raise taxes on hospitals. Presidents from the four HCA hospital regions in Florida sent a letter to Scott regarding the Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding saying that the Low Income Pool is not a long-term solution and that Scott should […]

Daniel TilsonMay 19, 2015

Simplicity is always in season for some politicians. Cherry-picking what information to share with the public is part and parcel of how some of our most powerful elected officials – Gov. Rick Scott, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli and House Budget Chair Richard Corcoran, to name a few – do government business. You may think the […]

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Lisa King talks about her Jax District 2 loss

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Jennifer Place and Kate MacFall: Allowing black bear hunting is “bad public policy”

Tom Lee on Tallahassee budget impasse: “We don’t know how this is going to play out”

Rick Scott tells hospital panel to focus on health care costs borne by taxpayers

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Rick Scott’s hospital commission to meet first time

For-profit hospitals ask Rick Scott to increase taxes on them

Daniel Tilson: Gov. Rick Scott puts KISS principle to work in healthcare debate