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Christine Jordan SextonMay 11, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott‘s blue ribbon health care and hospital commission meets in two weeks but the governor’s office remains quiet on the appointments. Scott created the commission via executive order this past week. The order doesn’t mention how many members would be on the commission or whether any would be lawmakers but it did note […]

Bruce RitchieMay 10, 2015

A group calling itself ACF Stakeholders was formed in 2010 with great promise in trying to create consensus among the various user groups along the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint (ACF) rivers. But when the group meets in Florida next week, it should vote to disband. Because the river system and the people who depend on […]

Phil AmmannMay 10, 2015

America’s oldest city is slowly drowning. St. Augustine’s centuries-old Spanish fortress and other national landmarks sit feet from the encroaching Atlantic, whose waters already flood the city’s narrow, brick-paved streets about 10 times a year — a problem worsening as sea levels rise. The city has long relied on tourism, but visitors to the fortress […]

Daniel TilsonMay 10, 2015

I want to serve on Gov. Rick Scott’s Commission on Hospital and Healthcare Funding. I mean, poetic justice aside, I’m uniquely qualified to help the cause. Not the governor’s cause, not the crusade to turn Florida’s healthcare system into a hardcore conservative model for what could replace the Affordable Care Act after he’s helped elect […]

Bruce RitchieMay 10, 2015

A group calling itself ACF Stakeholders was formed in 2010 with great promise in trying to create consensus among the various user groups along the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint (ACF) rivers. But when the group meets in Florida next week, it should vote to disband. Because the river system and the people who depend on […]

Associated PressMay 9, 2015

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a longtime opponent of “Obamacare,” made a startling announcement shortly after his mother’s death, going on TV two years ago to explain that he had dropped his objections to President Barack Obama‘s health care overhaul. The Republican governor, a former hospital executive who entered politics running TV ads against the Affordable […]

Staff ReportsMay 8, 2015

Rick Scott‘s office came out fighting Friday after The Associated Press published a story saying that the governor “conceded” that his earlier support of a Medicaid expansion was a “ruse.” “The AP incorrectly characterized the governor’s comments,” said a news release issued by Scott’s Communications Director Jackie Schutz. Scott was asked by a reporter at […]

James CallMay 8, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott issued an executive order Friday to crack down on the violent culture within Florida’s prison system. The order includes provisions addressing safety and transparency and that hold guards, wardens and Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones accountable. Newspaper investigations have detailed a series of unexplained inmate deaths, allegations of retaliation against whistleblowers, […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 8, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to hospitals Friday advising them to begin working with his newly created hospital commission to prepare a trio of ways the industry can share $3.7 billion in profits so other hospitals can withstand the impending loss of federal Low Income Pool funding. Scott has asked the hospitals to send […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 8, 2015

In what is seemingly reminiscent of its 2010 case against Obamacare, Gov. Rick Scott’s lawsuit has picked up steam with Republican-led states. After verbally committing support governors from Kansas and Texas jointly filed friend-of-the-court briefs with the federal court in Pensacola on Friday. “Florida won a partial and very public victory against (the federal government) […]

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One of several proposed designs for Florida's new Margaritaville license plates. Image via the office of Rep. Linda Chaney.

Hospital meeting 2 weeks away; still no word on Rick Scott’s appointments

Bruce Ritchie: Enough secrecy! After voting on water plan, tri-state rivers group should vote to disband

Sea rise threatens Florida coast, but no statewide plan

Daniel Tilson: I want to be on Rick Scott's new healthcare commission

Bruce Ritchie: Enough secrecy! After voting on water plan, tri-state rivers group should vote to disband

Florida budget snarled as governor challenges ‘Obamacare’

Rick Scott defends Medicaid remarks, says he was “editorialized”

Governor reforms prisons with executive order

Rick Scott to hospitals: Come up with profit-sharing ideas by May 22

Republican states join Florida lawsuit challenging Obamacare … again