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Christine Jordan SextonMarch 11, 2015

Health Policy Committee Chairman Aaron Bean and Vice Chairwoman Eleanor Sobel are working together on a Senate Medicaid expansion plan. The two are not agreed how it should be administered. Bean champions a little-known program called Florida Health Choices. Sobel has thrown her weight behind the better-known Florida Healthy Kids Corp., which administered the popular […]

Mitch PerryMarch 11, 2015

The conservative-leaning Florida House Wednesday OK’d an amendment to a bill to remove a ban on gay adoption from state law. The final vote was 68-50. The amendment is part of a larger bill that creates incentives for Floridians to adopt children in state care. The vote came despite a last hour pitch against it […]

Mitch PerryMarch 11, 2015

Guido Maniscalco says Jackie Toledo won’t debate him before the March 24 runoff election in the Tampa City Council District 6 race. This week Maniscalco’s campaign manger, Bryan Farris, sent a letter to Toledo’s home and emailed her campaign consultant, Anthony Pedicini, asking her to participate in a debate this Saturday. Farris says he gave […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 11, 2015

Shacking up in Florida can cost you. Living in sin is a crime that, if found guilty of, can show up on an employment background screening and can be used in child visitation procedures. Unmarried cohabitation has been in the state’s lewd-and-lascivious laws since the 1860s. The crime was included in the state’s Level II […]

Associated PressMarch 11, 2015

Nearly 8 million people could lose up to $24 billion a year in health insurance subsidies in a Supreme Court case threatening President Barack Obama‘s law, according to a government report released Tuesday. The estimates by The Associated Press show what’s at stake in the case. The biggest potential loser would be Florida, with nearly 1.5 […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorMarch 11, 2015

St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman announced plans Wednesday to expand one of the baseball fields at Walter Fuller Park into a small stadium used for International Baseball games and college games. The new stadium is intended to attract more baseball-related events to the area. “We believe that quality International and college baseball can serve as […]

James CallMarch 11, 2015

The Florida Senate’s creative use of music and a whimsical self-awareness among members of the Florida Cabinet were among the highlights of the 60th (Sometimes) Annual Capitol Press Corps Skits Tuesday night. Reporters and politicos lampooned each other with the House and Attorney General Pam Bondi paying Times reporter Michael Van Sickler maybe the profession’s […]

Mitch PerryMarch 11, 2015

One of the biggest criticisms coming out of Hillary Clinton‘s press conference on Tuesday was her admission that she opted to use a personal email account during her time as Secretary of State because, “I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.” […]

Mitch PerryMarch 11, 2015

One of the biggest criticisms coming out of Hillary Clinton‘s press conference on Tuesday was her admission that she opted to use a personal email account during her time as Secretary of State because, “I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.” […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 11, 2015

To abate a $6.9 million shortfall the Florida Department of Health has trimmed back from 22 to seven the number of Tallahassee staff administering the Early Steps program, which helps infants and toddlers with special health care needs. Department of Health Secretary John Armstrong told members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services […]

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If Florida Health Choices is a gift for Richard Corcoran, he'll return it

House OK on gay adoption has Christian right putting faith in Senate

Guido Maniscalco says Jackie Toledo ducking debate before Tampa runoff

Lewd and lascivious? Senate panel to reconsider living-in-sin ban

Florida has most to lose in Obamacare subsidy case

Rick Kriseman plans baseball stadium at Walter Fuller Park

Jose Oliva, Jeff Atwater, Senate stars of Capitol Press Corps Skits

Like Hillary Clinton, Bill Nelson says he’d rather carry just one phone

Like Hillary Clinton, Bill Nelson says he'd rather carry just one phone

DOH chief John Armstrong give update on Early Step programs, staff cuts