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Staff ReportsJanuary 15, 2018

Legislation expanding workers’ rights is being pushed by a pro-free market, limited government spending watchdog this Session. Americans for Prosperity-Florida recently launched a new direct mail piece encouraging Florida voters to support recent bills that would require unions to hold regular elections and obtain 50 percent of their actively paying dues members in order to […]

Danny McAuliffeJanuary 9, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott laid out his ambitions — which included cutting taxes, addressing problems created by hurricanes Irma and Maria, and expanding victims’ rights, among other things — during the State of the State speech in the Capitol building on Tuesday, but not too far away, a different, more intimate crowd listened to an alternative […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 12, 2017

A loophole in state law that allows the governor and cabinet to fundraise during the Legislative Session could close if a House bill passes. Dania Beach Democratic Rep. Evan Jenne filed HB 707 Tuesday, which would put the kibosh on executive branch members soliciting or accepting contributions during Session, either for one’s own campaign, one’s own […]

Ana CeballosDecember 11, 2017

If Chris King becomes governor, he wants committee weeks to be held throughout the state — and not exclusively at the Capitol. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate says he will champion legislation that would mandate committee weeks be held in “as many regions as possible” across the state to give constituents better access to state government. […]

Peter SchorschMay 9, 2017

Time to say goodbye. The Florida House Speaker’s Office, which has produced video after video this Legislative Session, it closed out 2017 Session with a three-minute video narrated by House Speaker Richard Corcoran. “I’m often asked, where are the leaders worthy of the title and I tell them they’re right here, in the Florida House,” Corcoran […]

Peter SchorschMay 8, 2015

So lawmakers are supposed to come back to Tallahassee on June 1. Sounds logical. The state constitution requires them to have a budget done by the end of the sixth month and what better time to get started than at its beginning? But there is this one itty bitty little problem: for the vast majority of members, […]

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