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A.G. GancarskiOctober 19, 2017

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The St. Johns County Legislative Delegation is slated to meet Friday morning at 9 a.m. at the St. Johns County Administration Building. Public comment, as is always the case, will feature prominently. As will the 2018 Legislative Action Plan. Much of what’s being asked for is familiar, such as transportation funding asks that were in play […]

Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2017

Heat may be rising among the millions of Floridians still without power, as 2.3 million homes and businesses head toward finishing a fourth full day without. The latest data from the Florida Office of Emergency Management show 22 percent of the state still was sweating out power outages at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, on what has […]

Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2017

Power outages continue to plague just over one quarter of all the homes and businesses in Florida, though the number fell to almost 2.7 million customers Thursday morning. A 6 a.m. update from the Florida Office of Emergency Management showed that those counties hit first and hardest by Hurricane Irma – Monroe, Collier and Lee […]

Scott PowersSeptember 13, 2017

Wednesday hundreds of thousands of Florida power customers got their lights turned back on but almost exactly one third of Florida is still waiting. The latest numbers from the Florida Office of Emergency management show 3.5 million customers still were without power at 3 p.m. Wednesday, representing 33.4 percent of all Florida homes and businesses. […]

Scott PowersSeptember 13, 2017

Electrical power restoration continued to be slow in hard-hit Lee and Collier counties yet most of Florida continued to struggle without electricity as 52 of 67 counties continue to have at least one in five homes and businesses still dark Wednesday morning. The latest electric outage numbers available from the state Office of Emergency Management, […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 31, 2017

Northeast Florida, like the rest of the state, waits for Gov. Rick Scott to review the budget from the Florida Legislature. Scott has been typically vague on his real disposition on the budget: the new-school “Veto Corleone” hasn’t ruled out a full-on veto, or line item vetoes. And in recent months, Gov. Scott has been […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 1, 2017

St. Johns County was dealt a harsh blow from Hurricane Matthew, with flooding in St. Augustine and its beaches, and devastation countywide. Recovery has a price tag. And, according to an appropriations request from Rep. Cyndi Stevenson at the request of the St. Johns County Commission, the state share of coastline recovery should be $47 million. The […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 23, 2017

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FloridaPolitics.com caught up with State Rep. Cyndi Stevenson this week at the St. Johns Legislative Delegation meeting. For Stevenson, a former county commissioner, it was a return to familiar ground. St. Johns County, the Republican said, “is becoming a more complete community,” which she believes is also “good for the region.” “We have over 200,000 people. […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 18, 2017

On Wednesday, the St. Johns County Commission presented its ambitious legislative action plan to the county’s legislative delegation in what is destined to be, in the words of Rep. Cyndi Stevenson, a “tough budget year.” The ambitious 73 page plan covers “transportation funding, water quality, beach renourishment, open space and land conservation grants, and unfunded state and […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 5, 2017

Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran may abhor the influence of lobbyists in Tallahassee. But Jacksonville and its independent agencies have them anyway, as do other regional entities in Northeast Florida. The calculus is not complicated for Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, who parlayed $150,000 last year into a sustained and successful lobbying effort helmed by the Fiorentino Group and […]

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Power update: 2.3 million homes and businesses still without

Power outages down to 2.7 million homes, businesses

Nearly half-million customers get power; one-third of Florida waits

Power update: Southwest Florida still without

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Cyndi Stevenson seeks $47 million for St. Johns County coastline recovery

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St. Johns Legislative Delegation hears county wish list

The Fiorentino Group helms Northeast Florida lobbying efforts again in 2017