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Michael MolineFebruary 15, 2017

State attorneys and public defenders face off in court, but they agreed on one thing during a meeting Wednesday of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice: Their staff attorneys need pay raises. Trouble is, committee chairman Aaron Bean isn’t convinced there’ll be enough money to pay for that, as much as he sympathizes. […]

Associated PressDecember 7, 2016

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is ending a holiday tradition this year: Giving state workers an extra day off. A spokeswoman for Scott said Tuesday that the governor will not be closing state offices an additional day around the Christmas holiday. Scott for five straight years had ordered state offices to be closed an extra day […]

Florence SnyderNovember 9, 2016

It’s Morning After in America, and the recriminations are well underway. Even with a crappy crystal ball like Larry Sabato‘s, you can predict the Democrats will assemble an Autopsy Committee like the one the Republicans did in 2012. Old habits die hard. Bleary-eyed pundits, pollsters, pols, and political reporters are crying into their beers and […]

Michael MolineSeptember 1, 2016

How serious is Tropical Storm Hermine? Gov. Rick Scott said the words “life threatening” five times Thursday during a 15-minute press briefing at the state’s Emergency Operations Center. He wanted, he said, to impress on Floridians jaded by a decade without major storms, or new to the state, or visiting, that this thing could kill […]

Ryan RayMarch 6, 2016

Senior legislative budget writers met Sunday afternoon to continue hammering out differences in Florida House and Senate appropriations proposals, still hundreds of millions of dollars apart. In keeping with their recent meetings since committee sub-chairs “bumped up” remaining budget issues to the at-large budget conference, Chairman Rep. Richard Corcoran and Vice Chairman Sen. Tom Lee – their respective chambers’ […]

Peter SchorschDecember 23, 2015

State workers are getting Christmas Eve off as a paid holiday. For the fifth year in a row, Gov. Rick Scott has directed state offices to be closed an extra day. This is the third time Scott has given state workers Christmas Eve off. Last year, employees had the day after Christmas off. In 2011 state employees […]

Marc YachtJuly 8, 2015

Walkin’ Lawton Chiles may be the last of Florida’s governors who cared about Florida through action. He showed genuine concern for local families. During his tenure, necessary human service programs expanded, the environment had effective regulatory programs, public health flourished with strong programs regulating food service, sanitation, infectious disease, and maternal and child health. I […]

Ryan RayApril 26, 2015

Cape Coral Rep. Dane Eagle says he’s steadily moving his 2015 legislative agenda through the House, amid a high volume of noise and conflict circling the Legislature in both chambers. “I am gratified by the support of my colleagues for this robust legislative agenda,” Eagle said in a prepared statement Friday . “These good measures […]

Tag: state workers

Lawyers for the state tell Senate committee they need pay raises, too

Rick Scott won’t give state workers extra day off for Christmas

Postcard from the center, which didn’t hold

Rick Scott closes state offices in 51 counties as Hermine looms [updated]

Budget conferees agree on general government, prison funding issues; bump state radios funds

Gov. Rick Scott gives state workers Christmas Eve off

Marc Yacht: Florida takes a slow, sad slide under Rick Scott

Dane Eagle moves priorities through House