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Peter SchorschJune 3, 2016

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Lawyer-lobbyist Nicole “Nikki” Fried tells FloridaPolitics.com she’s leaving Colodny Fass to form her own South Florida influence shop. The new firm, to be called Igniting Florida, will be based in Fort Lauderdale. Fried now works in Sunrise. Fried, who’s become a go-to person in medical marijuana lobbying, will keep her clients. They include San Felasco […]

Mike SchneiderJune 2, 2016

A medical research organization that has received more than $350 million in public and private incentives says its Orlando facility’s long-term outlook is in doubt because federal research funding isn’t keeping pace with costs, and that’s why it asked the University of Florida to take over, according to a letter its leaders sent to Gov. […]

Scott PowersMay 26, 2016

If Florida’s top college football coaches actually ran Florida’s universities, life mentoring would begin the moment a student arrived and not end for years after he left. As that student makes his way from high school to finding his place in college, someone would be there to help. As that student strives to understand what might be important […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterApril 26, 2016

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The Zika virus may have been present in the Americas well before it was first identified in Brazil. Research by infectious disease specialists at the University of Florida found that the virus was present in Haiti several months before it was identified in Brazil. The virus was present in Haiti in December 2014 and Dr. […]

Jim RosicaApril 19, 2016

Senate President-designate Joe Negron is asking: What do state university students need? Had Negron stuck around a few minutes longer Monday on one leg of his “state university listening tour,” he might have heard one answer. Negron is barnstorming the state with fellow senators and other state officials, hitting 12 institutions of higher learning in four […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterApril 18, 2016

Senate President-Designate Joe Negron is heading back to college. Negron kicks off a four-day listening tour of Florida’s State University System on Monday. The Stuart Republican is expected to visit all 12 of the state universities during the listening tour. “Over the last several years, I have had the opportunity to discuss with fellow senators […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 30, 2016

Morteza “Mori” Hosseini is the newest member of the University of Florida Board of Trustees. On Wednesday, Gov. Rick Scott announced he had appointed the Daytona Beach homebuilder to the university’s governing board. His term begins immediately and ends Jan. 6, 2021. Hosseini, who was named one of the 100 most influential Floridians by INFLUENCE […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 21, 2016

The annual Extension Volunteer Recognition Program and Dinner of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural sciences will have a bit more political firepower in April than in some years. Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will address the group April 14 in its extension auditorium. The dinner acknowledges volunteers who have helped people though Extension […]

Diane RobertsMarch 7, 2016

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE — Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith is getting evicted from Statuary Hall. The Sons of Confederate Veterans are not happy. Sen. Don Gaetz, a native of that little-known Old South state of North Dakota, is not happy: “There is nothing in the bill analysis, nothing in the testimony, that tells us any reason why […]

Scott PowersMarch 7, 2016

The University of Central Florida has walked a careful path to line up support for what had been a controversial plan for a downtown Orlando campus, and now the university has everything but the governor’s signature. No one is taking that for granted, though. Over the weekend, with pushes from Senate President Andy Gardiner of […]

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Personnel note: Nikki Fried to open own firm

Sanford Burnham asks Rick Scott to let UF take over facility

If football coaches ran higher education: Trust, mentoring, ‘Chomp! Chomp!’

UF researchers: Zika present in Americas longer than previously thought

What Joe Negron needed to hear during his “State University Listening Tour”

Joe Negron kicks off State University listening tour

Mori Hosseini appointed to University of Florida board

Lenny Curry to address annual UF IFAS extension dinner

Diane Roberts: Let’s replace Confederate general with a statue of the “Florida Man”

With downtown campus funding in budget, UCF hopes it has satisfied Rick Scott