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Scott PowersApril 8, 2016

The Tampa Bay Times “Failure Factories” series of stories investigating how the Pinellas County School District served black students has won a prestigious national IRE Medal for investigative reporting, the international journalism organization Investigative Reporters and Editors announced. The Times project, published in three parts plus a prologue last August, explored what is described in the […]

Peter SchorschApril 5, 2016

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray and Jim Rosica. The polls show Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders to be the leaders going into tonight’s Wisconsin Primary presidential election, but nothing appears to be certain in the day’s only election contest. Coming off what […]

Jim RosicaJanuary 14, 2016

Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s office is getting more time to prepare legal arguments in a case over whether certain Florida dog and horse tracks can offer slot machines to guests. The Florida Supreme Court granted the request Wednesday, giving her lawyers another month to turn in their brief. Bondi’s office, specifically Solicitor General Allen Winsor, is representing […]

Ryan RayOctober 27, 2015

CFO Jeff Atwater kicked off the Florida Chamber of Commerce‘s annual Insurance Summit convention in Orlando Monday with a message of optimism Citing a list of past successes for state insurers including reforms to the state workers’ compensation regime back in 2003 (“I thought that was a busy summer!” he noted wryly, referring to the Tallahassee budget travails of this year), Atwater told the […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2015

Heart, hypertension, and workers’ compensation were talkers in Jacksonville City Council chambers on Friday at the Finance Committee’s budget hearings. About 82 percent of heart and hypertension and worker’s comp claims are coming from the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. “In the past, the problem was that JSO and JFRD […]

Associated PressJuly 16, 2015

Presidential contender Jeb Bush used the ride-sharing service Uber to arrive Thursday at a startup where he was expected to talk up the benefits of small business and entrepreneurship as part of a fundraising swing through the San Francisco Bay Area. Bush pulled up at Thumbtack headquarters in the front seat of a black Toyota […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 10, 2015

There’s infighting among the “business” ranks this session on the health care front. By the second week of session it’s clear that National Federation of Independent Business, Florida; the Florida Chamber; and Associated Industries of Florida differ on how Florida should approach the loss of federal Medicaid finding that’s used to pay hospitals and federally […]

Christine Jordan SextonNovember 5, 2014

The Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case today that asks the justices to decide whether the fee caps in the state’s workers compensation laws are legal. The high-profile case is Castellanos v. Next Door Company and it is slated to be heard at 9 a.m. in the Supreme Court building in […]

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Tampa Bay Times investigation into Pinellas schools wins IRE national investigative reporting prize

Sunburn for April 5: On, Wisconsin

Pam Bondi granted more time to prep for slot machine case

Jeff Atwater kicks-off Florida Chamber’s Insurance Summit with message of optimism

Heart, hypertension, workers’ comp issues of concern in Jax budget process

Jeb Bush rides Uber to San Francisco startup

Business leaders find no unity on health care this session

Are fee caps legal? Supreme Court hears workers comp case today