Actors Guild fighting House de-reg effort
The Screen Actors Guild weighed in Monday opposing House legislation that would lift state oversight of a wide range of professions, including talent agents. Richard Masur, the chairman of the...
View ArticlePotty parity heads to history books
Potty parity in Florida would be wiped from the statute books, under legislation approved Wednesday by a House panel. Citing a need to undo excess regulation, Rep. Ana Logan, R-Miami, proposed the...
View ArticleSenate turns out the lights on electric rate hike
Legislation that would have given Florida Power & Light and other investor-owned utilities authority to raise customer rates to finance alternate energy projects appears dead for this session. The...
View ArticleThere goes ‘Swifty’: House OK’s no dog racing at dog tracks
Greyhound racetrack operators, including Palm Beach Kennel Club, could drop dog racing but still run more lucrative card rooms under a measure approved 86-31 Tuesday by the state House. Fans of...
View ArticleHouse overhauls environmental permitting in seven minutes
The House spent seven minutes amending, debating and voting on legislation Friday night that conservationists have condemned as one of the worst bills in decades for Florida’s environment and...
View ArticleSenate budget chief evokes ‘G’ word to make point: `Gators’
Football in Florida — especially University of Florida football — packs plenty of muscle in the state Legislature. So when Senate budget chief J.D. Alexander, R-Lake Wales, said the Senate was having...
View ArticleHouse Republicans revive enviros’ dreaded “burden of proof” and send to Scott
The House added a controversial environmental permit provision to an otherwise, routine rulemaking bill Thursday — reversing a stance adopted only days ago by ruling Republicans. The House voted 76-39...
View ArticleState budget awaiting Scott’s sig to cause pain before any gain, economists say
The $69.7 billion state budget now before Gov. Rick Scott will send tremors through Florida’s struggling economy, with school districts, hospitals and other big employers soon cutting jobs and programs...
View ArticleScott signs 48 bills, covering water, Medicaid and growth management
Gov. Rick Scott signed into law 48 bills Thursday, including measures that would add new muscle to Palm Beach County’s obscure Lake Worth Drainage District, overhaul Florida’s $22 billion Medicaid...
View ArticleFSU’s move into FAU turf sparks state universities’ civil war
When Florida State University agreed to bring its much-honored film school to West Palm Beach, it was a Hollywood-style story, glittering with images of students getting hands-on experience in...
View ArticleScott abides by court ruling; now only informally reviews rules, aide says
Less than two months after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Rick Scott could not require agencies to get his formal approval for rules they wanted to enact, a spokesperson said Wednesday the...
View ArticleScott rolls another ’7′, unveiling job creation and economic plan
Gov. Rick Scott laid out the “job creation and economic growth agenda” he’s been hinting at lately — a wide-ranging plan aimed at repealing more than 1,000 state rules and regulations, reducing the...
View ArticleScott turns into salesman-in-chief on jobs plan
A day after unveiling his latest seven-step themed plan – this one toward creating jobs and spurring economic development — Gov. Rick Scott turned into saleman-in-chief Thursday, pitching his plan at...
View ArticleGraham leads new Conservation Coalition seeking to revive state programs
Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham led a gathering of activists Wednesday calling for Gov. Rick Scott and legislative leaders to preserve the state’s water resources, while renewing its...
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