Members, bills are dying.
Those four words --- or something like them --- have long been used by legislative committee chairmen and presiding officers to try to get lawmakers to focus on the task at hand or to move quickly through contentious agendas. The line also happens to fit what starts happening as the session enters its second half.
On Saturday, the Republican presidential race turns to South Carolina, which has played a pivotal role in determining the GOP’s presidential nominee in recent elections.
Would the Legislature include more average Floridians if the job paid more?
That was the idea behind a bill (SB 712), pitched this week by outgoing Senate Minority Leader Arthenia Joyner. The bill would have increased most lawmakers' pay by more than $20,000, to $50,000. The Senate president and the House speaker --- who already make more than their colleagues --- would have seen a smaller boost but still pulled in a higher income, at $57,000.
Marco Rubio’s campaign team is furious with Ted Cruz after the Texas senator’s campaign team released an altered photo portraying a gleeful Rubio shaking hands with President Barack Obama.
Despite the tourism squabbles between casinos and family theme parks, Florida is virtually unbeatable in one category of travelers' favorites: beaches.
Advocates of free market economics and limited government split on Thursday over Gov. Rick Scott’s call for increasing the funding for Enterprise Florida to lure businesses to the Sunshine State.
More than 100 million tourists came to the Sunshine State last year, Gov. Rick Scott announced on Thursday.
The legislative battle over charter schools kicked into high gear Wednesday, as measures dealing with educational choice advanced in the House and the League of Women Voters hammered a constitutional amendment that could increase the number of charters in Florida.
Of several education bills that landed on the House floor Wednesday, some of the sharpest debate centered on legislation (HB 7029) that would tighten accountability for charter schools in exchange for relaxing some limits on how often high-performing charter providers can open new facilities.
Rest in peace. Open carry is officially dead in Florida -- at least for now.
The Florida House of Representatives will take up a proposal to ban balance billing in the Sunshine State after a House committee approved the measure -- its last stop before the House floor -- Wednesday.
