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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Happy Friday, y'all. Let's get to what's happening in the news of health care this week.
Last week, President Trump delivered a State of the Union address that won the approval of 75 percent of viewers, including 43 percent of Democrats. Normally, presidents try to ride the wave from a successful State of the Union as long as they can.
During his early days in office, Gov. Rick Scott convinced the Legislature that Florida would reduce prison costs by $1 million if it privatized services and competitively bid healthcare contracts.
The people who are/were behind the smear campaign against Andrew Gillum have to be crying to country music right now.
Talk about a misnomer. The inappropriately named "Campus Free Expression Act," approved Tuesday by a 7-4 vote of the Florida Senate Education Committee, would offer students about as much freedom as a prison yard.
The Florida Legislature is a remarkable institutional setting for the great philosophical debates that occupy the time of our elected officials -- except when it isn’t.
Once a ubiquitous and tanned presence in Florida politics, Charlie Crist still has a job in politics, but it looks sadly as if he's dropped to the bottom rung of political power.
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes was worried, but not about the unpleasantness that had begun the previous year and would linger long enough to become known as the Great Depression. What troubled the British economist was that humanity "is solving its economic problem."
The Lake Point lawsuit against Maggy Hurchalla, a former Martin County commissioner and environmental activist, alleging she interfered with the western Martin rock mine's contracts, finally … finally … goes to trial Monday. The county has endured five years of legal wrangling, accompanied by the choreographed hand-wringing and inflammatory remarks by Hurchalla groupies to get to this point.
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By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said on Friday he will soon unveil a bill making the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) increase security efforts at airports across the nation.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy’s, D-Fla., team fired away at 2016 rival U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., after U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, backed the Florida Republican.
By Kevin Derby
Now making a second try at the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., said on Thursday that the San Bernardino mass shootings was the result of Islamic terrorism and called on President Barack Obama to call it such.
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Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart has been diagnosed with breast cancer, according to a press release sent Thursday from the Florida Department of Education.
By Kevin Derby
On Thursday afternoon, responding to the mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, Gov. Rick Scott ordered flags across Florida to be flown at half-staff until sunset on Monday.
By Kevin Derby
On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, endorsed U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., in the race to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016.
By Kevin Derby
Pointing to numbers from Help Wanted OnLine, Gov. Rick Scott noted that there were more than 299,500 job openings across Florida.
By Kevin Derby
Consumer confidence is on the rise in Florida, according to the state Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO).
By Kevin Derby
Former U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Fla., the president and CEO of the Associated Industries of Florida (AIF), applauded Gov. Rick Scott’s budget proposal on Wednesday.
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The world-renown Art Basel kicks off in Miami this week, drawing artists, art appreciators and celebrities alike, but the weeklong art festival will also bring in big bucks for politicians hosting fundraisers in the Magic City.
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