There’s a chink in Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan’s reputation as Florida’s champion for the $15 minimum wage.
After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton
You probably can't imagine how much fun I've had at Sunshine State News over the last 10 years. I don't think anybody could.
November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Two years ago, I sold one of the last American offshore drilling vessels to a foreign buyer. The Ocean Titan was an obsolete jack-up rig, an equipment platform for deepwater exploration and development. Over its forty-year lifespan, American shipbuilding had been ravaged by rivals abroad and burdensome regulations at home. Today, the industry falls grievously short of the hope expressed by the drafters of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920: “that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels.”
Twenty-five years ago on Nov. 3, 1992, William Jefferson Clinton was elected president of the United States -- and Hillary Clinton is still trying to take his place.
We saw milquetoast before in the form of Alex Sink. Heck, Gwen Graham actually reminds me of Sink, only Sink doesn’t run around saying, “Dad did this, and dad did that”.
Needing a victory to validate their majorities, congressional Republicans have chosen not to emulate Shakespeare's Henry V before Agincourt. He advocated stiffening the sinews, summoning up the blood and lending the eye a terrible aspect. The Republicans would rather define victory down.
On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took the Senate floor to urge expanding the child tax credit be included in its tax reform efforts. Rubio and U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, are backing legislation to expand the child tax credit. Rubio said the following on the Senate floor:
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive ourselves into believing that corporate welfare can be seemly. Consider the caper, both amusing and depressing, that began when mighty Boeing sought protection behind the skirts of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
What kind of wild world has just been revealed?
Latest to the vandals goes Teddy Roosevelt, whose bronze likeness astride a horse in front of New York's American Museum of Natural History recently received a splash of red paint upon its base.
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By Kevin Derby
The U.S. House Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Health held a roundtable on Tuesday and a Florida congressman made the case for the VA to embrace new technology, some of which was showcased at the event.
By Kevin Derby
Americans for Prosperity’s (AFP) Florida chapter came out swinging at members of the Florida congressional delegation who voted to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank this week.
By Kevin Derby
On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., expressed his opposition to the federal budget deal agreed on by President Barack Obama and the GOP leadership in charge of Congress.
By Kevin Derby
The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) launched a new Web video on Wednesday, taking aim at former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination.
By Kevin Derby
Running for the Republican nod to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., cheered Florida’s sanctions against Iran on Tuesday.
By Kevin Derby
Gov. Rick Scott is calling for almost $23 million in additional funding for the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF).
By Kevin Derby
Pointing to the death of University of Central Florida (UCF) student Chloe Arenas last year, state Sen. Darren Soto, D-Orlando, and state Rep. Rene “Coach P” Plasencia, R-Orlando, filed a bill to mandate the Florida Department of Transportation create guard rails where state roads border bodies of water where drivers have gone off the road and drowned over the last decade.
By Kevin Derby
On Tuesday, the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) named a new legislative director.
By Kevin Derby
While he did not call out former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton by name, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, insisted the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was facing major problems.
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Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist unveiled a new video for his latest campaign to head to Washington D.C. on Monday, pledging once again to be a man of the people if they send him to U.S. Congress.
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