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Rick Scott Looks to Lure Jobs from Connecticut

Gov. Rick Scott is looking to lure jobs from Connecticut after that state raised taxes by $1.2 billion. Earlier this month, reports emerged that General Electric (GE) was looking at getting out of the Constitution State after the latest tax hikes from Hartford.

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Joe Gruters Rounds Up Leading Republicans to Back State House Bid

June 22, 2015 - 9:30am
Joe Gruters

GOP leader Joe Gruters is running for the Florida House in 2016 and is drawing the support of the some of the leading Republicans in the Sunshine State. 

Gruters, the current vice chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), filed earlier this month to run for the House seat currently held by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, who is expected to run for the Florida Senate seat currently held by Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, who is expected to run for country office. On Friday, Gruters played up his Republican credentials in an email to supporters. 

AFP: Florida Legislature Did Well on Tax Cuts, Killing Medicaid Expansion

On Friday night, Chris Hudson, the director of the Florida chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP), offered his take on the completed special session in Tallahassee, including the $79 billion budget passed by the Legislature and ensuring Medicaid expansion did not go through. 

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Barack Obama Underwater in Florida But Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson in Solid Shape

June 22, 2015 - 6:30am

Despite carrying Florida twice, President Barack Obama remains underwater in the Sunshine State, a new poll shows. 

Quinnipiac University released a poll on Monday morning which finds a majority of those surveyed -- 51 percent -- disapprove of Obama while 43 percent approve of his performance in the White House. Florida is expected to be a swing state in next year’s presidential election. Only 5 percent are not sure how they feel about Obama. 

Senate Candidates Remain Largely Unknown, Poll Shows

June 22, 2015 - 6:15am
Ron DeSantis and Patrick Murphy

A new poll shows Democrats start off with the early advantage in the race to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016 but the top candidates remain largely unknown. Rubio is running for the Republican presidential nomination and has said he will not run for a second Senate term in 2016. 

A Time to Grieve

June 22, 2015 - 7:00am

Unspeakable, unimaginable, incomprehensible and unthinkable are the words we've heard and used to describe the horrific murders of nine African-Americans as they prayed in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, shot by a hate-filled racist on a genocidal purge.

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Jeb's the Front-runner and Everybody Knows It

June 21, 2015 - 11:00pm
I Beg to Differ

You know the Republicans have a clear presidential front-runner when every liberal news source in the nation is trashing him. I'm talking about Jeb Bush.

Every day I look at the headlines:

Special Session Shows Rick Scott's No Lame Duck Yet

June 21, 2015 - 10:30am

Now that the special session in Tallahassee is over, Rick Scott will be taking a bow. On Monday, Scott will be criss-crossing Florida with seven stops on his “Tax Cut Victory Tour.”

Greatest Threat to the Everglades? Maybe Not Pythons

June 21, 2015 - 9:00pm
Old World Climbing Fern

A deceptively deadly force is slithering its way through the Florida Everglades. Sinuous and stealthy, this invasive species is one of the greatest threats to the ecosystem. And it’s not a python.

Old World climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum, is arguably the worst of many invasive species in the Everglades.

“It grows quickly, spreads easily, and is changing the entire ecosystem,” says Kristina Serbesoff-King, the associate director of conservation for the Conservancy’s Florida chapter.

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