Welcome to The Dean's List -- an Ed Dean-style look at who Florida's political achievers were (and weren't) in the last seven days. What you see here is strictly my opinion, not necessarily the editor's or the rest of the staff at Sunshine State News.
Space Florida will be taking over the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Gov. Rick Scott announced on Monday.
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President Barack Obama signed the “Girls Count Act" into law on Friday. The bill from Republican presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., carves out funds from current foreign aid programs to create birth registries in underdeveloped countries.
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Businessman Todd Wilcox announced in Orlando on Friday that he is resigning his post as CEO of Patriot Capital to make an exploratory effort at running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2016. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who currently holds the seat, is running for the Republican presidential nomination and has said he will not run for a second Senate term
Speaking at an event held by Ernst and Young on Friday night, Wilcox ripped into the Democrats, including hitting President Barack Obama’s economic policies.
Lawmakers agreed on hundreds of millions of dollars in environmental spending during a meeting Sunday night, but disappointed supporters of a land and water conservation amendment overwhelmingly approved by voters last fall.
It had a familiar ring:
"I don't ever know what people's motives are," said former President Bill Clinton, prompting one to pause and consider just what the definition of "motives" is.
Indeed, one doesn't ever know. But when a country or a firm gives large sums of money to a charity founded by a former U.S. president, whose wife happens to be secretary of state, and whose department may be considering business related to said donor, then one would not likely infer purely altruistic motives.
In less than six weeks James E. Michalik, a children's advocate and former judge from New Hampshire, will arrive in Tallahassee to steer the 32-member Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions (FAHSC).
The job is all-new -- first time the statewide nonprofit has had an executive director. Michalik will lead the independent organizations, helping them advocate for public policy initiatives that promote quality health care for mothers, infants and children.
At age 23, Rep. Jennifer Sullivan is the youngest member of the Florida Legislature. But the Mount Dora Republican scored a major victory Wednesday, when Gov. Rick Scott signed her bill to require a 24-hour waiting period before women can have abortions.
And with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights immediately filing a legal challenge to the new abortion law (HB 633), Sullivan is sure to remain in the spotlight.
Negotiators from the House and Senate slashed almost $60 million in economic development spending Saturday as the Legislature drew closer to an elusive final deal on a state budget for the year that begins July 1.
Meeting over the weekend to hammer out the final details of a budget expected to weigh in at well more than $76 billion but south of $80 billion, House Appropriations Chairman Richard Corcoran and Senate Appropriations Chairman Tom Lee reached agreement on state spending for transportation and economic development.
