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Vern Buchanan Outraged AIG May Sue Over Terms of Bailout

Submitted by Anonymous on January 9, 2013 - 1:51pm

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, expressed outrage Wednesday as the directors of insurance giant AIG consider suing over the terms of its federal bailout.

Outrageous! Thats the only word to describe the shameful discussion taking place inside the boardroom today of the New York-based insurance giant AIG, Buchanan blasted out in an email.

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Business Advocates Roll Out Support for Rick Scott's Call to Cut Taxes on Manufacturing Equipment

Jim Turner

January 8, 2013 - 6:00pm

Business groups statewide were quick to come to the support of Gov. Rick Scott as he proposed offering new incentives to manufacturers to build additional business in Florida.

Scott will ask legislators this spring to eliminate taxes on the purchase of equipment by manufacturing companies.

Right now, if you have a manufacturing company in Florida and want to buy more equipment, then you have to pay a sales tax. We need to eliminate that so Florida companies are not at a competitive disadvantage, Scott said while on WOVK 690 AM in Jacksonville on Wednesday morning.

Rick Scott on TV Talking Health Care Costs, Gun Laws

Submitted by Anonymous on January 9, 2013 - 12:35pm

Gov. Rick Scott appeared on FOX 30 Action News in Jacksonville on Wednesday, as part of a round of TV and radio appearances, defending state health care cost estimates, school security and gun laws, and unemployment.

View FOX 30 interview here.

Scott is scheduled to appear today on FOX News with Neil Cavuto during the 4 p.m. hour.

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New Federal Tax Code Punishing Marriage in Florida?

Submitted by Kevin Derby on January 9, 2013 - 12:11pm

The Sun-Sentinel reports today on the latest victims of federal social engineering via the tax system -- almost 70,000 families in South Florida, and presumably tens of thousands more throughout the Sunshine State, perhaps amounting to hundreds of thousands -- facing new tax increases:

"As tax season starts, Plantation accountant Sheri Schultz has started crunching numbers --and she doesn't like what she sees. Her family is facing tax hikes to the tune of thousands of dollars this year.

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JaxPort to Showcase Blount Island Terminal on 50th Anniversary Tours

Submitted by Anonymous on January 9, 2013 - 11:42am

The Jacksonville Port Authority, JaxPort, is holding free monthly tours of its largest cargo terminal, the 754-acre Blount Island Marine Terminal, as a means to show off the complex for its 50th anniversary.

Tours are set for the fourth Wednesday of each month through most of the year, with the first tour group rolling out at 9:45 a.m. on Jan. 23.

Preregistration is required through jaxport.com.

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Joseph Bondi, Father of Pam Bondi, Dies

Submitted by Anonymous on January 9, 2013 - 9:46am

(updated at 12:40 p.m.)
Joseph Bondi, the father of Attorney General Pam Bondi, has died after a lengthy battle with leukemia. He was 76.

My beautiful Daddy went to Heaven yesterday, Pam Bondi posted on her Facebook page this morning.

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Charlie Crist Visits Democratic Governors at BCS Championship

Submitted by Anonymous on January 9, 2013 - 8:32am

Were almost there.

As we wait on former governor Charlie Crist -- late of the independent brand after dropping his Republican designation -- to go public with his gubernatorial plans, he paid a visit Monday to the Democratic Governors Association box at the BCS National Championship Game in Miami.

Crist told the Daily Caller the appearance was not politics-heavy.

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Rick Scott Asks Bernie Machen to Remain Gators' President

Jim Turner

January 8, 2013 - 6:00pm

Ricardo Rangel: Rising Star to Focus on Job Training, Veteran Mental Health, Internet Sales Tax

Eric Giunta

January 7, 2013 - 6:00pm

Election Snafu: Was Ballot Too Long?

David Royse News Service of Florida

January 8, 2013 - 6:00pm

When Gov. Rick Scott recently listed ways he thinks Florida could reduce voting difficulties and long polling lines, he drew the most attention for a change of course in suggesting that more early voting might help.

But another idea Scott raised may have more far-reaching implications for public policy in Florida, and might even be more difficult to accomplish than the politically volatile suggestion about early voting.

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