The Florida House continued its legislative crackdown on lobbyists Friday, extending the statewide ban on former lawmakers and elected officials from two years to six years. The bill would make Florida the most restrictive state in the country for lobbyists.
Now in his second term in Congress, South Florida Republican Carlos Curbelo continues to move up the ladder, even as he shows no hesitation on breaking with President Donald Trump and his policies.
Medical marijuana advocates are furious over a new House proposal they say will severely limit both the availability and marketability of a life-saving drug in Florida.
It's incredibly sad to watch House members who heartily supported Enterprise Florida during other sessions now talk nonchalantly about flushing Florida's economic success down the toilet as if it happened by magic. As if Rick Scott didn't spend the last six years kicking the door open, hauling the state economy up by its bootstraps, turning Florida into the envy of every governor in America.
When he was Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, George Shultz was once asked about the CIA's disavowal of involvement in a mysterious recent bombing in Lebanon. Replied Shultz: "If the CIA denies something, it's denied."
Looks like Tallahassee Mayor and gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Gillum has found himself in hot water once more over illegally using his government email for personal and campaign use. On Thursday, the State Attorney’s office officially announced it was opening a probe into the issue.
The full Senate is prepped and ready to take up Senate President Joe Negron’s $1 billion higher education bill this week. Under the proposal, SB 2 -- called the “Florida Excellence in Higher Education Act of 2017” -- state universities would be required to block tuition rates for in-state and out-of-state full time students by 2018.
National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer said it's too early to declare gun-related bills dead after an influential Miami senator this week appeared to shoot down a number of high-profile proposals.
"Everything is alive until it is killed by a vote of a committee or on the floor," Hammer, a past president of the NRA, said in an email Wednesday. "My job is not to wring my hands and whine, my job is to work hard for law-abiding gun owners and never quit. That's what I intend to do."
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam released the following statement Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its monthly citrus crop forecast for the 2016-2017 season, which is down 4 percent from the February forecast:
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