Add one more name to the mix of possible Democratic gubernatorial candidates. On Friday, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum announced he was “seriously considering” running for Florida governor in 2018.
Gillum made the announcement through a series of tweets posted Friday morning, hours before he was scheduled to prepare similar remarks at a Central Florida Urban League conference in Orlando.
The vast majority of U.S. voters support making marijuana legal and think the federal government should respect state marijuana laws, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday afternoon. The full poll results are available here.
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The Senate's comprehensive gaming package, Senate Bill 8, today passed the Committee on Appropriations and is ready to go to the Senate floor when the 2017 legislation begins March 7.
Florida would take a devastating economic hit if Senate President Joe Negron's SB 10 becomes law, reveals an eye-opening study released Thursday by the James Madison Institute.
President Donald Trump created a firestorm Friday when, in a tweet, he branded the news media "the enemy of the American people."
Asked this week about Trump's comment, Florida Republican leaders rejected his characterization about the press but empathized with the president's plight.
"A free press is an indispensable part of a democratic system. We do want the press to be accurate and to be fair, but we need to have a free press," Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart, said.
President Donald Trump’s administration reversed a policy on transgender bathroom guidelines from the Obama era on Wednesday, causing a cascade of criticism and a wave of support from Floridians, elected officials and educators alike.
If Senate President Joe Negron thought Wednesday was the day a House version of SB 10 would lift off the launch pad, he must have been beyond grief at day's end.
From robotics competitions to Alzheimer's research to new state college buildings, higher-education advocates on Wednesday made their pitches to Senate and House committees for funding in the next state budget.
The Senate Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee heard presentations on about a dozen projects and initiatives. The panel has asked all institutions and programs receiving state funding to file reports on how money is being used and to highlight outcomes of the expenditures.
