May 3, 2016 - 2:00pm
This week, HUD Secretary Julián Castro awarded $9.3 million will go to more than 50 programs helping the homeless across the Sunshine State.
Location Upgrade for Florida GOP Convention Delegates in 2016? Sort of
May 3, 2016 - 1:45pm
Siberia? Nyet. Not this time. Not really. Florida delegates and alternates to the 2016 Republican National Convention have been assigned to one of two hotels located a 25-minute bus ride away from Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena -- the Embassy Suites Hotel Cleveland -- Rockside (primary hotel) and Courtyard by Marriott Cleveland Independence.
Republicans Should Have Adopted Democrats' Rules -- and Vice Versa
May 3, 2016 - 7:00am
The unexpected successes, forecast by almost no one 12 months ago, of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in winning 40 percent and 42 percent in Republican and Democratic primaries and caucuses is widely taken as evidence of raging discontent among American voters.
Not Taking Kindly
May 3, 2016 - 2:00am
Florida’s Illegal Marijuana Growers Take $55 Million Hit
Submitted by Nancy Smith on May 2, 2016 - 10:10pm
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam announced Monday the state’s Domestic Marijuana Eradication Program resulted in the discovery of more than 328 indoor and outdoor grow sites, the destruction of 18,505 marijuana plants and the arrest of 279 people last year. The estimated street value of the seized marijuana is more $55.6 million.
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Judge Leaves Open Possibility of 3 Pot Licenses in Northeast Florida
May 2, 2016 - 9:30pm
Medical marijuana licenses given to two Northeast Florida nurseries by state health officials cannot be challenged by a grower who lost out in the application process, an administrative law judge ruled Monday.
But Judge R. Bruce McKibben left open the possibility for Loop's Nursery and Greenhouses to get a third license in the region.
Marion County School Board Approves Transgender Bathroom Ban
May 2, 2016 - 5:15pm
Marion County dove headfirst into the transgender bathroom controversy, requiring transgender students to go to the bathroom of their birth sex rather than their identified gender.
Last week, the Marion County School Board approved a measure 4-1 requiring its students to use the bathroom of their birth sex.
Scott Uses California Minimum Wage Hike to Attract Businesses
May 2, 2016 - 2:45pm
Gov. Rick Scott has gone West, stopping in Los Angeles in an effort to lure California businesses to the Sunshine State.
Cash-Short Annette Taddeo Dallies with a Republican Consultant?
May 2, 2016 - 11:15am
If I were a Democratic donor, I'd want to know why CD 26 candidate Annette Taddeo -- the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's chosen one -- is allowed to bulldoze her way through cash when she's got a contested primary and a well-financed Republican incumbent ahead of her.
And is anybody looking at what she's spending her money on? For one thing, a payroll big enough to choke a horse. For another -- and this one is a curiosity -- a Republican consultant that most Dems wouldn't consider for a moment.
In Case of Trump Nomination, Break Glass
May 2, 2016 - 7:00am
Donald Trump's damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party's history. These collaborationists will render themselves ineligible to participate in the party's reconstruction.
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