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Primary-election voters Tuesday approved the expansion of a renewable-energy tax break.
Read More »Voters Give Green Light To Solar Tax Break
Van Zant Family An Issue In North Florida House Race
Outgoing state Rep. Charles Van Zant can’t run for re-election this year because of term limits, but the socially conservative incumbent’s shadow looms over the race to replace him. That’s in large part because one of the candidates hoping to take his seat is his wife, Katherine Van Zant. Both …
Read More »New Poll Shows Clinton Leading In Florida
With Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton heading into their party conventions, polls this week gave conflicting pictures about the presidential race in Florida. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll released Friday showed Clinton leading Trump by a margin of 44 percent to 37 percent in a head-to-head matchup …
Read More »Rubio Up By Double Digits In Senate Race
THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE — After a late entrance into the race, Republican incumbent Marco Rubio holds double-digit leads over two Democratic challengers seeking a key U.S. Senate seat in Florida, a poll released Thursday shows. Rubio leads Congressman Patrick Murphy, who is supported by the White House and many Democratic leaders, by …
Read More »High Profile Developer Backs Medical Marijuana Operation
Panhandle developer Jay Odom is bankrolling a Northeast Florida operation licensed by health officials to grow, process and distribute non-euphoric marijuana products, a lawyer for Chestnut Hill Tree Farm confirmed Wednesday. Odom was sentenced to six months in prison three years ago after pleading guilty in a 2007 scheme to funnel $23,000 in campaign contributions through employees or their family members to a presidential candidate.
Read More »Poll: Trump Grabs Edge in Florida
Republican candidate Trump takes the lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton in Florida in the latest Quinnipiac University Poll.
Read More »Special Session Failure Unlikely To End Gun Debate
After their call for a special legislative session failed, Florida Democrats say they will continue to seek "common-sense" regulations on the sales of weapons to people on federal watch lists.
Read More »Millionaires Add Up In Legislature
The 2016 Florida Legislature appears to have been the richest in recent history. And a couple of incoming freshmen, recently elected without opposition, could help make the 2017 class even wealthier. The makeup of the 160 members of the 2016 Legislature, considered a "part-time" lawmaking body where people earn about $30,000 a year, featured at least 55 millionaires --- three more than in the prior session, according to newly filed financial-disclosure reports. Also, the paperwork for seven members wasn't available Tuesday morning on the Commission on Ethics website.
Read More »Dems Force Legislative Poll On Post-Pulse Special Session
Florida Democrats had little trouble rounding up enough members to call for a vote on whether to hold a special session dealing with gun control as a reaction to last month’s mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. However, it may be nearly impossible over the next week to …
Read More »Races Take Shape As Qualifying Closes
THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE— Sporting an orange hat that proclaimed “Let Irv Serve,” state Rep. Irv Slosberg pointed his smart phone’s video camera at a sign in the Division of Elections office that proclaimed “Qualifying is closed.” “Slosberg is qualified,” the Boca Raton Democrat repeated, until it was pointed out that the …
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