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Schultz: Can the Legislature dispense some common sense?
The 160 legislators who convene Tuesday in Tallahassee for the annual session campaigned on pledging to do the people's business. The skeptic would say tha...
Florida Legislative Preview – 2012
GAMING • CASINOS — The hottest non-redistricting fight likely will play out around a bill sponsored by Rep. Erik Fresen (R-Miami) and Sen. Ellyn Bogda...
State Legislature Needs To Fix Broken PIP System Now
As Florida drivers' insurance rates continue to rise due to the state's current no-fault system running rampant with fraud across the Sunshine State, we ap...
Guest column: Donovan Brown … Stop PIP fraud in Florida NOW
As Florida drivers' insurance rates continue to rise due to the state's current no-fault system running rampant with fraud across the Sunshine State, we ap...
Editorial: No more raids on housing funds
With the Legislature again facing a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall, Florida's affordable-housing trust funds will once more be at risk. As we've s...
Task force: PIP “has merit”, many problems ***Updated***PCI responds
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) responds, commending the offices of the Insurance Consumer Advocate (ICA) and Chief Financial O...
Tampa Bay Pilots celebrate 125 years of service in 2011
The Tampa Bay Pilots Association (TBPA), the association of harbor pilots serving the Tampa Bay area’s maritime traffic needs and a member of the Florida...
Paul Flemming: Trust funds are targets again
The broom's smaller, but the sweeping goes on. Since 2008, the state has relied on $2.8 billion swept out of dedicated trust funds — money set aside b...
Jaimie Ross: Use Florida housing dollars for housing
Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature have the ability to create nearly 9,000 jobs and $900 million in economic impact in Fiscal Year 2012-13, by...
Homelessness and hope
In a network news show last Sunday, "60 Minutes" presented viewers with "Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars," a real-life, heart-rending portra...