National small-government advocacy organization Americans For Prosperity is promoting nine “Tax Day” rallies in Florida including one in downtown Orlando next Sunday. The Orlando rally, at 2 p.m. in Lake Eola Park Amphitheater, is being sponsored by th... »
TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Mike Haridopolos and his successor Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, said they are open to looking at town halls or potential hearings on the Trayvon Martin case after the November elections when lawmakers will begin committee... »
UPDATES w/ Florida Democratic Party response By Aaron Deslatte, Tallahassee Bureau Chief TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate voted 31-6 Thursday to pass its response to a high-court rebuke of its once-a-decade chore of redistricting, despite objections th... »
TALLAHASSEE — The debate over re-drawing the Florida Senate’s political lines has come down to numbers, but not just racial breakdowns or election returns. The Senate Reapportionment Committee began its second day of debate Wednesday where it left off ... »
TALLAHASSEE — Interest groups anxious to make decisions about where to play in legislative elections have been expecting multiple head-to-head match-ups when the Senate unveiled new districts Saturday. They’re bound to be disappointed. The first Senate... »
TALLAHASSEE — Three of the groups that backed the Fair Districts reforms and are challenging congressional redistricting plans in court now want the Senate’s point-man to re-think his crash-course for re-drawing Senate districts. Lawmakers are facing a... »
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate has set a noon Saturday deadline for filing a proposed re-drawing of the districts invalidated by the Florida Supreme Court last week. Noon Saturday happens to be smack in the middle of St. Patrick’s Day, with a parade ... »
The Florida Senate convened at 1:01 p.m. today to open a special session on redistricting — and promptly adjourned at 1:13, after observing procedural niceties and listening to Senate Reapportionment Chairman Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, tell them that his ... »
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate voted 38-1 Thursday to pass a claims bill paying former Brevard resident William Dillon $1.35 million for the 27 years he was wrongly imprisoned for murder, ending his three-year struggle to get compensation. Senate Pre... »
TALLAHASSEE – Complaining about the media and ban on gifts from lobbyists, a Senate panel shot down a bill that would have prohibited future lawmakers from also holding jobs or contracts with state colleges and universities. The legislation, SB 1560, m... »
TALLAHASSEE — Welcome back to another week of the 2012 legislative session. We’ll see both chambers on the floor this week and more on a number of huge issues that arose this last week as well. So with that, we give you the top five stories you should ... »
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate passed its version of a new congressional map late Tuesday afternoon by a 34-6 vote. Senate President Mike Haridopolos called it one of the Senate’s “finest hours” and hailed it as a bipartisan product given that seven ... »
TALLAHASSEE – Over complaints that its work continued decades-old gerrymandering, Senate Republicans rammed through a proposed map for their own 40 seats that more evenly divides population gains over the last decade and maintains an electoral advantag... »
TALLAHASSEE – After more than two years of bickering over reforms meant to curb political abuses, the Florida Senate Tuesday plans to debate maps for congressional and legislative districts that preserve Republican majorities and, its authors say, meet... »
The incoming president of the Florida Senate says the Legislature should revisit a tax break it passed last spring if the measure does not ultimately attract new capital spending to the state. “If it turns out that this change in the tax code does not ... »
