Sunshine Sate News – Allison Nielsen Florida’s Senate races reeled in the dough for the month of May, and politicos statewide were getting busy raising big money for their campaigns. With only five months left until the November general election, candidates are gearing up to a big summer of fundraising, and the numbers are just…
Palm Beach Post – Charles Elmore Brace for a change of direction at one of Florida’s two biggest property insurers. After years of losing customers, state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. expects to gain them in 2017, its top executive said Tuesday. A big reason: Private competitors such as Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Co. want…
Sunshine State News It seems strange, and a little vexing, to hear so few Democrats lamenting the impending loss of so many spectacular women in their caucus — some of the Florida Legislature’s most significant figures. I wonder if they really understand how much their landscape will change after November, that in the blink of an…
CBS News Miami TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – Dozens of candidates formally stepped into races for state offices across Florida on Monday, but the most closely watched possible campaigner remained silent about his plans. The first day of qualifying ended without any definitive word from U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio about whether he would seek re-election. Rubio, who…
Sunshine State News U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., will forego his Senate bid to replace Marco Rubio and instead will run for re-election in CD 13, Jolly announced Friday. “I have unfinished business,” Jolly told reporters in St. Petersburg. “I believe the opportunity to serve Pinellas County is just as right [as Senate bid]” said…
Sun Sentinel With a re-election bid by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio looking increasingly likely, a new poll Friday shows he won’t have an easy path if he decides to seek a second term. For more than a year, Rubio insisted he wouldn’t run for re-election. But many signs are pointing toward Rubio reversing himself with…
Jacksonville Business Journal Jacksonville is ranked No. 116 out of 380 cities for top cities prone to Auto Theft, says the National Insurance Crime Bureau and research from LoJack, a leader in vehicle theft recovery. Jacksonville ranks highly, with more than 3,000 thefts last year, but the state of Florida smashes the city itself: It’s…
Ron Hurtibise – Sun Sentinel The arguments were familiar at a daylong forum in Boca Raton attended by 150 players in Florida’s homeowner insurance rate crisis. But unlike their usual methods of venting over the past four years — legislative hearings in Tallahassee, websites, letters to the editor — the opposing sides listened to each…
Charles Elmore – Palm Beach Post The CEO of one of Florida’s 10 biggest property insurers told a forum in Boca Raton Tuesday that inflated water-damage claims are “morally wrong” and hurt all consumers by raising rates, while an attorney accused insurers of crying wolf about the latest “crisis” that serves their own needs. More…
Washington (CNN) Sen. Marco Rubio seemed to open the door to running for re-election Monday, when asked whether the Orlando nightclub shootings had changed his decision not to seek another term. Asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt if the shootings had led him to reconsider his decision not to run for re-election, Rubio pushed…