TALLAHASSEE (NSF) – Florida’s municipalities intend to fight a proposal now before state lawmakers that would take away their ability to set local election dates and could extend the terms of some current elected officials. State lawmakers on Thursday will look at a proposal that seeks to improve local voter turnout by requiring every city,…
Sen. Joe Negron is set to be designated this week as the next president of the Florida Senate, with the event following the Palm Beach and Treasure Coast Republican lawmaker’s successful capping of a long intra-party fight for the top post. The 26-member Republican caucus, which controls the 40-member Senate, is scheduled to meet at…
ORLANDO — A state report says 67 Florida property insurers “ultimately” passed a stress test that simulated three hurricane scenarios, though at least one company — which was not named — did not initially have enough reinsurance, or backup coverage to pay claims. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said the aggregate results mean consumers “should have…
TALLAHASSEE — With his successor formally in place, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli last month shuttered a fundraising committee that allowed him to give up to five-figure checks directly to legislative campaigns. Crisafulli started the House Republican Campaign Committee in August 2013 and raised $3.6 million, more than half of which came from the Republican Party…
Florida’s new insurance consumer advocate wants property insurance companies to produce data to back up their statements about rising water damage claims in South Florida. Sha’Ron James, who took over the statewide position in August, told participants at a public workshop Tuesday that she has asked the top 15 insurers to document their assertions that…
Jeb Bush stood before supporters in Tallahassee, the Florida capital over which he presided for eight years, and vowed in his first policy speech as a presidential candidate last June to halt the “revolving door” between Congress and K Street. “We need a president willing to challenge the whole culture in our nation’s capital —…
Support for Jeb Bush’s campaign appears to be flagging as lesser-known Republican rivals continue to pick up steam. The former Florida governor had been considered the Republican Party’s frontrunner in the 2016 presidential race until this summer’s media circus propelled real estate tycoon Donald Trump to the front of the pack. In Trump’s wake, the…
TALLAHASSEE — Taxicab companies in Broward County and Tallahassee filed their second lawsuit against the state in as many days, this time accusing app-based transportation services like Uber and Lyft of operating without proper insurance in Florida. The cab companies alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor…
“THIS country is a hellhole. We are going down fast,” says Donald Trump. “We can’t do anything right. We’re a laughing-stock all over the world. The American dream is dead.” It is a dismal prospect, but fear not: a solution is at hand. “I went to the Wharton School of Business. I’m, like, a really…
Jeb Bush is entering the next phase of the Republican presidential battle, and some of his closest allies are moving along with him. On the campaign trail, Bush is attacking Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, using multiple languages to question the celebrity real estate mogul’s conservative credentials. The super-PAC supporting Bush’s bid, Right…