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LeRoy Collins Institute seeks to go “beyond pensions” in new report

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The LeRoy Collins Insitute continued to take on the notoriously sticky wicket of local governmental pensions on Tuesday with the release of the seventh installment of the think tank’s Tough Choices series of policy papers, entitled “Beyond Pensions: Florida Local Governments and Retiree Health Benefits.” In the new study and an accompanying webinar held Tuesday morning, the institute’s director Dr. Carol Weissert and study author Dr. David Matkin of University of Albany spoke about the need to “get out in front” of the issue of…

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Liberty Partners of Tallahassee brings in up to $250k in lobbying fees for Q4 2014

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Liberty Partners of Tallahassee — led by Jennifer Green, Melanie Shanks Bostick, Ashley Dieguez, and Thomas Hobbs — continues to build on its boutique- t0-mid-size practice unique amid Florida lobbying firms. Its 17 legislative clients and 15 executive clients include Expedia, Humana,  AT&T, No Casinos, and the AAA Scholarship Foundation. Though there is no clear common thread between some of them, there is one in the firm’s style of representation. During the fourth quarter of 2014, the firm reported compensation of as much as $249,982 for legislative and…

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Conservative group finds Florida the “most free” state in ‘Murica

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Florida is leading the way when it comes to protecting the freedom of its citizens. That’s according to theNorth Carolina-based John Locke Foundation’s Freedom Index. The study analyzed fiscal policy including taxes and government spending, education policy as it relates to public and private school choice, regulatory policy looking at land use, occupational licensing and tort reform and healthcare policy. Florida ranked number one in the freedom index overall. This is likely the result of not state tax and a…

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Kathy Castor again blasts U.S. House GOP on failure to come up with bill to fund DHS

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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor says there are still ways for House Republicans to pass a clean funding bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, which could run out of money by Friday if a resolution isn’t passed in Congress. The Tampa Bay area Democrat held a press conference Tuesday in a parking lot of the International Mall in Tampa on Tuesday. Over the weekend Al-Shabab, an extremist group in Somalia linked to al-Qaida, released a video in which…

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Over 200 Florida businesses join coalition to pass Competitive Workforce Act

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On Tuesday, Florida reached a milestone in the growing battle for fair, equitable and competitive workplaces throughout the state. Florida Businesses for a Competitive Workforce announced more than 200 Florida employers; both large and small, have now joined the fight to support passage of the Florida Competitive Workforce Act. State legislators are currently considering two bipartisan proposals — House Bill 33, filed by Key Largo Republican State Rep. Holly Raschein and Senate Bill 156, filed by Democratic State Sen. Joe…

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Gwen Graham pledges to donate her salary if DHS funding allowed to lapse

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U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham said Tuesday that if the GOP-controlled 114th Congress moves forward with an increasingly likely budget gambit that would shut down the Department of Homeland Security, she will forfeit her pay in solidarity with the many federal workers who will be furloughed. “If Congress lets obstructionists shut down the Department of Homeland Security, each member should give up their paycheck,” Graham said Tuesday afternoon. “There should be an immediate consequence for letting partisan games threaten the security…

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Today on Context Florida: SB 1030, alimony reform, New Urbanist and SNL

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Today on Context Florida: Ben Pollara says Florida House Speaker Steve Crisafulli is right: no one has really made the case that the statutory language of SB 1030, legalizing low-THC medical marijuana, is flawed; but it absolutely is and must be fixed legislatively. Two groups have largely driven conversations surrounding 1030: advocates like Pollara, who have criticized the law as weak and industry players like Costa Farms and the Stanley Brothers, who have focused their energies (and lobbying/legal teams) on creating…

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