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Florida Senate says no to Small Biz Saturday tax break

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Every smart shopper knows there’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The National Federation of Independent Business Florida wants to tuck “Small Business Saturday” between those days and has been advancing a proposal that would give shoppers a tax break for shopping locally owned, independent businesses. The tax holiday was in the House tax reduction package HB 33A, and economists predicted it would be a $40 million tax break between local and state taxes. The Senate–which had endorsed a similar proposal…

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Uber requests that ride-sharing be part of special session in Tallahassee

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Among the many casualties in the aborted legislative session last month was legislation regulating ride-sharing apps Uber and Lyft. On the eve of the Special Session, though, Uber’s Florida General Manager Matthew Gore and other Florida business leaders have asked House Speaker Steve Crisafulli and Senate President Andy Gardiner to include transportation network companies in the call that starts Monday. “When you gather for this important June session, we hope you consider the more than 60,000 Floridians who have asked you…

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DMV-collected email addresses will be exempt from Sunshine Law

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Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday signed into law SB 7040, one of dozens of bills sent to the governor’s desk last week. Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles customers who include their emails in forms and communications with the office will now be shielded by an exemption from Florida’s stringent “Government in the Sunshine” laws. Because the bill partially countermands those public records laws, it required a two-thirds majority in each house. In the Senate, where it was carried…

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Florida Family Action urges Gov. Scott to veto adoption bill

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Social conservatives in Florida are urging Rick Scott to veto an adoption bill because it lacks a “conscience protection” provision for faith-based adoption and foster care agencies. CS-HB 7013 was a bill strongly supported by Senate President Andy Gardiner as the session began. It re-creates a program to provide a financial benefit of $5,000 or $10,000 to state employees who adopt foster children, as well as provide incentives to community-based care lead agencies and their subcontractors for achieving specified adoption performance standards. But…

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Diane Roberts: The unavoidable subject of stupid

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OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – Which is worse: stupid and evil or smart and evil? It’s a thought experiment: you can apply it to, say, George W. and Jeb Bush, Rick Scott and Adam Putnam, the Florida House and – Jesus, those idiots don’t deserve to be in the same paragraph as the word “thought.” But while we’re on the unavoidable subject of stupid: remember the amendment to the state constitution passed by an overwhelming margin last year? You probably voted for…

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Uber wants ridesharing on the agenda during summertime Session

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The ridesharing app company Uber is appealing to the public for support in its effort to convince lawmakers to include legislation to regulate its industry in the call for a special session this summer. “We need your help to make sure the Legislature doesn’t go home again without taking up ridesharing legislation during the special session,” the email to users and supporters reads. “This is your opportunity to tell Governor [Rick] Scott, House Speaker [Steve] Crisafulli and Senate President [Andy] Gardiner…

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Matt Gaetz also a bully in his legislative district, says Okaloosa county commissioner

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Unlike most state lawmakers — who are far better known in Tallahassee than they are back in districts that elected them — state Rep. Matt Gaetz is a significant public figure in his Panhandle hometown. If his style of debate on the House floor didn’t already tip you off, the Shalimar Republican’s recent Tweet directed at Senate Democratic Leader Arthenia Joyner and state Sen. Dwight Bullard implying the two have questionable literacy skills make it pretty plain that, at the very least, Baby Gaetz can be rude around…

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