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Lawmakers pass few bills as budget questions linger

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Just past the midpoint of the Florida Legislature’s 60-day session, lawmakers have left town for the Easter and Passover holidays. So let’s take a look at what they have done with the more than 1,700 bills that have been filed. They set next year’s presidential primary for March 15. And they’re really, really close to sending Gov. Rick Scott a bill that will let rural mail carriers ride around without their seatbelts. That’s about it. Every year the Legislature saves…

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Gov. Rick Scott mum on the hot issue of the 2015 session: Medicaid expansion

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As Medicaid expansion and healthcare access threatens to blow the 2015 legislative session sky high Florida Gov. Rick Scott has remained quiet on where he stands. And there are no signs so far that will change even though the ongoing stalemate over the budget could derail some of Scott’s top priorities for this year’s session. Scott’s press office did not comment on whether Scott supported a Medicaid expansion under the federal healthcare law or a modified Medicaid expansion as proposed…

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‘Momma bears’ roam the Florida Capitol searching for medical marijuana for their cubs

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Momma bears. It’s taking the momma bears to end the reefer madness. Paige Figi, Holley Moseley and Dawn Wein are among a group of women who worked the Florida Capitol the past year persuading, pressuring and pleading with lawmakers to lift a prohibition on medical marijuana and authorize the use of cannabis products they say will ease their children’s suffering and, in some cases, potentially save lives. When they showed up at the Capitol it was to put an exclamation point on the generation-long…

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Today on Context Florida: Daniel Tilson, tax cuts, abuse-deterring opioids and volunteer month

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Today on Context Florida: Political columnists write stories, says Daniel Tilson. They’re not supposed to be stories. Tilson reflects on some takeaways from his home visit by Rick Scott’s FDLE. Wrong-minded and ridiculous on so many levels. But here’s the thing … the decision to take that action and the action itself, to whatever extent meant to be intimidation, or not, brought the Law of Unintended Consequences into play, big time. Florida’s tax-cutter-in-chief is at it again, notes Janelle Irwin. After…

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Gov. Scott announces eight state board appointments

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On Thursday, Gov. Rick Scott announced eight appointments, including four reappointments, to a variety of state regulatory boards. Florida Healthy Kids Corporation Board of Directors Scott named two and reappointed two others to the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation Board of Directors, the organization that collaborates with Florida KidCare to provide health coverage for children ages 5-18. Dr. Jose Armas, 31, of Coral Gables, is a physician for MCCI. He succeeds Dr. Judith Schaechter for a term ending June 30, 2017.…

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Bill Day’s latest: Rick Scott’s Florida-shaped salt-water pool

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Gov. Rick Scott’s “unwritten rule” banning certain words in his administration did not stop with the term “climate change.” In addition, Scott also prohibited the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from using the terms “global warming” and “sea-level rise.” The governor would prefer the latter be called “nuisance flooding.” No matter what you call it, sea-level rise is more than a nuisance, and is expected to threaten nearly one-third of the state’s beaches within the next 85 years. As…

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Midway through 2015 Session, Florida Justice Association emerging as early winner

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Who would have guessed on primary night 2014 that the Florida Justice Association would look so formidable at halftime of this year’s legislative session? After playing and losing in a handful of Republican primaries that night, the FJA continued to take a political battering last cycle. They doubled down on Charlie Crist‘s close-but-no-cigar challenge to Rick Scott, Amendment 2 failed to garner the 60 percent of the vote necessary to become enshrined in the state Constitution and six largely lawyer-friendly House…

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