Today on Context Florida:
As the condolence calls, texts, tweets and Facebook messages started coming in just before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night, Daniel Tilson joins other Democrats in asking what is wrong with Florida. About 3 million Christian conservatives and other mostly anti-government Republican voters (sprinkled with some independents) keep re-electing governments that the other 15+ million of us are stuck with.
A vast majority of Floridians wants to preserve the state’s landscape no matter whom they voted for in political races, writes Bruce Ritchie. Voters re-elected Rick Scott, the Republican incumbent governor, over Democrat Charlie Crist, a former Republican governor who this time had a Sierra Club Florida endorsement. But voters also backed a conservation lands amendment by a 75-25 percent margin statewide.
After what seemed to Barney Bishop like a million television ads, Gov. Rick Scott — the first man to come out of nowhere and win the Governor’s Mansion with his own money — has secured a second term. What made this race so interesting was that former Gov. Charlie Crist, the consummate retail politician, was seeking a return to Tallahassee.
Tamara Y. Demko says Florida has a chance to drastically change the landscape of its health-care delivery system this session, generate significant cost-savings and lay the foundation for long-term sustainability by enacting telemedicine legislation. The time to act on telemedicine is now.
