Posts Tagged ‘Florida Legislature’
Sink calls for economic protections during special session
Press Release: Florida CFO Alex Sink today sent a letter to Speaker of the Florida House Larry Cretul and President of the Florida Senate Jeff Atwater outlining incentives, claims changes, and [...]
More insanity: Tie teacher’s comp to FCAT
According to the Miami Herald, there is a bill in the Florida Legislature that will tie half of teacher's compensation to FCAT and final exams. If this passes, expect teachers to only teach FCAT. [...]
Class-size battle brewing
Florida voters in 2002 changed the state's constitution to require smaller class sizes in their public schools. Since then, the Florida legislature, Gov. Jeb Bush and school superintendents have [...]
Consolidation Commission killed itself early
In an article on NorthEscambia.com, State Rep. Clay Ford says the Escambia County Consolidation Study Commission chairman Ken Bell disbanded the commission, which was actually formed by the Florida [...]
PNJ has it backwards
BACKWARDS PROCESS Consolidation battle has not become about the details of the plan. Instead, the fight has been over whether the public should vote on the plan that no one other than the study [...]
Consolidation Forum Tonight (read summary of plan)
Escambia County Consolidation Study Commission will present tonight its consolidation plan: New World Landing, 600 South Palafox St., 5:30-7 p.m. Here is a summary of the plan: A SUMMARY OF THE [...]
What’s the problem with consolidation?
The bill that passed by the Florida Legislature gives the Escambia County Consolidation Commission this charge: To study and develop a proposed consolidation plan for local governments or [...]
Sansom not only lawmaker on the take
The St. Pete Times has found 18 other current and former lawmakers that are employed by state colleges...none of them are from our three districts. Rep. Ed Homan, R-Tampa, a physician who makes [...]
Boone Report: GOP retreat
By IN reporter Sean Boone According to Florida State Rep. Greg Evers, the Republican state lawmakers that met in Destin two weeks ago for a four-day retreat, focused primarily on the budget of the [...]
Radio: Sir Harry Kroto
Nobel Prize winner Sir Harold Kroto - also a Florida State University - talks about how the Florida legislature would be making a big mistake if it mandates that public schools must teach Creationism [...]
Ford suggest deep cuts to commission salaries
According to WEAR's Dan Thomas, Clay Ford has suggested to putting county commissioner pay on equal footing with state legislators. In Escambia County that would mean a pay cut of about 44 [...]
Greyhound track may get more regulations
Florida is No. 1 in greyhound racetracks. According to the Miami Herald, state regulators want more inspection power and penalties for animal abusers. The industry has had problems from [...]
Budget sinks, leaders asleep
The Miami Herald reports that Florida's sagging economy is giving lawmakers $2.9 billion less than they expected. State economists said Tuesday that all state revenues -- from sales taxes to [...]
Property taxes articles – statewide
Miami Herald: Taxes cut; more may come Legislators ended a special session by approving a huge property-tax cut -- and giving voters the opportunity next January to cut them even more. St. [...]
State government has higher revenue, too.
With all the finger pointing by the state lawmakers over how local governments are growing and just keep absorbing property tax increases, the NY Times reports that Florida has the second largest [...]
Whitehead thinks he’s doing great
The word we're getting at the paper is that Escambia County Commissioner Mike Whitehead truly believes that his confrontations with State Rep. Dave Murzin and Speaker of the House Marco Rubio are [...]
Presiding officers’ letter to lawmakers
Rubio and Pruitt have sent this letter to their fellow lawmakers about the upcoming special session on property taxes Read: Presiding Officers letter
State Veto List
Dave Murzin emailed over the pdf of Gov. Crist's line-item vetoes. Read: 2007 veto list
Explain this Dave Murzin
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: The Florida Legislature ended its annual session without achieving its No. 1 goal: reducing property taxes. Legislators did, however, vote to increase property taxes by [...]
We thought we did well
Our local legislative delegation has been bragging about how well Escambia and Santa Rosa counties did in the past session. Well, what we got from the state budget pales to the $150 million that [...]
