Miami Herald reports: State lawmakers and top state officials on Friday morning will tour the psychiatric unit at the Miami-Dade’s Pre-Trial Detention Center to learn about alternatives to jailing mentally ill inmates….
Tag: Florida
What are our lawmakers doing?
Clay Ford is sponsoring these bills: HB 103 – Voyeurism: Prohibits secretly viewing, for specified purposes, either under or through clothing being worn by another person without that person’s knowledge or consent…
Miller votes against Children’s Health Insurance
Congressman Jeff Miller voted last Wednesday against Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. Total vote: 290 yeas to 135 nays. The bill will have a posi tive impact on the…
Trustees respond to Attorney General
The Board of Trustees of Northwest Florida State College have sent a letter to Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on its March 2008 meeting with State Rep. Ray Sansom in Tallahassee. In…
Who is new Florida House Speaker
The Orlando Sentinel tells us that the state rep from Ocala is much like the Panhandle. Larry Cretul has backed losing candidates in recent GOP primaries, including Fred Thompson in last year’s…
Richburg/Sansom meeting not public
The St. Pete Times reports today the March 2008 “public” meeting between State Rep. Ray Sansom and Northwest Florida State College president Bob Richburg and his board was held at a private,…
Florida schools could lose out on federal aid
The Economic Stimulus package that was approved by the House requires states to maintain school spending to ”at least at the level of fiscal year 2006” to qualify for as much as…
White House Boys sue Florida
Former inmates at the old Florida School for Boys, in Marianna, which was part of the state’s reform school system, are suing the state. Some 87 men say they were brutally abused…
More budget cuts coming?
The Herald Tribune reports that Florida Senate budget chairman J.D. Alexander said Tuesday that tax revenues for December and January were expected to be a whopping $224 million below predictions. Alexander said…
Clay Ford not named Speaker of the House
House Republicans unanimously chose Rep. Larry Cretul as their new leader, allowing him to take over Ray Sansom’s duties as House Speaker immediately. Seventy-four of the House Republican Conference’s 76 members were…
Traffic tickets go up in lean times
When government revenues dry up, police write more speeding tickets, according to the Charlotte Observer. After analyzing 14 years of data, two economists found that for every 1 percent drop in government…
Special session has new budget
State lawmakers have balanced the budget by dipping into savings and cutting programs. They avoided any tax increases to cover the $2.3 billion deficit. Nursing homes, some affordable-housing programs, hospitals, prisons and…