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…
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Want to see the pork by county?
The Legislature has sent a $72 billion budget to the governor. Crist has line-item veto power to delete any items that he believes are pork. Here is a pdf of the pork…
Last day of state legislature
Miami Herald has put together a list of important legislation that’s still on the table for the state House and Senate to resolve on the last day of this session: PROPERTY TAXES:…
House sales tax proposal hurts young, locals and active
The South Florida Sun Sentinel did a great story analyzing the House tax proposal that would raise state sales tax to 8.5 percent. Jonathan Hamilton, chairman of the Department of Economics at…
Is the Crist honeymoon almost over?
Gov. Charlie Crist approaches his 100th day in office Thursday, the “people’s governor” is surfing the wave of a approval rating of 73 percent, according to a recent poll. He has endeared…
New college fee not tuition?
Miami Herald reports: State universities could charge students a special tuition fee that would not be covered by Bright Futures scholarships under a bill that passed its first test Wednesday despite dire…
Slowdown tax reform
The state legislature acts like the property tax and property insurance problems happened unexpectedly overnight. State economists were pointing out the coming train wreck early last year. However, it was an election…
House leaders tell school district to raise taxes…
While Gov. Crist and Republican lawmakers are beating their chests proclaiming property taxes should be cut, House Republican leaders are telling school districts to raise their tax rates. From the Miami Herald:…
Lawmakers have less cash…
Let’s see how the Florida Legislature manages having $1 billion less to spend. From the Miami Herald: Florida’s big-time budget boom, sparked by a flurry of rebuilding after devastating storms and soaring…
Reality check needed
The daily newspaper’s article on the impact of property tax reforms on the Community Maritime Park- ominously titled “Park money at risk” – has resurrected the doom and gloom naysayers. The article…
Counties fight back
Florida county governments are fighting back on property taxes, according to this article in the Miami Herald: Yes, county budgets have ballooned since the real-estate boom, but the money has gone into…
And then there was one
And that one is Dave Murzin. As soon as W.D. Childers left the state legislature, its leaders set up the Panhandle districts to keep weaken Escambia County’s representation. All the districts were…