State must cut another $2 billion

The word from Tallahassee is that state economists will announce today that the state’s budget deficit could reach $2 billion for the year ending June…

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Legislature fails on insurance

Our state reps – Dave Murzin, Clay Ford, Greg Evers and Ray Sansom – will all try to convince us that they accomplished great things…

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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…

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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…

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Clay Ford report on state house

Wrap-up Week 4 CS/HB 643 Unanimously Passes The House Legislation protecting homeowners from foreclosure fraud easily passed a full vote in the House Chamber Wednesday.House…

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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…

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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…

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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

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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…

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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…

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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….

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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,…

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