Perhaps my Twitter account had been hacked.
Maybe I had bumped my head.
There was even a conspiracy that I had succumbed to a political payoff.
Whatever the reason, my followers on Twitter...
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Florida's Medicaid waiver program for persons with disabilities, iBudget Florida, has hit multiple snags and as many lawsuits during its slow implementation since being created by the Legislature in 2010.
The program was intended to give clients better access and more choices in the services they receive, providing the potential to lower spending, and thus creating an opportunity to reduce the number...
"... but what if Charlie Crist doesn't want to be governor?"
That's the question I ask every other member of the Society of the Tarpon Belt -- the loose confederation of former Crist staffers and supporters serving as an unofficial government-in-waiting. What if Crist doesn't want to be governor of Florida for four (or eight) years at this stage in his life?
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This column was written with KAREN CYPHERS.
Florida's Water and Land Legacy Campaign announced Thursday that it has collected enough signatures of Florida voters to qualify for Supreme Court review in the hopes of getting its proposed constitutional amendment onto the 2014 ballot.
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Firmly in control of the Governor's Mansion and Cabinet, as well as both chambers of the Florida Legislature, the Republican Party of Florida's hegemony over state politics has been unquestioned for over a decade. Yet, in the wake of a string of embarrassing scandals that have ensnared several Republican elected officials and politicians, GOP leaders have come to recognize that their opponents are not Florida Democrats.
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"I'm exhausted" is all 33-year-old Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford could manage to say to me in a text responding to a question about how his Friday had gone.
Weatherford could have blamed his exhaustion on being the father of a 5-month-old child (in addition to two other wonderful young children). But Weatherford's exhaustion, undoubtedly short-lived, was due to the flurry of activity that took...
“Ol’ Stan Marshall puts his pants on one leg at time,” the barber said as he trimmed the back of my head, which may have been trembling too much for him to cut in a straight line.
The barber’s words did little to soothe the anxiety I felt in preparation for a meeting in 1997 with Dr. J. Stanley Marshall, former president of Florida State University, founder of Sonitrol of Tallahassee and an all-around legend of the Tallahassee community. Marshall had asked to meet with me after the publication of an...
No one could have predicted that convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky would be central to the Florida Legislature's debate over how to best reform the state's broken campaign finance regulations. However, the use of Sandusky's likeness in an attack mailer in last year's race for House District 30 prompted lawmakers to examine a system that all agree isn't working.
The Sandusky mailer was designed by...
This is a column you may read in November 2014.
As Will Weatherford enters Election Day as the Republican nominee for governor, political observers are still stunned by the Florida House speaker’s meteoric rise. Yet all agree on exactly when the trajectory of Weatherford's political career began to track exponentially upward: February 20, 2013. It was on that day when outgoing...
Such are the cruelties and vagaries of life that, only in his passing, is Bill McBride able to accomplish something he was not able to do while alive: control the pace of a Florida gubernatorial race.
It might be macabre to say so, but that is what has happened in the wake of the death of McBride, the 2002 Democratic candidate for governor. Whereas a month ago former Gov. Charlie Crist was prompting...
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