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Florida needs sweeping ethics-reform legislation
The time may be right for an ethics reform movement in Florida.
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Education Commissioner: Florida Shows Patience
The search to replace Gerard Robinson and Florida Commissioner of Educationk yielded just 16 resumes after a four-month national search.
Lakeland Ledger
Ensley: It's time for the Capitol oaks to go
Two historic oaks at the Old Capitol need replacing.
Tallahassee Democrat
Fund the state’s drug database
Unreasonable restrictions on the funding of Florida’s prescription drug database threaten to act like a poison pill — dooming the database.
Ocala Star-Banner
Growing gap
Florida's $128 billion state employees pension fund looks relatively healthy and with enough money to pay 86 percent of its long-term obligations.
Suncoast News
Florida Pension: Mind The Gap
Should the Florida Supreme Court rule against the state, the need for pension reform isn't going to go away.
Lakeland Ledger
State should pay for prescription drug database
The state needs to give the database a stable source of money.
Palm Beach Post
Kassab: Nuclear fallout in Florida expensive
Welcome to Florida's nuclear Armageddon. You had better hide your wallet.
Orlando Sentinel
Lives will be lost if state lets drug database die
The state can pay a little now, or pay dearly later in lives lost.
Orlando Sentinel
The property amendments
On Amendments 2, 4, 9, 10 and 11, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
The Observer Group
Fund the drug database
Unreasonable restrictions on the funding of Florida's prescription drug database threaten to act like a poison pill.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Amendment review: No on 5, 12
Amendments 5 and 12 on Florida’s November ballot deal with how people are appointed to positions of authority.
Northwest Florida Daily News
Mind the gap
This year the “gap” — the amount the state employee pension fund is underfunded — is $19.2 billion.
Gainesville Sun
No to these amendments
Don’t tinker with Constitution to limit or exempt taxes and revenue.
Miami Herald
Pension promises still unmet
It's time for the governor's actions to match his rhetoric.
Tampa Bay Times
Florida schools deserve the best
The Florida Board of Education was prudent last week when it voted to extend its search for a new education commissioner two more months.
Ocala Star-Banner
More caution on cameras
When red-light cameras don’t produce the revenues from traffic violations that were originally projected, is that a positive development?
Panama City News Herald

Op Ed

APD helps make sure employment is for everyone

Barbara Palmer
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Tallahassee Democrat
Preserve Florida land by getting Florida's Water & Land Legacy amendment on 2014 ballot

At one time, Florida Forever stood as the largest program of its kind in the country.

TCPalm
Thumbs down on the constitutional amendments

These amendments are some of the most...

Tampa Bay Times
Public sector costs, benefits

Public versus private compensation....

Tampa Bay Times

Letter To The Editor

Pipeline extension is a sand trap

The Department of Environmental Protection is embracing a town proposal to build a 3,500-foot pipe extension to bring sand from the south jetty at...

Palm Beach Daily News
Give me a scamming welfare mother over a scamming private company

Social welfare expenditures...

Palm Beach Post
Florida voters facing rash of deceptive amendments from legislators

 

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Bradenton Herald
Andy Ford is president of the Florida Education Association

The school year is under way, and once again, the state of Florida is looking for an education commissioner to lead our public schools. The former...

Orlando Sentinel
Create BP fund to invest in Bay County's future

Please consider making history and leaving a permanent legacy from this County Commission by creating the Bay County Permanent Fund.

 

Panama City News Herald
Dyer wouldn't sign pledge to full term

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Orlando Sentinel
Dead Man Voting
Statewide Momentum Growing for Ethics Reform
Amendment 8 Would Open Door to Government-Sponsored Religion
League Urges “No” Vote on All 11 Proposed Amendments
Restore Credibility to Enterprise Florida
Be Cautious in Pre-Judging Impacts of 2012 PIP Reform
Hurricane Andrew: 20 Years Later, We’re Better Prepared to Respond
Wilkins: Progress Report on Florida’s Children
Citizens’ Insurance Proposes Pricey, Risky "Corporate Welfare"
Say NO to State Farm's Proposed 15% Rate Hike
Future Corridors
Gov. Rick Scott: Medicaid Expansion is Bad for States
There are no Your Turn conversations for this Topic yet. Start one here.
Amendment 3: Should Florida's Constitution be changed to provide a new formula for limiting state revenue?
Amendment 8: Should Florida's constitution be changed to allow religious institutions to receive taxpayer funding?
Crist at the DNC: A setup for another run for governor?
Can Florida's jobless rate get below the national average?
Was Gov. Scott right to reject Tampa's request to ban concealed weapons outside the Republican National Convention?
Do you agree that state employees should be randomly drug-tested to help end drug abuse?
Florida’s Shrinking Newspaper Corps
Holding Florida Utility Customers Hostage to Nuclear’s False Dawn
About All Those Constitutional Amendments
A Diamond in the Rough
Faulty Engine Light Illuminates Government Over-Regulation

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