Dara Kam News Service Of Florida

April 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The recent scene outside Gov. Rick Scott's office may have been even more acrimonious than the alimony bill awaiting his action.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

11 minute read

April 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Longtime lobbyist Bob Levy, whose proteges included state lawmakers, dies at 67 after lengthy treatment for salivary gland cancer.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

March 29, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A lawyer for veteran Congresswoman Corrine Brown relied mostly on the region's long history of discrimination against blacks in an attempt to convince a three-judge panel to block a new North Florida congressional district from going into effect.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

March 26, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A state appeals court rules against paying attorney fees to a voting-rights coalition and voters who successfully sued the Legislature for different congressional district boundaries.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

March 22, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled a new death penalty law enacted this month should apply in the cases of Larry Darnell Perry and William Theodore Woodward.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

8 minute read

March 17, 2016 | Daily Business Review

With time running out in the legislative session and a gambling deal all but dead in the Senate, industry lobbyists and the Seminole Tribe scrambled to put together a new deal that included major concessions from the tribe regarding slot machines.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Lawmakers called it a heavy lift, a three-dimensional game of chess and a Rubik's cube.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

March 09, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Terminally ill patients would have access to marijuana under a measure that would legalize full-strength pot for the first time in Florida if signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

March 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

State lawmakers signed off on a measure intended to cure Florida's death penalty system, but defense lawyers say the proposed fix is flawed and will be challenged in court.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

March 04, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Hours after hearing arguments in the case, the Florida Supreme Court indefinitely postponed the execution of Mark James Asay, a convicted double murderer scheduled to die on March 17.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

5 minute read