Dara Kam

June 27, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri warned that more school shootings are inevitable.

By Dara Kam

7 minute read

June 26, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The lawsuit is the latest effort by Louis Del Favero Orchids Inc. to enter the highly restricted medical marijuana market in Florida, where operators have sold licenses for upward of $50 million.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

June 26, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The filing, in the case of convicted murderer Duane Eugene Owen, comes as a revamped Supreme Court is exploring whether to reverse course on decisions that allowed dozens of convicted murderers to have their death sentences reconsidered.

By Dara Kam

4 minute read

May 28, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association challenged a state Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering renewal of Calder Race Course's slots license after the grandstand was razed and a slot-machine facility was built near outside areas where patrons could view live races.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

May 20, 2019 | Daily Business Review

With a conservative bloc of justices led by Chief Justice Charles Canady now in the majority, the court has begun the process of reconsidering whether changes to Florida's death penalty-sentencing system should continue being applied retroactively to cases dating to 2002.

By Dara Kam

8 minute read

May 16, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The tribe had warned it would halt the payments, which totaled nearly $330 million last year, because of controversial designated-player card games offered by many of the state's pari-mutuel cardrooms.

By Dara Kam

7 minute read

May 03, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The Senate spent about two hours in emotional debate on the measure before voting strictly along party lines and sending the proposal to the House for consideration.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

April 30, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Senate Democrats believe the measure creates onerous financial barriers to restoring voting rights for people who've already got the odds stacked against them.

By Dara Kam

6 minute read

April 18, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The new additions to Florida's rapidly growing medical-marijuana industry come from a pool of applicants that lost out in the first round of licensing in 2015 under an initial state law that allowed noneuphoric cannabis.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read

April 18, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Sen. Wilton Simpson, the Legislature's chief negotiator in gambling discussions with the Seminole Tribe, confirmed that the talks open the possibility of sports betting at dog tracks, horse tracks and jai alai frontons.

By Dara Kam

5 minute read