Jim Turner News Service Of Florida

June 29, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida Democrats had little trouble rounding up enough members to call for a vote on whether to hold a special session dealing with gun control as a reaction to last month's mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

10 minute read

June 27, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Rick Scott appointed Robert Dees to the Fourth Judicial Circuit, choosing the Jacksonville attorney from a list six nominees that included a Republican state lawmaker who had become the target of gun-rights groups.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

June 16, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The mass shootings in an Orlando nightclub this week have fueled the already-polarizing issues of gun rights and gun control, with the debate expected to return on multiple fronts during Florida's 2017 legislative session.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

8 minute read

June 13, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Kevin McCarty, Florida's longtime insurance commissioner who is leaving the Office of Insurance Regulation during the first week of July, oversaw the insurance industry through the unprecedented 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons and a global recession.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

12 minute read

June 09, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A gun rights group wants a new hearing, with a new judge, in a lawsuit over firearm-related information in Florida State University's 2015 football "game day" guide.

By Jim Turner News Service of Florida

4 minute read

June 09, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Law-abiding Floridians should be allowed to openly carry firearms in public, a gun-rights groups argued to the Florida Supreme Court on behalf of a man arrested four years ago while strolling with a visibly holstered weapon in Fort Pierce.

By Jim Turner News Service of Florida

6 minute read

May 19, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida State University won't have to pay damages to a gun-rights group for incorrect information about firearms published in a 2015 football "game day" guide.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

May 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The state is picking up $1.5 million that the federal government had been expected to contribute to a deal to conserve 1,617 acres of ranch land and panther habitat in eastern Collier County.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

May 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Nearly $3.7 billion is projected to be spent, through state, local and private dollars, over the next five years to handle growing international trade at the majority of Florida seaports, according to a report released by the Florida Ports Council.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

May 03, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The impasse over Florida's next insurance commissioner has ended.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

5 minute read