Jim Turner

February 01, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Property owners would be the big winners in a tax-relief package released by Gov. Ron DeSantis as he proposed a record $91.3 billion budget for next…

By Jim Turner

4 minute read

February 01, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Senate President Bill Galvano said hearings by his chamber on suspensions handed down by Gov. Ron DeSantis are a check between the legislative and executive branches.

By Jim Turner

3 minute read

January 25, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee voted 12-1 to support a measure that calls for a repeal of the Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Program law.

By Jim Turner

3 minute read

January 16, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The governor announced that Florida employees will no longer be reimbursed for Airbnb stays while traveling, as the state considers economic sanctions over the home-sharing platform's decision against listing properties in the West Bank.

By Jim Turner

4 minute read

January 11, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Ron DeSantis said efforts to improve Florida's troubled waters will rely on “sound science.”

By Jim Turner

6 minute read

January 10, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Unlike his predecessor, former Gov. Rick Scott, a multimillionaire who could buzz around the state in his own plane, DeSantis entered the governor's office Tuesday without a vast financial portfolio.

By Jim Turner

3 minute read

January 10, 2019 | Daily Business Review

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said in a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis that money in a $343 million block grant needs to be disbursed to citrus growers.

By Jim Turner

4 minute read

January 02, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Minimum-wage workers started earning $8.46 an hour Tuesday, up from $8.25 an hour in 2018 — and more than a dollar above the $7.25 federal minimum wage.

By Jim Saunders and Jim Turner

3 minute read

December 21, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis started a process so that the state clemency board could take up an April 2017 legislative resolution requesting the state clear the four African-American men accused in 1949 of raping a white woman in Lake County.

By Jim Turner

4 minute read

December 18, 2018 | Daily Business Review

In the lawsuit, suspended Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes argues that her due-process rights are being violated.

By Jim Turner and Jim Saunders

4 minute read