News Service Of Florida

February 23, 2018 | Daily Business Review

HB 773, sponsored by Rep. Mike La Rosa, R-St. Cloud, would negate local vacation-rental ordinances passed since June 1, 2011.

By Lloyd Dunkelberger, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

February 21, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The Florida House voted 111-1 on Tuesday to support placing the statue of civil rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, replacing Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

February 16, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Over objections that more money would flow away from public schools and that airport projects could be grounded, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a nearly $350 million tax package that would help farmers impacted by Hurricane Irma and lower a lease tax on businesses.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

February 15, 2018 | Daily Business Review

In what has become one of the high-profile issues of this year's legislative session, the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would…

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

February 14, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The Seminole Tribe could deal its opening bid before the end of the week as negotiations heat up with the state about a 20-year gambling pact, according…

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

6 minute read

February 12, 2018 | Daily Business Review

A surge in hurricane-recovery building and a change in the way the state collects gambling payments from the Seminole Tribe will give lawmakers a little…

By Lloyd Dunkelberger, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

February 09, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Thursday's decision came less than four months after a federal court slapped a $9 million sanction on Jacksonville-based Farah & Farah and The Wilner Firm “to account for the immense waste of judicial resources by maintaining over a thousand non-viable claims.”

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

February 08, 2018 | Daily Business Review

A proposal to redistribute hundreds of millions of dollars away from safety-net hospitals and toward increasing base Medicaid payments at all hospitals drew opposition in the Florida Senate.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

February 07, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Free-speech zones would be banned and state universities and colleges could be sued for up to $100,000 in damages if students or others “willfully” interfere with campus speakers or protesters, under a bill approved by the Senate Education Committee.

By Lloyd Dunkelberger, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

February 07, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Growing your own food may be as American as apple pie, but it's a no-no for gardeners who happen to live in Miami Shores and want to plant veggies in their own front yard.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

6 minute read