The News Service Of Florida

February 28, 2023 | Daily Business Review

The proposal (HB 1183) also would ask OPPAGA to consider if Cabinet members—the attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner—should draw pay that is comparable to other large states.

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September 04, 2014 | Daily Business Review

Mike Carroll, leader of the embattled Department of Children and Families, opened the annual Child Protection Summit on Wednesday with a pledge not only to save lives but to "protect the light" in children's eyes.

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September 04, 2014 | Daily Business Review

A 19-page letter from the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee to the Department of Health's general counsel questions nearly every aspect of the proposed rule, beginning with who would be allowed to apply for one of five licenses to grow, manufacture and distribute a type of cannabis approved during this year's legislative session.

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November 19, 2013 | Daily Business Review

It might be the closest thing to an off-season for Florida lawmakers and lobbyists when the 2013 legislative session was put to rest. But that relative calm did not stop the business of lobbying. Millions of dollars continued flowing during the three-month period from businesses, associations and local governments to lobbying firms that are hired to look out for their interests in Tallahassee, according to newly filed reports.

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March 06, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Judges from the 5th District Court of Appeal upheld an administrative law judge's opinion that sided with Peter R. Brown Construction, the contractor on a project to build a new 1st District Court of Appeal building, against the state Department of Financial Services.

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June 12, 2013 | Daily Business Review

State attorneys objected to an attempt by Muslim prisoners to intervene in a federal lawsuit that seeks to ensure the Florida Department of Corrections will offer kosher meals to religiously observant Jewish prisoners.

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March 13, 2013 | Daily Business Review

People injured by government employees could be able to get much more money from local governments in an effort to reduce the burden on the state for compensating victims of government negligence or misdeeds.

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December 07, 2011 | Daily Business Review

The Florida League of Cities outlined a list of legislative priorities, urging Senate Community Affairs Committee members to avoid the temptation to restrict the ability of local officials to levy taxes.

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January 11, 2013 | Daily Business Review

The controversial state "stand your ground" self-defense law could be repealed under a bill filed by a House Democrat.

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October 19, 2010 | Daily Business Review

The $11.5 billion needed to restore water flow through the Everglades will pay for itself at least four times over, according to a year-long study released Monday by the Everglades Foundation that says the economic benefit could go much higher.

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