Juice: National politics

  • Scott presses on with business-tax-cutting agenda

    TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott isn't giving up in his quest to cut corporate taxes, proposing to eliminate a requirement that manufacturers prove they've made some gains in productivity to claim a sales-tax break on equipment purchases.

    Scott made the pitch in Jacksonville where he once again claimed that Florida [...]

  • New appointments to university Board of Governors expected today

    TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott is expected to make up to six new appointments to the Florida Board of Governors, which will make the university governing board a body dominated by his nominees.

    Four terms expired Monday -- those of Norman Tripp, Tico Perez, John Temple and Gus Stavros. [...]

  • Wednesday Morning Reads: Guns, Jeb and health care

    TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Wednesday.

    Here are the stories we're reading this morning.


    * The Orlando Sentinel looks at Gov. Rick Scott's Medicaid numbers and how economists have told him he was wrong.

    * The recovering economy is starting to yield employee raises' [...]

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