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  • Alternatives to Medicaid expansion could be more costly

    With the Florida House presently unwilling to support Medicaid expansion, legislators are finding inspiration from other states as they try to come up with an alternative solution.

    Much of the focus is on Arkansas, which received preliminary federal approval to use Medicaid expansion dollars to purchase private insurance via health exchanges for 250,000 [...]

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  • Jeb Bush' Hispanic Leadership Network to powwow in Coral Gables

    From a press release:

    WASHINGTON, DC – Building upon a pro-immigration reform advertising campaign launched last Sunday, the Hispanic Leadership Network (HLN) today announced its third annual Miami Conference to be held April 18-19 at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami, Florida. Under the theme “Family Reunión,” the conference will be chaired [...]

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  • 'Anti-Sharia' law is back

    A renewed attempt to pass a controversial "foreign law" bill proposed by Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, and Rep. Larry Metz, R-Yahala, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, after more than an hour of sometimes emotional public testimony.

    The bill, SB 58, bans courts or other legal authorities from using [...]

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  • Rick Scott message guru guiding Miami Dolphins stadium strategy

    @MarcACaputo

    Give it to the Miami Dolphins: They know how to play offense.

    At least in the state Capitol.

    In the club's effort to get a tax-subsidized stadium deal, it hired top Republican message-master Curt Anderson, who was part of the consultant dream team that helped Rick Scott, an unknown former hospital executive [...]

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  • Gov. Rick Scott tells House he's not a fan of exploding campaign finance cap

    In another sign that Florida Gov. Rick Scott is moving to the populist middle, the govenor's aides told Florida House leaders Wednesday that he cannot support their plan to raise campaign contribution caps from $500 to $10,000 in exchange for more rigorous disclosure.

    "What we’ve told the House is that when [...]

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  • Weatherford's dad was right: Medicaid paid the bills

    A day after voicing opposition to expanding Medicaid in his inaugural speech of the 2013 session, Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford issued a statement clarifying a confusing, but crucial, part of the speech.

    Weatherford told House members on Tuesday that he opposed the expansion because it crossed the line of “proper [...]

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  • House higher ed panel pushes along in-state tuition, preeminence bills

    2013 may finally be the year for the college-bound children of undocumented immigrants.

    On Wednesday, the House higher education panel approved a bill granting in-state tuition to teenagers who are U.S. citizens, but whose parents are undocumented. Historically, those students have had to pay out-of-state rates to attend Florida’s colleges, universities [...]

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  • Atwater: Medicaid expansion probably won’t pass now, but may be ‘inevitable’ later

    Speaking to the Florida Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater expressed many of the same concerns of other Cabinet members about Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to accept federal funding and expand Medicaid: It would grow a government entitlement and be a new billion-dollar expense for the state.

    But Atwater seemed to [...]

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  • Miami Dolphins chief trashes "ginned up" poll showing stadium plan is highly unpopular, toxic

    @MarcACaputo

    A written statement from Miami Dolphins President and CEO Mike Dee on today's poll showing about 73 percent of likely Miami-Dade voters don't like the club's tax-subsidy plan:

    “A ginned-up poll paid for by a mystery client that goes out of its way to lead people to a negative position is [...]

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  • Gov. Scott puts conditions on Dolphins' tax break

    As lobbyists for the Miami Dolphins seek legislative approval for a tax break for improvements to Sun Life Stadium, Gov. Rick Scott is weighing in and proposing additional hurdles to any stadium deal.

    A document obtained by the Herald/Times lists a series of conditions -- called "principles" by Scott advisers -- [...]

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