Miami Voice filed proposed wording for a Miami-Dade charter amendment to impose term limits on county commissioners. Separately, two commissioners said they plan to bring forth the same proposal.
Miami Voice, a political action committee, plans to file language on Thursday for a Miami-Dade charter amendment to impose term limits on county commissioners.
The Obama administration and top Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio, continued their fight over a law forcing most private insurers to pay for birth control.
Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide contraceptive coverage for their employees as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."
The House budget proposal includes special allocations for a trio of colleges in north and central Florida.
A pair of proposals would dramatically change the structure of high school sports in Florida.
While holes in state gambling laws threaten payments from the Seminoles, legislators rejected regulators’ bid for more powers.
Four of the most powerful mayors in Miami-Dade County will meet Thursday for lunch with the state’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender political and business activists.
County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro delayed, for the time being, his proposal to allow the current aviation department director to award and negotiate contracts under $5 million.
Former Broward state Sen. Mandy Dawson plans to plead guilty in a federal case that accuses her of income tax evasion, according to court records filed Monday.
Former Fort Lauderdale legislator Mandy Dawson will plead guilty to tax-evasion charges stemming from secret payments she received from a Hollywood doctor at the center of a federal corruption probe.
Gov. Rick Scott’s Facebook page is intriguing because the comments to a question about the Florida Legislature provides a snapshot of a divided state.
Here’s what we’re watching on Monday edition’s of the 2012 Legislature:
A proposal to move the office that represents consumers before state regulators gets mixed reviews, as some say it will make the job more political and others suggest it will insulate it from politics.
The vice president spoke at Florida State University, pushing the president’s college affordability plan.
Proponents say private prisons would save seven percent over state-run prisons, but opponents are skeptical.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Catholic who has always opposed abortion, has emerged as one of the leading national warriors in the politically explosive cultural war over birth control.
Like a product in any ad campaign, Mitt Romney is a brand. He has a slogan: “Obama isn’t working.”
Four years ago, then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won Florida with the largest voter mobilization effort ever seen in Florida. This year’s effort could be even greater.
In a few months, Miami-Dade will have to gear up for another round of trying to squeeze concessions from employee unions. A recent compromise is only a one-year fix.
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