Irene Secada sat in the back of the campaign headquarters doing mental math. About 80 people were crammed and sweating inside of a Weston shopping mall suite to see Nan Rich, the 72-year-old former state senator and lifelong Democrat, open her gubernatorial campaign headquarters. Although the majority of the Nan…
Food and shelter are basic human essentials that are often taken for granted. But not everyone is fortunate enough to afford a safe place. In hurricane-prone South Florida, the area is fraught with roof damage. And the cost of repairs leave some living in shoddy conditions — with a leaky…
Floridians who go out and purchase hurricane supplies can expect not to pay any sales tax, thanks to Rick Scott signing the hurricane tax-holiday bill, HB 5601, on Monday. The tax holiday means that things like batteries, generators, radios, tarps, and first-aid kits will be sales-tax-free during hurricane season, which…
It was only a matter of time, really. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that government meetings are allowed to open with prayer — even though currently in this country, the vast majority of such prayers are geared toward Christianity. The case was prompted in Greece, New York, where…
Rick Scott officially kicked off his tour of Florida car dealerships reelection campaign yesterday at a Volkswagen dealership in Jacksonville. He and some Republican supporters chanted his campaign slogan, “Let’s keep working!” Today at noon, when Scott comes to an AutoNation dealership in Greenacres, a grassroots group called Florida for…
Echoing sentiments he made a couple of months ago, Florida gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Crist says race was a big reason he chose to bolt the Republican Party. Crist sat down with Fusion TV on Tuesday and said the GOP’s hostile treatment of President Obama was a big reason he decided…
There are a good six months before Election Day, and Scott is not holding back on attacking Charlie Crist. He’s also not holding back on how much money he’s willing to spend doing it, nor in what language. Scott is eyeing a full-on campaign of wooing Hispanic voters by launching…
Fort Lauderdale is set to pass ordinances that would make an already difficult life for the city’s homeless even more so. During a public workshop in January, it was announced that the city planned to pass ordinances that would effectively ban groups from sharing food with the homeless and make…
Environmental groups made up of 350 South Florida, 350.org, Sierra Club, and CREDO will hold a news conference outside of Florida Sen. Bill Nelson’s office Monday to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline. Congress is a mere four votes away from passing a bill that would approve the Keystone XL Pipeline…
The latest numbers say that about 980,000 Floridians have signed up for private insurance through Obamacare. That’s up from 440,000 in February and March. And, as the AP correctly predicted weeks ago, the state is well on its way to blowing out its original projections. For his part, Charlie Crist…
“If the press won’t come to us, we will go to them.” Thus spake progressive activists who held a “die-in” yesterday outside of the Palm Beach Post to bring attention to the fact that the state legislature is likely to end this year’s legislative session without expanding Medicaid, thus leaving…
It appears the stage is set for Gov. Rick Scott and his challenger, former Gov. Charlie Crist, to go mano-y-mano in an all-world, no-holds-barred, smackdown, cage-match extravaganza. Or, as most people would call it, a debate. Leadership Florida, a nonprofit political group, announced Tuesday that Decision 2014: Before You Vote…
We’ve all been there: You’re riding your bike, walking on the street, or simply driving and out of nowhere some South Florida speed demon almost runs you down in his or her car. According to unfortunate statistics from the state, it’s more likely now than ever that the offending driver…
It looks like Gov. Rick Scott’s crusade to randomly drug-test Florida’s state workers has finally come to an end after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request for a review of a lower court ruling that the policy was unconstitutional. Scott’s quest to have state workers urinate into a cup…
Environmental tests have proven that sonar exercises performed by the U.S. Navy confuses marine life, specifically whales and dolphins, so severely that the animals end up either stranding themselves, going deaf, or suffering organ hemorrhaging. Sonar confuses them, often making them swim in different directions and disrupting their foraging and…
The Fort Lauderdale chapter of the Tea Party is planning to protest Charlie Crist’s new Broward field office, which is opening this weekend. On Monday, it was announced that the Crist field office at 320 S. University Drive in Plantation will have its opening at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The office…
Despite the warm weather, Florida is one of the worst places to be homeless in the country. Almost every year, the state gets ragged on by the National Coalition for the Homeless for being one of the “meanest” in the union. Cities like Miami, Sarasota, Pensacola, and St. Pete have…
It’s kind of amazing that there’s anyone left in Scientology, given all of the bad press this so-called religion has received — from Tom Cruise’s couch-jumping, revelations about Xenu, and some high-profile exits from the church. But one drive past the organization’s headquarters — a historic building called “Flag” in…
The Charlie Crist campaign has announced that it will open an office in Broward County this upcoming weekend. The field office, which will be located at 320 S. University Drive in Plantation, is the first Crist field office to open in Florida as the former governor preps for another go…
Earlier this week, Rick Scott was called out on a couple of misleading campaign ads claiming that 300,000 Floridians have lost their insurance due to Obamacare. But Florida Blue, the insurance company at the center of one of the ads, says this is not true. Scott, however, is standing by…
It would appear that major GOPer donors just aren’t thrilled with the chances of a Chris Christie, a Rand Paul, or even a Marco Rubio taking back the White House for the Republicans in 2016. So, they’re willing to go all-in with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as their latest…
It’s a random weekday during a random month and so — wheeee! — Allen West is back in the news. This time, though, it’s not for calling FAU students “animals” and promising to “face” them if they step to his lady, and it’s not for writing A TOTES AWESOME book…
