Florida Ports Want Help In Luring Shipping Firms
The top lobbying group for Florida's seaports wants the state to establish a marketing campaign to help lure cargo-shipping companies from major ports in other areas of the country.
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The top lobbying group for Florida's seaports wants the state to establish a marketing campaign to help lure cargo-shipping companies from major ports in other areas of the country.
An alcohol measure that would allow shoppers to pick up fifths of alcohol in grocery stores passed its first hurdle in the House Wednesday but not without objection from Florida's largest grocer.
While he has only indicated at this time that he is looking into a possible Oval Office run in 2016, former Gov. Jeb Bush plans to set himself apart from his family during a speech Wednesday in Chicago.
It's been ten months since Calder Sloan was electrocuted while swimming in his family pool. You may recall his self-portrait called mister awesome traveled the world following his death. Today state legislation was filed in Mr. Awesome's name, legislation that may prevent further tragedies from happening.
After lawmakers scuttled the idea last year, a Senate committee has backed a proposal to help immigrant children get health coverage in the KidCare program.
People with concealed-firearms licenses could carry guns at state colleges and universities, under a proposal narrowly approved Monday by a Senate committee.
Senate President Andy Gardiner wants the state to focus more on mental-health issues after the child-welfare system was stunned by the death of a 5-year-old girl whose father is accused of dropping her into Tampa Bay.
Nearly two years after the Florida Board of Education approved the changes, an appeals court Monday upheld a plan aimed at revamping the way faculty members get tenure-like contracts at state colleges.
The state of Florida already has a Hurricane Sales Tax Holiday and a Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday, now Small Business Saturday could be the state's newest tax holiday, according to a bill which is up for a vote in the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee Monday.
An appeals court Monday rejected a challenge to a company's auto-insurance policy that included different levels of uninsured-motorist coverage for executives and employees.
2014 will go down in the books as another record setting year for Florida tourism. On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott announced during a visit to Tampa International Airport that more than 97 million visited the state last year.
Jeb Bush was preparing to release the emails he sent and received as Florida governor when he was excoriated by a letter-writer to The Miami Herald.
Barbara Bush, the mother of former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush, no longer feels there have been too many Bushes in the White House – as she stated two years ago.
Florida's university system wants state lawmakers to holster the idea of allowing guns on campus.
President Barack Obama got the ball rolling on easing travel to Cuba and allowing limited trade.
