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Ross Spano serving in the Florida Legislature in 2017. The Dover Republicans 2018 campaign for Congress is now under federal investigation. SCOTT KEELER | Times
Ross Spano’s congressional campaign faces criminal investigation
The House Ethics Committee revealed the Dover Republican is under federal investigation for possibly violating campaign finance law.
Yesterday• The Buzz
Hundreds of Florida inmates are serving drug sentences no longer in state law
Jomari DeLeon, is pictured at at Gadsden Correctional Facility in Quincy, Florida August 7, 2019. Jomari is three years into a 15-year sentence for drug trafficking. She sold 48 tablets of prescription tablets over two days to an undercover officer. JOHN PENDYGRAFT | Times
Florida lawmakers agreed the state’s old drug sentencing laws went too far. But that means nothing to people serving time.
Nov. 13• Special Reports
This Florida nonprofit boss got flak for $761,000 salary. Now she’s retiring.
Tiffany Carr — shown during a 2004 visit to a Hollywood nail salon, where she spoke on domestic violence — was paid $761,560 annual salary as head of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence. MIAMI HERALD | [Bob Eighmie Miami Herald file photo]
Former state Sen. Denise Grimsley, a friend of Carr’s, is stepping in as interim president and CEO of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Yesterday• The Buzz
Florida’s refusal to expand Medicaid cost 2,800 deaths, report says
In this 2017 photo, then-Gov. Rick Scott, left, speaks with then-Florida Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran in Tampa. The two were instrumental in refusing to expand Medicaid in Florida. [CHRIS URSO | Times]
According to a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Florida likely suffered the second-highest total of deaths in that time period — 2,776 — attributed to not expanding Medicaid,...
Yesterday• The Buzz

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  1. Ross Spano’s congressional campaign faces criminal investigation
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Ross Spano serving in the Florida Legislature in 2017. The Dover Republicans 2018 campaign for Congress is now under federal investigation. SCOTT KEELER | Times
    The House Ethics Committee revealed the Dover Republican is under federal investigation for possibly violating campaign finance law.
  2. On day of another school shooting, Parkland-inspired group rallies at empty Florida Capitol
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Student activists with the March For Our Lives group, founded after the Feb. 2018 Parkland shooting, hold a banner that promotes their new "peace plan" to prevent gun violence, while demonstrating in the rotunda of the state capitol building in Tallahassee. Emily L. Mahoney | Times
    The 18-year-old student director of March for Our Lives Florida said school shootings are so common they are “not shocking” anymore.
  3. Gov. DeSantis rolls out new teacher bonus proposal
    Yesterday• Gradebook
    Gov. Ron DeSantis greets local officials at Dunedin High School on Oct. 7, 2019, part of a swing around the state to announce his plan to boost starting teacher pay in Florida to $47,500. He revealed a related teacher bonus plan on Nov. 14 in Vero Beach. MEGAN REEVES | Tampa Bay Times
    The new plan would replace the controversial Best and Brightest model that DeSantis had called confusing.
  4. St. Petersburg lawmaker files bill to reduce outdated drug sentences for Florida inmates
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Florida Senator Darryl Rouson on the floor of the Florida Senate. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
    His office said he had been considering filing the bill, but a Times/Herald investigation published Wednesday prompted them to move more quickly.
  5. Soldiers should be able to sue military doctors for poor medical care, Rick Scott says
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., questions FBI Director Christopher Wray during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Also pictured is Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., left. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ANDREW HARNIK | AP
    Scott is co-sponsoring a bill to overturn a 1950s Supreme Court ruling.
  6. This Florida nonprofit boss got flak for $761,000 salary. Now she’s retiring.
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Tiffany Carr — shown during a 2004 visit to a Hollywood nail salon, where she spoke on domestic violence — was paid $761,560 annual salary as head of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence. MIAMI HERALD | [Bob Eighmie Miami Herald file photo]
    Former state Sen. Denise Grimsley, a friend of Carr’s, is stepping in as interim president and CEO of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
  7. Florida’s refusal to expand Medicaid cost 2,800 deaths, report says
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    In this 2017 photo, then-Gov. Rick Scott, left, speaks with then-Florida Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran in Tampa. The two were instrumental in refusing to expand Medicaid in Florida. [CHRIS URSO | Times]
    According to a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Florida likely suffered the second-highest total of deaths in that time period — 2,776 — attributed to not expanding Medicaid,...
  8. Pete Buttigieg picks up endorsement of St. Petersburg lawmaker
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Democratic presidential candidate South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg delivers a Veterans Day address at a campaign event, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Rochester, N.H. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) ELISE AMENDOLA | AP
    State rep. Ben Diamond: Mayor Pete is ‘the type of leader that can really bring our country together’
  9. These Floridians have starring roles in the Donald Trump impeachment
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz and U.S. Rep. Val Demings have prominent roles in the impeachment of President Donald Trump. [AP Photos]
    Pam Bondi, Matt Gaetz, Val Demings and more will factor prominently in the coming weeks. Here’s how.
  10. PolitiFact: Meet George Kent, the career diplomat testifying today
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Career Foreign Service officer George Kent, testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, during the first public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ANDREW HARNIK | AP
    Kent was one of the most high-ranking career officials who had knowledge about elements of the alleged White House effort.
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