Articles in Category: 'Dan Gaetz'

Boon to Florida Economy? 'Single Sales' Corporate Tax In Budget

By: Kenric Ward | Posted: April 29, 2011 3:55 AM

TAGS: Business, corporate tax, Dan Gaetz, Dominic Calabro, Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy, Florida TaxWatch, News, payroll tax, property tax, Rick Scott, single-sales factor, Steve Precourt, Politics, Government

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Report: Obama Team Botched BP Oil Spill

By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 7, 2010 2:25 PM

Buttressing Floridians' complaints about Washington's response to the giant BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal commission blasted the Obama administration for initially underestimating the scope of the disaster, and then overreacting politically.

TAGS: Bob Graham, BP Oil Spill, Business, Dan Gaetz, Florida Panhandle, Gulf of Mexico, News, President Barack Obama, Thad Allen, William Reilly, Politics

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Rubio Disses Crist's 'Political Photo Ops' in Gulf

By: Kenric Ward | Posted: July 12, 2010 6:00 PM

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio floated the creation of a "Gulf Empowerment Zone" Monday while dismissing Gov. Charlie Crist's cleanup efforts as a "photo op."

"The economic impact of this spill is as big as the environmental impact," Rubio said during a teleconference in which he hammered both the Obama administration and Crist, his chief rival in this fall's U.S. Senate race.

TAGS: Adam Putnam, Alex Sink, Charlie Crist, Dan Gaetz, gulf oil spill, Jeff Miller, Marco Rubio, News, Panhandle, Politics

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Politics of Gulf Oil Spill: Charlie Crist's Tar Baby

By: Kenric Ward | Posted: July 8, 2010 4:05 AM

When Charlie Crist appeared on a Pensacola beach with President Barack Obama last month, there was no hug. Yet the widely publicized photo op didn't mean Floridians were embracing their "independent" governor, either.

Conventional wisdom in the media suggests that Crist has raised his profile, and his popularity, amid the oily mess spewing in the Gulf. Recent polls showing him retaking the lead in the U.S. Senate race point to the governor's role in protecting Florida's shores. A cartoon in the Miami Herald even showed him walking on water while a marooned Marco Rubio looks on.

TAGS: Alex Sink, Bill McCollum, Bobby Jindal, BP Oil Spill, Charlie Crist, Dan Gaetz, Dave Aronberg, Gulf, Haley Barbour, Jeff Greene, Jeff Miller, Marco Rubio, News, Washington Post, Politics

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Nurse Practitioners Rally, Hoping to Write Prescriptions

By: Kevin Derby | Posted: March 24, 2010 5:22 PM

Health care continued to dominate the Florida Legislature Wednesday -- this time with nurse practitioners demanding to be able to write prescriptions.

More than 300 nurse practitioners rallied at the Capitol to lobby for legislation that would allow them to prescribe medicines. Florida and Alabama are the only two states in the nation that don't allow nurse practitioners to prescribe controlled medicine.

Bills in the House and Senate would change the law. But, neither has much of a chance of passing during the session.

TAGS: Dan Gaetz, FMA, Mike Bennett, News, Nick Thompson, nurses, prescriptions, Yolly Roberson, Government

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