By Timothy J. Gibbons

JAX Chamber will name state Rep. Daniel Davis as its new president and chief executive officer Friday afternoon, according to sources familiar with the selection process.

The organization he will take over the leadership of is one of the biggest chambers in the nation, with a $7 million annual budget, about 3,000 members and 50 employees.

By David Bauerlein

A nonprofit run by former Jacksonville Port Authority board member Reggie Gaffney overbilled Medicaid by almost $1.4 million, according to an audit by the state Agency for Health Care Administration.

The state is seeking to recoup the money from Community Rehabilitation Center and also assess a $111,000 fine.

A plan by Internet retailing giant Amazon.com to build at least one warehouse in Florida has been scrapped, with the company unable to reach an agreement on when it would have to start collecting state sales taxes, an official in Gov. Rick Scott’s office said Thursday, reports David Royse of the News Service of Florida. 

With the deadline approaching to sign the new budget, Gov. Rick Scott wants several organizations to pledge a return of state funding if they fail to produce promised economic benefits, reports Jim Turner of the News Service of Florida.

Gov. Rick Scott reappointed three agency heads to their posts today, and they'll get another shot at Senate confirmation next year. If that doesn't happen, Surgeon General John Armstrong, Corrections Secretary Michael Crews and Department of Economy Opportunity executive director Jesse Panuccio will be out of a job.

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A former partner of Florida Republican money man and oil billionaire Harry Sargeant III should get interest on a nearly $29 million court judgment, as well as the principal already awarded against Sargeant, a Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday.

Legislative leadership, particularly on the Senate side, didn’t get a pass from a Tallahassee group that annually highlights pork-barrel spending in the state budget, reports Jim Turner of the News Service of Florida.

Yes, Florida TaxWatch’s annual “turkey” list, released Thursday, did not include a $50 million coast-to-coast bicycle and foot path backed by a central Florida senator who is in line to take the helm of the chamber in 2014.

@MDixon55

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is pushing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help St. Johns County potato farms after recent severe weather “caused the loss of about two-thirds of the local potato crop.”

“These farmers in St. Johns County were hit by a hailstorm right at the outset of their biggest potato harvest month, which is May,” he wrote in a letter sent Thursday to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

A new review of salary data by Bloomberg finds that women who head up the top K Street trade associations earn about $600,000 less than their male peers on average.

Crime in Florida dropped 6.5 percent in 2012 from 2011, with violent crimes overall down 4.3 percent, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s annual Uniform Crime Report released Thursday. But while incidents of robbery and aggravated assault were down, according to the FDLE report, the numbers of murders and forcible sex offenses increased.