By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Editor’s note: This is a July 13 update of a story first published June 3.
State Rep. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, petitioned the Florida Supreme Court Monday to stop Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest appointee to the high court from taking her seat.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida’s top gun lobbyist Marion Hammer faces a probable cause hearing next week before the Florida Commission on Ethics regarding her failure to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from the National Rifle Association.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The FBI agent who led the post 9/11 investigation of Saudis who moved out of their Sarasota-area home under suspicious circumstances two weeks before the 2001 al Qaeda attacks urged the FBI to seek information from the CIA about whether they assisted the terrorist hijackers.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
State regulators did what they could to prevent the Fort Lauderdale sewer mess that experts predicted years before a major pipeline sprang leaks in December–and kept on spewing waste for almost three months. But Fort Lauderdale failed to protect itself. Now, in the middle of a pandemic, the city is fighting a costly rearguard action to restore the sewage system, rescue marine life and preserve clean water.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Two weeks after BSO paid South Carolina’s North American Rescue LLC as much as $750,000 last year to buy bleeding-control kits, the company’s CEO contributed $5,000 to Sheriff Gregory Tony’s political action committee. Eleven days ago, the PAC reported getting $10,000 from an “unemployed” South Carolina woman who in fact works for North American.
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