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    Nov 16, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  1. Florida slowly improving its economic-development accountability

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE – Florida's economic-development strategy for years has been a taxpayer-financed piggy bank handing out big bucks to companies that made grand job-creation promises and were seldom held accountable for their flops. That's been changing...
  2. Nov 20, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  3. New diverse faces, challenges, emerge in Tallahassee

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Legislature's new class of legislators are taking the oath in Tallahassee today, and a host of challenges await them. All told, 44 new House members and 15 new senators are taking office, some new and some re-treads. In the...
  4. Nov 19, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  5. Weatherford, Gaetz, promising to change the Capitol culture

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — The two men taking the reins of the Florida Legislature this week are a character-study of shifting political eras. Incoming House Speaker Will Weatherford is the epitome of how term limits have accelerated the race to power: The...
  6. Nov 20, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  7. Gaetz: Counties to blame for election fallout?

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — New Senate President Don Gaetz wants to usher in ethics reform and greater health-care access, but he also pledged Tuesday to get to the bottom of this month's election fiasco — and he is pointing a finger at South Florida...
  8. Nov 20, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  9. Gaetz talks ethics, higher ed and voting in speech

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — State Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, was officially sworn in as the Senate President for 2012-2014 and promised to make changes in the state leading to stricter ethical guidelines for lawmakers, improved elections and a better higher...
  10. Nov 28, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  11. Senate releases committee list

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — The Senate has released its Committee list for the 2013 legislative session. In key positions: Senate President Pro Tempore Garrett Richter will head the new committee on gambling. Appropriations Chairman Joe Negron, R-Stuart, will...
  12. Sep 21, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  13. Republican legislative candidates maneuvering in leadership races

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    It’s the one vote that candidates for the Florida Legislature can cast even before they are elected: Whom to support for the powerful posts of speaker of the House or president of the Senate. And some of the Republican candidates in Central Florida&...
  14. Sep 14, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  15. Gaetz, Smith blocking DEO attempt to take over its incentive monitoring

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE – On the heels of another major economic incentive deal gone bust, two top Florida senators are blocking an attempt by Gov. Rick Scott's job-creation agency to take over monitoring of the millions paid out to companies for creating jobs....
  16. Sep 20, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  17. Gaetz/Gardiner and Co. use FSU-Clemson game to raise coin

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — While the game is a sellout, there is apparently room for some like-minded and deep-pocketed Republicans to watch Saturday night's much-hyped Florida State-Clemson football game alongside some of the Legislature's most powerful...
  18. Oct 1, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  19. Scott and Jindal raising coin at LSU-Florida game

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal plan to raise cash together this Saturday in Gainesville ahead of the top-ten football showdown between No. 4-ranked LSU and the No. 10-ranked Florida Gators. The cash is for...
  20. Sep 12, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  21. After a dour half-decade, Florida budget picture inches closer to ‘rosy’

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — For the first time in five years, Florida policymakers are looking at a horizon free of projected budget shortfalls, thanks to growing tax collections and cuts to classrooms, road-building and the state’s social safety net. The...
  22. Oct 16, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel
  23. Incoming Senate Prez: Hukill will win ‘handily’

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — If incoming Senate President Don Gaetz has anything to say about it, state Rep. Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, will be a member of the Senate come November. “I would expect Dorothy to win and I think she'll win rather handily,&#...
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