Author: Dan Christensen
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Supreme Court to decide whether Marsy’s Law allows Florida cops who kill to hide from public
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The next time there’s a police-involved shooting in Florida the media may not be entitled to the name of the officer who pulled the trigger. Reporters and the public would have to trust police and prosecutors to examine their own colleagues’ actions and, if warranted, pursue charges. -
Seminole Tribe of Florida used federal COVID funds for high-stakes raffle; Did chairman’s son win $1 million?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Seminole Tribe of Florida used at least $3 million in federal COVID relief money to stage a high-stakes raffle as an incentive to get tribal members as young as 12 vaccinated. -
U.S. coughs up 9/11 Commission report on 2004 private meeting with Bush/Cheney; Bush saw no reason to pursue accountability for failures
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Part 1 – Nearly two decades after President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney answered questions for the 9/11 Commission in a closed gathering in the Oval Office, a 31-page “summary” of what they had to say finally has been made public. -
Conflicts of interest, cronyism at SFRTA, Tri-Rail’s operator, amid furtive renewal of costly lobbying contract
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The governing board of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, operator of Tri-Rail commuter service, ditched staff plans to seek bids for lobbying services and instead rehired its longtime lobbyist amid apparent cronyism, conflicts of interest and possibly wasteful spending. -
Ex-chief justice: Florida’s broad constitutional right to privacy should block abortion ban
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
As the Florida Supreme Court waits for draconian abortion restrictions to reach its docket, lawyers are road-testing their arguments for and against the deeply divisive law. -
DeSantis’s anti-vax campaign paid for in blood?Yale COVID study finds much higher death rates among Republicans
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A new Yale University School of Public Health study of excess death rates during the COVID-19 pandemic found “substantially higher” death rates among registered Republicans when compared to registered Democrats.
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