Category: Bulldog Extra
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New anti-protest laws in Florida, Oklahoma cast long shadow on First Amendment rights
By Carrie Levins
Center for Public Integrity
Tiffany Crutcher was worried. Oklahoma lawmakers had passed a new measure stiffening penalties for protesters who block roadways and granting immunity to drivers who unintentionally hit them. The state NAACP, saying the law was passed in response to racial justice demonstrations and could chill the exercising of First Amendment rights, filed a federal lawsuit challenging portions of it. But the new law was only weeks from taking effect. -
COVID death undercuts Republican efforts for FEC disclosure, ‘election integrity’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Hillsborough County Republican Executive Committee has a problem. The person who submits its electronic reports to the Federal Elections Commission died Saturday without telling others in the party how to use his software. -
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Broward spine surgeon and device company owner charged in kickback scheme
By Fred Schulte
Kaiser Health News
A Broward orthopedic surgeon and designer of costly spinal surgery implants was arrested Tuesday and charged with paying millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes to surgeons who agreed to use his company’s devices. -
Building back Biscayne Bay: Do natural solutions hold hope?
By Marlowe Starling
Mongabay
After last year’s massive fish kill, restoration efforts eye creative ways to restore biodiversity in Biscayne Bay. -
Device makers have funneled billions to orthopedic surgeons who use their products
By Fred Schulte
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Broward Health scandal flares again with guilty plea by former purchasing executive
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Five years after tax-supported Broward Health was rocked by a costly kickback scandal and news the FBI was investigating alleged corruption in the hospital network’s purchasing department, the government has gotten its first guilt plea in the case.
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