Category: Issues
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Complaint to the Florida Bar: ICE’s loudest courtroom champion endangers judges with flimsy gripes
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Retired judges from across the nation who fear for their colleagues are using a Florida Bar complaint to turn a government lawyer’s inflammatory words against him. -
Jeffrey Epstein breached 2007 non-prosecution agreement five times, but Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office did zip
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Notorious New York financier and politically connected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein violated the terms of his 2007 non-prosecution agreement five times during a two-year span after he signed the scandalous sweetheart deal. -
Everglades phosphorus pollution deadlines have finally arrived. Can Florida meet them?
By Kailey Aiken
FloridaBulldog.org
After decades of delay, Florida has reached a long-awaited milestone in Everglades restoration: the first court-ordered phosphorus pollution deadlines have arrived. But environmental advocates say the state is still falling short of producing water clean enough to protect the Everglades, while the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) argues its treatment plans are on track. -
Bacardi partners with billionaire Russian oligarch and member of Putin’s ‘inner circle’ for its bottling needs near Moscow
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Since 2022, the world has watched in horror as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and targeting of civilians have left hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians dead or wounded, forced 5.6 million Ukrainians to seek refuge abroad and displaced millions more inside the country. Through it all, Bacardi, the privately held spirits giant with substantial U.S. operations headquartered in Coral Gables, has continued to do business in Russia… -
Florida’s ‘Live Local’ law lets developers bypass public oversight while failing workforce renters, critics say
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Critics of a state law to boost affordable workforce housing claim it’s really a Big Builder welfare act intended to prevent local governments from vetting private-interest projects on behalf of the public. -
Trump DOJ Memo threatens decades of disability rights protections, tests key Florida rights case
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
To little notice by the nation’s newspapers, the Trump administration recently moved to reverse decades of disability civil rights policy through a Justice Department opinion that signals an apparent sea change in how the executive branch plans to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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