Category: Issues
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Medicaid cuts top Broward Health’s concerns for the 2013 legislative session
By Karla Bowsher
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward Health could lose at least $6.5 million a year if Tallahassee lawmakers ignore their pleas not to reduce Medicaid health insurance payments. That’s on top of $179 million the north Broward public hospital system expects to lose to federal cutbacks over the next decade. -
Florida Senate passes sweeping ethics reform package
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Center for Public Integrity
The Republican-controlled Florida Senate unanimously passed a landmark ethics reform package on Tuesday, the first day of the legislative session, setting the stage for what could be the first major changes to the state’s ethics laws in decades. -
Broward Inspector General slams Hallandale for “gross mismanagement”; CRAs elsewhere eyed
By William Gjebre and Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward’s Inspector General has found that Hallandale Beach officials “grossly mismanaged” millions of dollars in public funds “entrusted to the care of its Community Redevelopment Agency,” says report. -
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Oops…Florida lawmakers scramble to repeal foreign driving law
By Lloyd Dunkelberger and Michael Pollick
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers said they will work to alter or overturn a new law that requires Canadian and other foreign travelers to obtain international permits to drive in Florida. -
Canadian tourists fear insurance implications of state’s new driving rule
By Michael Pollick and Justine Griffin
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
ust because a law isn’t being enforced doesn’t mean it can’t still bite you — in the wallet, anyway. In the international driver’s license furor now straining relations between the Sunshine State and the Great North, insurance appears to be the rub. -
Altered rules let ex-Hallandale city manager’s son-in-law join lucrative pension plan
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach officials altered city pension guidelines to enable the son-in-law of former city manager Mike Good to join a lucrative management-only pension plan after it was closed to additional employees.
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