Category: Issues
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Proposed laws would allow billions in Florida retirement, other funds to be invested in risky Bitcoin
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Republican legislators have filed bills that would authorize politicians and bureaucrats who oversee Florida’s General Revenue Fund, the Florida Retirement System (FRS), the Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and other huge state funds to invest up to 10 percent of their cash in Bitcoin and “other digital assets.” -
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony gets nicked, but dodges another landmine. How does he do it?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff “Dr.” Gregory Tony, wrist dutifully slapped by the state commission that sets police standards, is back on top again. But how does he continue to dodge multiple landmines that would have exploded the careers of most other politicians? -
As big money flows, Boca Raton’s GEO Group readies for migrant evacuation on an industrial scale
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Remember the duck test? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. What then to make President Trump’s decision on Day One of his second, non-consecutive term to revoke President Biden’s 2021 executive order phasing out Justice Department contracts with private prison companies? -
DeSantis lost bid to kill your right to change law by ballot initiative, but he’ll be back
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Roxey Nelson wants a word with anybody who doesn’t care if Gov. Ron DeSantis gets the Legislature to help him make voter initiatives vanish. -
LNG ‘Bomb trains’ should stop rolling on FEC tracks after appellate court’s order
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Federal judges have struck down President Trump’s first-term decision that led to rules allowing so-called “bomb trains” transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to roll through densely populated cities along the Florida East Coast Railway. -
Whistleblower accuses Port Everglades’s Cliff Berry Inc., two other clean-up companies of fraud, illegally dumping oily sludge
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Port Everglades’s Cliff Berry Inc., two other clean-up companies accused of fraud and illegally dumping oily sludge.
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