Category: Issues

Dec 9, 2015 4:05 PM

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Lawmakers protect title loan firms while borrowers pay sky-high interest rates

By Fred Schulte
Center for Public Integrity
It’s legal in about half the states to pledge a car title as collateral for short-term loans of a few hundred dollars or more. Many of these states allow lenders to tack on interest that can top 300 percent, and to seize and sell off cars when borrowers fail to pay.
Dec 9, 2015 5:10 AM

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Broward auditors find $24.5 million runway project overrun

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A secret Broward County Auditor’s report has found a $24.5 million cost overrun in the construction of the new south runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Dec 8, 2015 4:59 PM

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Critics fault new highway law for concessions to trucking industry

By Brian Joseph
FairWarning
A $305 billion highway bill approved by Congress and signed by President Obama last week includes several provisions aggressively sought by the trucking industry that, critics say, will undermine traffic safety.
Nov 30, 2015 5:12 AM

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Back to the future: Bill would bring back disgraced office of Miami-Dade Sheriff

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A bill that would resurrect the office of Sheriff of Miami-Dade County, a post abolished by voters 49 years ago in the wake of scandal, is winding its way through the Florida House.
Nov 24, 2015 6:09 AM

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Plaza Health Network cited repeatedly by feds, state for nursing home violations

By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Plaza Health Network, the embattled nursing home chain that six months ago agreed to pay $21.5 million to settle federal civil charges that it defrauded Medicare and Medicaid, has habitually violated state and federal healthcare regulations by providing inadequate, and at times negligent, care to residents at its facilities.
Nov 20, 2015 10:14 AM

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GOP governors, including Rick Scott, take cue from Obama on how to push policy

By Rachael Baye
Center for Public Integrity
Political organizations tied to Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner are diverging from the typical so-called leadership PACs used by federal lawmakers and some governors to amass power because they are not just giving campaign contributions to like-minded legislators. Instead they are pushing the governors’ legislative agendas with public campaigns far removed from the campaign trail.