Statewide Reports - April

NOTE - 
If the link to the on-line articles has changed, search the paper's archive section by date and title - Palm Beach Post links are only good for the day posted, and there is a fee to access archived articles. 

4/30/01
Tallahassee Democrat - Bill Cotterell - 'Service First' gets new look in the Senate
Pay to go up, but so will premiums 
Tampa Tribune - DEP official says halt site probe
Elections, railway unsettled in budget
Lawyers take deal on nursing home suits
Orlando Sentinel - Budget is nearly a done deal
5 days to go, and almost nothing has been decided by legislature
Celebrities, politicians among university nominees
Tying growth to schools hits another hurdle
Palm Beach Post - Misc. legislative news
Budget: Tuition increase set for state universities
Column: Workers comp 'reform' to die for
Saint Petersburg Times- Often, a victim's last hope rides on state claims bill
Tuition set to go up again
4/29/01
Tampa Tribune - Losing the forest to the trees
Palm Beach Post - Column: Chiles' legacy lost under successor
Tallahassee Democrat - Major legislation ahead
Miami Herald - Priorities in limbo as session nears end -
Fears arise along Gulf over oil drilling idea 
4/27/01
Miami Herald -  Chess team makes the right moves - With film in works, Jackson kids playing at national tournament
College leader hunts may change - Searches could become secret
House, Senate close to budget deal
CARL HIAASEN -J. Bubba separates himself from W.
Legislative Roundup
Overrun in prisons challenged - Investigation sought of $12M overpaid for medical care
Tobacco foes, lawmakers clash on use of funds from settlement
Bill that targets Regents assailed by Democrats - Senate vote due next week
Tallahassee Democrat Political tensions overflow with scarce water -
Florida springs focus of dispute - Bottled water faces battle amid drought
Senate wants runoffs removed
House gives approval to growth management bill
Senator, Bush meet on transition position - Education overhaul gets OK in House
Legislative briefs
Saint Petersburg Times - Legislature 2001
Teacher programs funding trimmed - The House eliminated $36-million earmarked for training and recruitment
Elder care bill makes headway in Senate - A nursing home trade group cheers the proposal, but trial attorneys criticize it.
Reject Secret Hiring
4/22/01
Miami Herald - Hiassen editorial -Get ready for Marlins Rebate II
Tallahassee Democrat - Editorial: Florida to feds: No means no to oil drilling
Gainesville Sun - Sun Editorial: Hold the drilling
Sun Editorial: Official secrets
Crowd protests proposed cuts
Orlando Sentinel - An oily slope
. . . deny Chevron's request
Johnson's mileage payments look 'bad'
Tampa Tribune - Legislature leaves patrol shorthanded
Palm Beach Post - Editorial: W. gives Jeb the gas
Editorial: Senate must head off assault
Budget stuffed with pet projects
Florida Times Union - Parents should be very cautious about arsenic levels
4/21/01
Miami Herald - State leaders set for `high noon'
Legislative leaders clash over tax cut -Gov. Bush urges end to `posturing'
Tallahassee Democrat - Tax cuts dividing legislators 
St. Petersburg Times - Legislature 2001
Senate plans a break for teachers' math scores
Bush questions New College independence
Gainesville Sun - Bush to consider trustees from the academic world
Arsenic stances contradictory
Florida Times Union - Mysterious Itera reveals some details
Questions remain about Russian company 
Palm Beach Post - GOP: Minority voters key to future elections
Gov. Bush pushes brother to oppose offshore drilling
Using aquifer for storage roils political waters
Editorial: If nursing-home bill doesn't change, kill it
Editorial: Bad ruling by Sauls

 4/20/01
Palm Beach Post - Campaign reform bill GOP plot, critic say
President set to OK drilling off Fla.President set to OK drilling off Fla.
McKay offers intangibles tax cut to end impasse
Miami Herald - Election reform bills tap Harris --Secretary of state likely to set rules
Lawmaker bails out of water storage plan
St. Petersburg Times - Miller changing vote on aquifer -Tampa Democratic Sen. Les Miller will say no to the plan to store tainted water in Florida's underground supply.
State begins prison inquiry - The FDLE will look into guards' complaints of discrimination.
Orlando Sentinel - Little-known Rep. Trovillion wins notoriety
Feeney discards offer of tax-cut compromise
Gainesville Sun - Senate panel slices nursing home bill
4/19/01
Tallahassee Democrat - Bushes at odds over drilling
Miami Herald - Timetable to sell oil rich seabed
Tallahassee Ticker
St. Petersburg Times - It's Bush vs Bush in gulf drilling battle
Palm Beach Post - McKay switches tax cut stand
4/18/01
Tallahassee Democrat -Dear Senate: Please compromise
"House Speaker Tom Feeney says if the Senate cuts 1,593 more state employees and kills about $100 million of lawmakers' “turkeys," there would be room in the $43.3 billion budget for tax cuts as well as Senate priorities."(Nancy C. Lauer)
St Petersburg Times - McKay signals some flexibility on tax cuts
Palm Beach Post - Feeney gets advice from lawyer with insurer tie
Speaker's budget gambit: Spend more, cut taxes
New nursing home owners challenged
Miami Herald - Tallahassee Ticker

 4/17/01
Palm BeachPost - House OKs aquifer water storage
Lawyer: Lawmakers 'mocked' court order
St Petersburg times - Legislature weighs slashing programs for poor
Critics: Aquifer at risk from proposal
While some fear contamination from plans to pump in untreated water, supporters say it will save millions.
4/16/01   
Tallahassee Democrat - Frankel leads Democrats with new style 
Capital Watch: Bill may put prayer in hands of students 
Bill Cotterell: It's about fairness Š and the money, too

 

Orlando Sentinel - House opens aquifer to untreated water 
School prayer advances in House
4/15/01
St. Petersburg Times - Rep. Jim Davis wants to fix the Republican problem in Tallahassee
Palm beach Post -Use of state money by private schools spurs scrutiny
Florida Times Union - Growth reform faces challenge from developers
It's time for lawmakers to dismount on Rodman issue
Miami Herald - Hiassen column 
Tallahassee Democrat -One Florida ban may stifle MBA diversity
Orlando Sentinel- Stay out of land-buying money
Gainesville Sun - Not so part time


4/14/01
Baker County - Standard - If it ain't broke don't fix it
Miami Herald - Stadium plan may cost millions
check out Carl Hiassen's latest column here
Lobbyin' been good to me...
Legislators appeal to higher court in contempt case
Naples Daily News - Wildlife raid charges fizzle
Ocala Star Banner - State considers pumping waste water into aquifer
Orlando Sentinel - DCF questions judges impartiality
Bush opposes contempt case 
St. Augustine.com - Eagles or a condominium? Is that a choice?
Apalachicola Times - Kendrick blasts Bush's plan

 

4/10/01
St. Petersburg Times - 600 protest career service reform
legislature daily - Bush's wishes buffeted
Miami Herald - Lawmakers aim to relax water standards
State Workers Rally against Bush Plan
Tallahassee Ticker
Florida Times Union - State workers protest Bush labor proposal
2001 Legislature Notes
Palm Beach Post - Investors, developers quietly enter nursing-home fight
Workers rally against civil service change

 

4/9/01
Tallahassee Democrat - "Service First" only a Tallahassee issue?
4/8/01
Palm Beach Post - Tallahassee 'revolution' War on past
By Randy Schultz Sunday, April 8, 2001 (Note; the link might change and you may need to search by title after 4/8/01 - very good editorial  demonstrating pitfalls in Governor's plan, and that this is a statewide issue, not just in Tallahassee as some would have our legislators believe)
Tallahassee Democrat - GOP legacy will be about power-grabbing

4/7/01
Miami Herald - You can challenge city hall
Enron power plant in Pompano Beach waits on air permit
Dept Juvenile Justice contract in Miami-Dade draws questions
State's new autopsy law hinders doctors
Money in Politics - Feeney's jet trip with GOP lobbyists
More on effect of new state autopsy law
Miccosukee tribe in Glades vanishes from the U.S. census
Tampa Tribune - Tax private companies on public lands?
We need to take another look at "development" - will we ever do it?
JEB and his youthful staff need to hit the brakes on government reform
Impoundment fees vs. victim rights
Desalination plant for Tampa-Bay?
Pendulum swings on election reform
St. Petersburg Times - Using reading test scores to push for "Phonics"
Governor chooses to keep interviews relevant to "Florida"
Legislative update - manatees, port taxation
Gainesville Sun - First year in the State Legislature is tough
Check Alachua county's air emission page
4/5/01
St.Petersburg Times - House at odds with Governor over Rodman Dam
Palm Beach Post - Tax cut debate stalling budget
Miami Herald - Union backs off on order to stop panel's meeting
Gainesville Sun - Legislative cuts might hurt recycling effort
Florida Times Union - Ban on low cost gasoline continues
Tallahassee Democrat - Service First battle heats up 
Herald Tribune Newscoast - Phosphate safety bill
4/4/01
St. Petersburg Times - Legislators ignore judge's order on labor talks
Orlando Sentinel (On 3/22/01 passage of house bill)
Orlando Sentinel - No new state funds for schools
Palm Beach Post - Panel members ignore judges order not to meet
Miami Herald - Lawmakers defy order, hold meeting
Gainesville Sun - report on union meeting
Florida Times Union - Panel rejects task force on racial profiling 
Tallahassee Democrat - Service first panned in arbiter's report - 4/3/01


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