• Florida’s legislative session ends on March 13th. And even though most of the big decisions have been made, the most important one is still being debated – the state budget. Economic analyst Hank Fishkind chats about the sticking points in the budget.
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• As Florida’s annual legislative session gets underway, economic analyst Hank Fishkind predicts that a fight over the budget is likely to dominate the proceedings.
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• While the University of Central Florida downtown campus survived Gov. Rick Scott’s veto process, some $24 million of state funding for projects in central Florida did not.
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• Last week, Gov. Rick Scott single-handedly vetoed funding for a 10-page list of local and statewide projects that legislators hoped to included in the state’s 2015 budget. The cuts totaled $461 million from the $78 billion state budget. One area where Scott’s cuts hit particularly hard: health care for the poor. Among his bigger cuts was $9.5 million for the Florida Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, which supports free and low-cost clinics that provide health-care to low-income communities across the state. According to the governor’s letter pronouncing his budget plan, which he boasts will save Floridians money on their cable and phone bills, the line item for the free clinics was cut because it’s not being used directly for …
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• The state budget up for a vote Friday doesn’t include any language to extend film incentives- and industry leaders says jobs will leave Florida.
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• Governor Rick Scott on Monday announced plans to ask state lawmakers for $7.4 million to build two nursing homes for veterans.
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