by Sarah Rumpf | Dec 4, 2017
Former Democratic Congresswoman and poster child for extreme gerrymandering Corrine Brown was sentenced Monday to a five year prison term for her role in a charity fraud scheme. As the Tampa Bay Times reported, Brown was accused of running a sham charitable fund...
by Sarah Rumpf | Nov 1, 2017
State Rep. Daisy Baez delivered a nasty trick to Florida Democrats this Halloween, as her legal woes will now result in Republicans gaining a supermajority in the Florida House. Baez was facing perjury charges related to a complaint that she did not live in her Coral...
by Capitolist Staff | Aug 16, 2016
For the second time in three years, Floridians will go to the polls in November and weigh in on a proposed state constitutional amendment that, if passed, would legalize medical marijuana. A similar proposal failed in 2014 — by less than 3 percentage points — amid...
by Capitolist Staff | Aug 2, 2016
For decades, Florida’s prison population has far outpaced the state’s population growth. But that appears to be changing. Office of Economic and Demographic Research officials meeting at the state Capitol last week predicted an increase of about 1,000 inmates over the...
by Sarah Rumpf | Jul 23, 2016
Here’s a much-needed positive story about a college athlete making headlines for all the right reasons. Early Thursday morning, Cristian Garcia, a walk-on linebacker for the Florida Gators, helped rescue a woman being sexually assaulted behind a Gainesville bar...
