01/5/16 – By Noah Pranksy HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Florida — County commissioners are set to move forward Wednesday with rewritten policies regarding lobbyist registration and public records requests following 10Investigates stories exposing failures in oversight. The changes will include issuing county-owned cell phones to commissioners for public business, where text messages can be better-archived. However, commissioners’ […]
Taxpayers pick up tab on commissioner, Buckhorn ethics cases -Tampa bay Sarasota 10 News
By Noah Pransky TAMPA, Florida – With the punch of a button – and little more – Hillsborough Co. Commissioners approved spending up to $40,000 to defend ethics complaints lodged against commissioners Ken Hagan and Sandy Murman following a 10 Investigates series exposing a controversial consultant’s behind-the-scenes influence on – and access to – county […]
Another Redistricting Fight Looms in Leon County – Politics in Polk
TALLAHASSEE | As lawmakers and both political parties wait for a Florida Supreme Court decision on disputed congressional districts — a ruling that could come as soon as today — the two sides of the long-running legal fight over Florida’s political boundaries are girding for another battle in the Leon County Courthouse. A trial on […]
