Steve Bousquet, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE — The first campaign promise Gov. Rick Scott kept allows him to travel with the privacy and luxury of a CEO while living in the fishbowl of public office. As a candidate in 2010, Scott said it was a waste of money for Florida to have two airplanes for […]
State parks’ ‘friends’ upset by bills that may kill them off
They build nature centers. They volunteer as tour guides. Some of them even pay park rangers’ salaries. Florida’s state parks wouldn’t win national prizes if it weren’t for the 111 “Friends of” groups that help support them, groups such as the 345-member Friends of the Island Parks in Dunedin. But the groups say a pair […]
Lawsuit: Attorney general’s office deleted emails
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Tallahassee attorney embroiled in an ongoing land dispute with the state contends in a new court filing that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office deleted or withheld emails he was seeking. Steven Andrews, who has been a persistent critic of Gov. Rick Scott, is involved in a lawsuit over attempts […]