Dean Cannon

TALLAHASSEE — Lawyers representing the Florida House, U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown and Mario Diaz-Balart, state House and Senate Democrats, and voting-rights groups squared off in an ongoing legal fight last week over the Fair Districts standards the...

UCF President John Hitt is to speak to state lawmakers later this morning, as part of a “collegial dialogue” on higher education in Florida. The presidents of UF and FSU spoke to the Florida House's education committee on Friday, urging more...

TALLAHASSEE — House Speaker Dean Cannon just released budget allocations for committees to begin piecing together a spending plan that would boost per-pupil spending by about 2.3 percent — in line with the increase Gov. Rick Scott requested...

TALLAHASSEE — Happy Monday and welcome back to work. It's likely to be a busy start to the week, so we'll get moving on the top five stories you should be reading this morning. * The Sun-Sentinel writes that undecided voters may be the key to...

TALLAHASSEE — The new political maps the Florida Legislature is debating could deliver a sharp new Democratic-tilt to the longtime Republican hub of Metro Orlando. Although Orange County has shifted Democratic by registration during the last decade,...

By now everyone should be familiar with Florida’s new voter suppression law. If you have no idea as to what I’m talking about, let me break it down for you: last session, our state legislators decided that they wanted to make it more difficult...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House of Representatives voted along party lines Friday for new political maps that would reflect the state's growing diversity, but which critics contend would perpetuate the engineering of one-party control of government....

TALLAHASSEE – Sunrise man Eric Brody, who was left brain injured and in a wheelchair from a car accident 14 years ago with a Broward sheriff’s deputy, will get his time before the Florida House Friday. The House Civil Justice Subcommittee is...

TALLAHASSEE — House Speaker Dean Cannon had his official portrait mounted on the chamber's inner ring of former leaders Tuesday, and used the occasion to take yet another shot at former Gov. Charlie Crist. Cannon, a Winter Park Republican who is...

Florida’s tourism industry is one of the big winners in the final state budget. Though it cuts funding for everything from hospitals to universities, the Florida Legislature’s roughly $70 billion spending plan includes a huge boost for...

The dolphin “Winter,” the tail-less star of a Clearwater aquarium and the movie “A Dolphin Tale,” was popular enough to persuade the Florida Legislature to loosen its grip on hotel taxes. By a 38-2 vote, the Florida Senate on...

TALLAHASSEE — House Speaker Dean Cannon gave his farewell remarks to the chamber Thursday, referencing the turbulence the Legislature has experienced during his eight years in office and imploring them to continue resisting compromise. The Winter...