Don Gaetz

Money from Walt Disney World appears to be bankrolling TV ads for state Rep. Rachel Burgin in her bitter primary fight with past Senate President Tom Lee for a Tampa-area Senate seat, records show. According to the new election filings, Disney wrote a...

A major Las Vegas casino company announced Tuesday that it will partner with the Florida Panthers' parent company in an attempt to bring casino gambling to Sunrise. Boyd Gaming, which owns 17 casinos, said it will work with Sunrise Sports Entertainment,...

More than two years ago, Florida lawmakers agreed to pay CSX Corp. more than $400 million to acquire the tracks needed for Central Florida's planned SunRail commuter train. As part of the deal, CSX said it would reinvest the money in several rail projects...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Chamber of Commerce, the most well-heeled business lobby in the Capitol, has issued its legislative endorsements, and the roster includes a few head-turners in Central Florida. The Chamber is endorsing Victoria Siplin,...

TALLAHASSEE — While it's been two years since Congress passed its federal health-care reform, a few states like Florida have been quite publicly resisting efforts to phase in the law. We wrote today about the fiscal argument Gov. Rick Scott has been...

TALLAHASSEE — The influential business lobbying group Associated Industries of Florida has released its first batch of endorsements for the 2012 elections, and avoided taking a side in virtually every high-profile Orlando-area contest. The group's...

A new law requires Florida-chartered banks to report information to the state on any accounts that might be linked to foreign financial institutions supporting terrorism. Aimed at Iran, the law stemmed from efforts by the Jewish Federations in Palm Beach....

TALLAHASSEE — Likening it to a “single payer” socialized system, a cadre of two dozen legislators — most of them from Central Florida and other inland locales — has written an open letter to the new head of the state-run...

TALLAHASSEE — The federal Department of Justice has OK'd Florida's proposed legislative and congressional maps, clearing one of the remaining hurdles for the newly drawn districts to be in place in time for the June 4-8 candidate qualifying period....

TALLAHASSEE — In a nod to his Senate counterpart, House Redistricting Chairman Will Weatherford announced Friday his chamber wouldn't be drawing its own maps for new Senate districts — and would defer to the Legislature's upper chamber on...