As a teenager growing up in South Florida, I often found myself listening in the evening to the Allen Courtney Program on Miami’s vanguard AM station, WQAM 560. As I got …
When Governor Chiles and Lieutenant Governor Mackay asked me to head up a special initiative for them in 1991 on solid waste disposal and recyclin ...
Governor Reubin Askew surrounded himself with extraordinary talent, as has been mentioned before in this Blog, Quorum Call and my book, The Golden Yea ...
It is often said you always remember your first of everything. It certainly is true of my first legislative campaign in 1972. As I pointed out in ...
‘The ugly hallmark of the legislature during most of the 2000 decade has been to attack the depressed economy on the backs of those that do not have high powered lobbyists.’ ...
When Lt. Governor Buddy Mackay asked me to join the Chiles Administration in 1991, I found a number of old and new friends among the Governor’s inside circle of advisers. ...
Although it is probably not ideal to admit, as a former lawmaker, that I actually “feared” lobbyists, it is true that I did…at least one. I disclose lobbyist in my ...
