Medicaid Expansion Ballot Measure ‘On The Table’
Ashley Lopez: Advocates across the country, including in Florida, are proposing ballot initiatives to bypass legislatures unwilling to expand Medicaid.
For Orlando Postal Worker, Illness Still Mystery
Trevor Aaronson: The case of Jeffrey A. Lill, a U.S. Postal Service employee injured at a mail-sort facility in Orlando more than two years ago, is still unresolved.
Gov. Rick Scott Signs Into Law Greater Transparency for Economic Incentives
Ashley Lopez: Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill into law today that would create some transparency in the state’s controversial economic incentives program.
State Lawmakers Kept Their Cheaper Health Insurance, Denied Medicaid Expansion
Ashley Lopez: At the same time the Republican-led Florida Legislature was turning down federal funds that would pay for expanding the state's Medicaid program to more than 1 million people who cannot afford health insurance, those same state lawmakers were working to keep their own insurance premiums lower than most other state employees.
RNC’s Hispanic Outreach Director in Florida Becomes a Democrat
Ashley Lopez: Pablo Pantoja cited among his reasons for leaving a "culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party."
FCIR Wins Seven Green Eyeshade Awards
The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting took first place in three categories: public service in radio journalism, online investigative reporting and online business reporting.