Ashley Lopez: Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill into law today that would create some transparency in the state’s controversial economic incentives program.

Ashley Lopez: Gov. Rick Scott signed bills into law that will reform some of the state’s campaign finance laws and enact new ethics rules for public officials in the state.

Ashley Lopez: An inspector general report found that the process for doling out millions of taxpayer dollars to private companies hasn’t changed much since Florida handed $20 million to Digital Domain — a movie graphics company in Port St. Lucie that filed for bankruptcy and laid off its entire staff.

Ashley Lopez: Organizations ranging from tea party groups to the liberal Progress Florida have banded together to oppose a bill intended to improve the state’s ineffective ethics rules. The ethics bill doesn’t go far enough, these groups say.

Ashley Lopez: A Florida Senate bill intended to improve ethics rules passed unanimously in committee — but only after legislators stripped out a provision that would have prohibited current state lawmakers from lobbying the governor immediately after they retire.

Ashley Lopez: Campaign finance experts and voting rights advocates say proposed campaign finance reforms won’t improve the fairness of elections — and might even make things worse.

Ashley Lopez: Is the state agency charged with attracting jobs to Florida doing its own job?

Ashley Lopez: A group connected to the Koch brothers helped fund an Integrity Florida study of the state’s economic incentives program.

Ashely Lopez: On Tuesday, an ethics bill aimed at addressing Tallahassee’s “revolving door”– the movement of government employees from lobbying firms to the positions they lobbied — cleared a Senate panel.

Ashley Lopez: Gov. Rick Scott has announced that he will take a look at other possible budget transparency programs in Florida.