It’s a question still whispered at Jacksonville City Hall: Why did recently reelected Councilman Rory Diamond leave his cushy $300,000-plus job last November? Diamond, after all, not only made that huge salary from the nonprofit K9s For Warriors, which provides...
When U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds is mentioned in the media, his name is routinely preceded by the same two words: “rising star.” Donalds has completed just one two-year term in Congress but is already a serious force in his party. The Naples Republican dominated the...
It started with something most journalists in Florida will tell you is commonplace: a public records request with a state agency that takes a ridiculous amount of time to fulfill. But Mike DeForest, a veteran investigative reporter with News 6 in Orlando, didn’t...
Early last year, Caroline Klancke, one of Florida’s preeminent ethics experts, stood at a crossroads. She was serving as general counsel and executive deputy director of the Florida Ethics Commission at the time, a job she loved with colleagues she describes as...
As an elected official, Vincent Moretti’s job is to oversee the North Springs Improvement District (NSID), a public utility that services large portions of Coral Springs and Parkland. A big part of the 58-year-old NSID board president’s responsibility is...
Rae Ann Burton sat in the Collier County Commission meeting on the morning before Hurricane Ian struck, wondering why she had to be there at all. With the county already under both a state of emergency and a storm surge warning, the 77-year-old Golden Gate Estates...
