As CEO of the country's largest hospital chain, Rick Scott earned a reputation for setting aggressive cost-saving goals and constantly monitoring the progress. Now that he's Florida's incoming governor, he wants to "measure the living daylights&... Read More
After reading hundreds of pages of reports from the transition teams to Gov.-elect Rick Scott, one section stood out today, authored by Sam Forrest, Florida Power & Light's vice president of Energy Marketing and Trading. Although t... Read More
All four full-time employees working in the governor's Office of Drug Control were told Friday by Gov.-elect Rick Scott that their services will no longer be needed after he takes office. That's raised concerns by people fighting Florida's prescri... Read More
Florida TaxWatch CEO Dominic Calabro says implementing some of the recommendations made by Rick Scott's transition team on juvenile justice will save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. Specifically, Calabro's organization and the Southern Pove... Read More
PolitiFact Florida analyzed a claim made by state Rep. Marty Kiar, D-Davie, in a meeting Gov.-elect Rick Scott held with lawmakers earlier this month. Kiar, a Democrat who serves on the House PreK-12 appropriations subcommittee, told Scott, "You c... Read More
Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott gave every indication in recent weeks that Florida schools are in for a wild ride. And on Tuesday, his education transition team lived up to the hype. In a 20-page report, the 20-member team offered one radical recomm... Read More
Gov.-elect Rick Scott's law and order transition team slams the police unions and the state's PRIDE program in a report on the Department of Corrections released today. The introduction to the report calls the DOC "broken" and "lack... Read More
A report released today by Gov.-elect Rick Scott's law and order transition team recommends combining the Department of Juvenile Justice with the Department of Children and Families. That wouldn't happen, though, for at least two years. First, the comm... Read More
Incoming Gov. Rick Scott should fold the three agencies now overseeing environmental protection, growth management and transportation into a single agency called the Department of Growth Leadership, according to a report Monday from a transition team h... Read More
As the Legislature and now Gov.-elect Rick Scott consider giving doctors immunity from lawsuits in return for treating Medicaid patients, a new report warns that such an arrangement would cost taxpayers at least $69 million a year. Ch... Read More
