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Capital Reporter Breaks Down Winners & Losers of Legislature's Special Session

WGCU | By Matthew F Smith,
Julie Glenn
Published June 13, 2017 at 1:00 PM EDT
Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Lutz (left), after remarks at the end of the 2017 special session of the Florida Legislature with Senate President Joe Negron, R-Palm City (middle), and Gov. Rick Scott.
Photo: Mark Foley via Florida House of Representatives
Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Lutz (left), after remarks at the end of the 2017 special session of the Florida Legislature with Senate President Joe Negron, R-Palm City (middle), and Gov. Rick Scott.

Florida lawmakers returned to Tallahassee for a busy three-day special session last week, ending with new agreements on school spending, tourism and business incentives, and medical marijuana but leaving in place many of Gov. Rick Scott's vetoes, and questions about the session's last-minute deals unanswered.

Naples Daily News Tallahassee Bureau Chief Arek Sarkissian joins Gulf Coast Live to explain what was passed, and what wasn't, during the 2017 special session of the Florida legislature, and how those decisions will impact Florida, and the state's more than $80 billion budget, in the coming year.

Also joining the program is WGCU reporter John Davis, discussing the impacts from the special session for Southwest Florida. 

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Matthew F Smith
Matthew Smith is a reporter and producer of WGCU’s Gulf Coast Live.
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Julie Glenn
Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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