Kirby Wilson

5 days ago | tampabay.com | Kirby Wilson

Around the Tampa Bay region, consumers can walk into smoke shops and gas stations and buy a substance that experts say mimics a powerful opioid. No prescription is required. The products are virtually unregulated: Bills to curb their sale have repeatedly died in Tallahassee. State and federal regulators have done almost nothing to intervene. Scientists say the substance, called 7-hydroxymitragynine or 7-OH, poses a public health threat.

5 days ago | swoknews.com | Kirby Wilson

TAMPA, Fla. — Around the Tampa Bay region, consumers can walk into smoke shops and gas stations and buy a substance that experts say mimics a powerful opioid. No prescription is required. The products are virtually unregulated: Bills to curb their sale have repeatedly died in Tallahassee. State and federal regulators have done almost nothing to intervene. kAm$4:6?E:DED D2J E96 DF3DE2?46[ 42==65 f\9J5C@IJ>:EC28J?:?6 @C f\~w[ A@D6D 2 AF3=:4 962=E9 E9C62E] %96 A@E6?E 496>:42= :D 7@F?5 :?

3 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Kirby Wilson

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - For a few days, Democrats got to dream. In two Florida congressional special elections, one south of Jacksonville and one in the Panhandle, the Democrats' candidates, Josh Weil and Gay Valimont, were running stronger than expected in ruby-red districts. Fueled by liberal outrage around the country at the policies enacted by President Donald Trump, they had raised millions of dollars more than Republicans.

3 weeks ago | thederrick.com | Kirby Wilson

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — For a few days, Democrats got to dream. In two Florida congressional special elections, one south of Jacksonville and one in the Panhandle, the Democrats’ candidates, Josh Weil and Gay Valimont, were running stronger than expected in ruby-red districts. Fueled by liberal outrage around the country at the policies enacted by President Donald Trump, they had raised millions of dollars more than Republicans.

3 weeks ago | tampabay.com | Kirby Wilson

DAYTONA BEACH — For a few days, Democrats got to dream. In two Florida congressional special elections, one south of Jacksonville and one in the Panhandle, the Democrats’ candidates, Josh Weil and Gay Valimont, were running stronger than expected in ruby-red districts. Fueled by liberal outrage around the country at the policies enacted by President Donald Trump, they had raised millions of dollars more than Republicans.