The market has performed amazingly well. But it's incredibly fragile right now.

The carriers who have the other perils coverage on thousands of homes would be forced to decide whether to cover it all or none of it. We don't have the ability to take on any additional wind exposure. So Citizens would just get larger.

You will see a similar pattern among all business groups. The majority of members of the major committees are now Republican, and certainly the key leaders are.

The investor-owned utilities did not want to come out into the rural areas because there wasn't money to be made.

This is in line with the recommendations of the Legislature's Task Force on Long-Term Solutions which is calling for the elimination of the definition of wind exposure class C from Florida's building code statutes.

It's been very important to financing police pensions. I can tell you the Florida Legislature passed it and determined it to be good public policy.

It makes me more adventurous in trying things. Some weird vegetable will come in my box and I won't know how to use it or what to do with it, so it'll make me look up recipes.

It's all about following the views, and daylight.

There is unanimity, however, in the belief that the current system is in disarray as a result of statutory and judicial changes during the past three decades.

This makes perfect sense because often the greatest damage to a home occurs when windows and garage doors fail. When that happens, the walls may be left standing but the contents of the home are destroyed. We believe building codes that apply to areas of the state outside of the Panhandle should be applied to that region as well.