Bobby Caina Calvan

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Tallahassee

Reporter — Associated Press

Politics, U.S.

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Covers: congress, us

Doesn't Cover: entertainment

Associated Press reporter in Tallahassee, Florida. With or without a check mark, I’m the real me. Berkeley grad. From the land of aloha. DMs open.

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Biography

Washington-based journalist who has worked in some of the country's best newsrooms. Currently a reporter for the Boston Globe in the nation's capital. I'v covered most everything there is to cover. At the Sacramento Bee, I covered health care, did a stint on the copy desk, and covered the Iraq war for McClatchy Newspapers in 2007.

I grew up on a dairy farm, located on the southeastern flanks of the majestic Koolau Mountains. I attended high school in Honolulu, then jetted to New York City to at…

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Washington-based political reporter for the Boston Globe, focusing on Congress and the 2012 national election…

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Behind the health care debate

A look behind the health care debate through the travails of one medically uninsured Californian with bladder…

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Fallen hero

One man's mission to keep the memory of his fallen son alive.

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Deadline looms: Florida lawmakers focus on budget, E-Verify

By Bobby Caina Calvan

floridapolitics.com — Headlines They will have a scant few days to bridge a $1.4 billion gap in their respective budget proposals. With deadlines nipping at their heels, Florida lawmakers are turning their attention next week to hammering out a state budget and possibly handing Gov. Ron DeSantis a major policy victory — or yet another defeat — on E-Verify, a top priority for the Republican Governor in his bid to repel illegal immigration.

Feb 29, 2020 Open in Who Shared

Deadline looms: Florida lawmakers focus on budget, E-Verify

By Bobby Caina Calvan

heraldcourier.com — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — With deadlines nipping at their heels, Florida lawmakers are turning their attention next week to hammering out a state budget and possibly handing Gov. Ron DeSantis a major policy victory — or yet another defeat — on E-Verify, a top priority for the Republican governor in his bid to repel illegal immigration.

Feb 29, 2020 Open in Who Shared

Deadline looms: Florida lawmakers focus on budget, E-Verify

By Bobby Caina Calvan

dothaneagle.com — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — With deadlines nipping at their heels, Florida lawmakers are turning their attention next week to hammering out a state budget and possibly handing Gov. Ron DeSantis a major policy victory — or yet another defeat — on E-Verify, a top priority for the Republican governor in his bid to repel illegal immigration.

Feb 29, 2020 Open in Who Shared