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Florida Legislature is past the halfway point of its session
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature is past the halfway point of its annual 60 day session and hasn't tackled any major issues. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has been sent seven bills for his signature, most of them housekeeping items. But there was also a measure that, if the governor...
Florida probes domestic violence agency that paid CEO $750K
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday ordered an investigation into a nonprofit domestic abuse agency whose CEO had received $7.5 million in compensation over a three-year span. The House also voted to subpoena the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence's board of directors...
GOP House votes to move energy office now run by Democrat
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's Office of Energy would be moved out of the agency run by the only statewide elected Democrat and into an agency controlled by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis under a bill passed by the House on Thursday. The GOP-dominated House voted 76-40 to move the Office of Energy from...
With budgets drafted, it's crunch time for Florida lawmakers
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers in the House and Senate passed their respective spending plans Thursday, with about a month left in this year's legislative session to reconcile a $1.4 billion gap in policy and funding priorities over state employee pay raises, the environment, teacher salaries...
Editorial Roundup: Florida
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers: ___ Feb. 10 The Tampa Bay Times on legal notices in newspapers: Local governments have been required for decades to make a modest effort to keep residents informed about issues affecting their communities, from the common to the consequential. They have to publish...
Farmers worry Florida bill will worsen labor scarcity woes
FLORIDA CITY, Fla. (AP) — On a recent afternoon, many stools stood empty beside a conveyor belt where workers examined a stream of green tomatoes and tossed aside those with holes and cracks at a South Florida packing house. Paul J. DiMare, one of the country’s leading producers of fresh tomatoes,...
Guardian for elderly arrested on abuse, neglect charges
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former guardian for the elderly and incapacitated who was accused of filing "do not resuscitate" orders without her clients' permission has been arrested in Florida on felony charges. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said local authorities arrested Rebecca Fierle-Santoian in...
Trump hosts governors, claims credit for their performance
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump claimed some of the credit Sunday as he congratulated America's governors for what he said is the “tremendous” yet sometimes difficult job they're doing leading their states. “Most of the states, almost everyone has set a record,” Trump...
Florida's unpopular Common Core standards are 'eradicated'
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Common Core in Florida is over. The state Department of Education in a statement on Friday said the controversial set of academic standards “has been officially eradicated from Florida classrooms." Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said he is recommending that the...
E-Verify legislation could test Republican unity in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republicans have mostly toed the party line during the first weeks of their legislative session. But that unity will certainly be tested when lawmakers begin debating a proposal to force private employers to use a federal database to check the immigration status of workers....
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