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Debates over Florida’s massive toll road projects continue to flare
“The population is going to continue to grow,” Galvano said. “The need will continue to be there.”
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Over the past 3 years, Florida lawmakers have filed 119 bills to limit power of local governments
A report from Integrity Florida found that lawmakers are strategically attacking home-rule authority on issues ranging from sunscreen bans to regulating businesses.
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Charlie Crist and other Florida lawmakers want to close ‘loophole’ used in Pensacola shooting
“Foreign nationals should not be able to buy a firearm through the purchase of a hunting license,” Crist said in a prepared statement Thursday.
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Time off for Christmas is great and all, but Florida state workers would rather have a pay raise
But DeSantis’ proposed budget doesn’t include across-the-board pay raises for state workers.
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Florida Senate President says we need Visit Florida to offset images of hurricanes, Zika, and toxic algae
Lawmakers this fiscal year cut Visit Florida’s funding from $76 million to $50 million.
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Florida officials say there’s no quick fix in closing gun ‘loophole’ used in Pensacola shooting
“I still don’t think that we have a proposed path,” commission Chairman Robert Spottswood said Thursday afternoon.
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Florida authorities want to close ‘loophole’ used in Pensacola shooting
The FWC wants a proposal that would end the ability for foreign citizens to buy handguns if they hold Florida hunting licenses.
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Florida is still considering a possible bear hunt to manage growing population
Vice Chairman Michael Sole said “hunting is a tool” that might not be warranted today but could be required in the next decade.
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Florida’s citrus industry is ‘pretty close to a cliff’
“I don’t know how many plagues were going to fight, but we’re getting very close to biblical proportions,” Sparks told members of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
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Following botched SunPass system, Florida urges for more oversight of state contracts
In all, 2,247 electronically billed SunPass customers experienced overdrafts to their bank accounts.
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Florida Gov. DeSantis urges budget restraint, wants lawmakers to trim the ‘turkeys’
Gov. Ron DeSantis is saying “earmarks” would need to be cut by $84.8 million to help pay for his proposed record budget.
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Florida senator wants to expand proposal to pay college athletes
Bracy wants to use revenue sharing to establish a trust fund that would pay college athletes when they are done playing.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis snaps when asked about indicted Ukrainian cronies
“I’ve said all I’m gonna say.”
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Florida is actually growing too much citrus right now
“It is dire. This is real,” Senate Agriculture Chairman Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, said this week.
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Trump’s move to Florida proves state’s significance in 2020 election, says Democrats
“He is not the first person to move to Florida to retire.”
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Did this guy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, just bring back the Popeye’s chicken sandwich?
“You’ll probably see me in the near future having a Chick-fil-A and a Popeye’s side-by-side and doing the ultimate taste test.”
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Russians hacked two Florida counties during the 2016 elections, but authorities still won’t say to what extent
Lee reiterated that no election results were altered in the 2016 hacks.
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Ukrainian donor Lev Parnas wanted a seat on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ transition committee
The governor has become swept up in the case, in part because of pictures of Parnas at DeSantis fundraisers last year.
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Florida Gov. Ron Desantis says he knew arrested Soviet donor, and he seemed ‘legitimate’
“Ron DeSantis has a lot of questions to answer about his relationships with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.”
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Rick Scott banned the phrase ‘climate change,’ now a younger class of Florida Republicans are no longer in denial
“These aren’t issues that are just 10, 20 years, it’s happening now, we’re seeing it now as we speak.”
