19+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1241+ words) Just when you thought state politics could not possibly get sleazier, Hope Florida comes roaring back from the dead, putrid yet powerful, casting a light on the breathtaking arrogance and corruption of Florida’s government. Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General James…...

22+ hour, 24+ min ago   (994+ words) By Trinity Webster-Bass, The Florida Trib In Duval County, one of Florida’s oldest and largest school districts, enrollment in traditional public schools has dropped below 100,000 students for the first time in its modern history, according to district data. This 16% decline…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (293+ words) Attorney General James Uthmeier’s push against major tech companies is expanding to include Netflix. He filed a lawsuit against the entertainment streaming company Wednesday, claiming it violated state law by telling consumers it wouldn’t track and sell their data to…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (259+ words) The Sierra Club has become the latest organization to announce opposition to Amendment 3 on the November ballot, saying that if passed it “will effectively gut the buckets of local governments in Florida.” The Republican-controlled Legislature placed the measure on the…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (1639+ words) Had Florida’s high school marine biology students read the original draft of their textbook, they would have learned about research that found climate change is killing at least 150,000 people per year, and another 1 degree Celsius of warming would double that....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (742+ words) First proposed in 2005, the Cascades development north of Seminole Woods Boulevard in Palm Coast keeps returning before the City Council in different guises with different asks, and keeps getting rejected, or at least rebuffed, as it was Tuesday evening. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (489+ words) Harold Gene Lucas was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison, 50 years after killing 16-year-old Jill Piper at her home in Bonita Springs. Lucas, 74, waived his remaining appeals and elected not to contest his execution....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (777+ words) Ron DeSantis insists no Florida governor has given law enforcement more tools to right crime than he has, but he wants them aimed at criminals, not citizens who have done nothing wrong. Speaking in Jacksonville Monday, the governor said he’s…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (565+ words) Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a death warrant for Curtis Wilkie Beasley for the 1995 murder of a Polk County woman bludgeoned with a hammer in the laundry room of her home. Beasley, 77, is scheduled for execution by lethal injection…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (814+ words) A state grand jury report found Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration “misappropriated” funds by diverting Medicaid money to a nonprofit, eventually ending up in political committees supporting the governor’s agenda. But the report didn’t find enough to pursue criminal charges against…...