1+ day, 5+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (417+ words) Latino advocacy groups and voting rights organizations Thursday filed a suit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s policy of allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to enter polling locations in certain circumstances to conduct immigration enforcement during the…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (995+ words) Hazel Brannon Smith was almost certainly the most unpopular woman in Mississippi when she wrote an editorial in 1963 lambasting the racist White Citizens Councils in the Lexington Advertiser, a newspaper she owned. “The hierarchy of rulers in this totalitarian-like organization…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (682+ words) On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks strode into the United States Senate chamber and beat Sen. Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane. Brooks, a South Carolina congressman, was retaliating for a speech Sumner had given condemning slavery and personally insulting a relative…...

4+ day, 20+ 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, 21+ 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, 33+ min ago   (342+ words) Nearly half of Americans want unions to be more powerful, in a showing of labor support that’s at an all-time high in the last 25 years, according to a new poll by Gallup. The poll said 47% wanted unions to have more…...

1+ week, 1+ day 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, 2+ day ago   (765+ words) September 4, 2026 | Pierre Tristam | 11 Comments I started my career with a newspaper that covered about 10 counties in Southern West Virginia–some of Appalachia’s poorest counties in one of the most exploited regions of the country. Companies have historically pillaged West Virginia’s…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1268+ words) Candidates affiliated with Democratic Socialists of America, an organization well to the left of the Democratic Party, have scored wins in several of the party’s competitive primaries. It’s very likely that they will win House seats in the November 2026 elections…...