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Mormon church wants to annex over 50,000 acres of land into Orlando
The company said it has completed what are known as ‘sector plans’ for property it owns in Osceola County
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Florida faculty union pushes back at state directive to review courses for ‘antisemitic material’ and ‘anti-Israeli’ bias
“We reject the premise that this directive is a good faith effort to uncover ‘bias,’” the statement said
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Florida’s state-backed Citizens Insurance adds another 4,000 policies
Florida is nearing the halfway point of the 2024 hurricane season
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Committee working to enshrine abortion into Florida Constitution raises another $7.26 million
The Floridians Protecting Freedom committee had raised a total of $47 million since forming in spring 2023
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DeSantis calls for investigation into former University of Florida President Ben Sasse’s ‘exorbitant spending’
Sasse, who had been at UF less than two years, abruptly resigned in July, citing his wife’s health
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Trump expects Florida’s abortion amendment to pass, but won’t say how he’ll vote
‘I think probably the vote will go in a little more liberal way than people thought’
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Florida may have to pay $3.2 million in legal fees, after judge throws out voter restrictions law
Walker ruled in 2022 that the law was intended to discriminate against Black voters
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Hedge-fund billionaire gives $12 million to PAC fighting Florida’s recreational marijuana initiative
Griffin called the proposed amendment ‘a terrible plan to create the nation’s most expansive and destructive marijuana laws’
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DeSantis declares state of emergency for 54 Florida counties as storm develops
A tropical wave with a high chance of strengthening into a more-threatening storm was on a path that could reach the state this weekend
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Florida may have to pay businesses’ legal fees after judge permanently blocks part of ‘Stop Woke’ law
Tuesday’s motion for attorney fees described the plaintiffs’ success in the case as ‘resounding’
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Federal judge refuses Florida’s request to block Title IX rule over LGBTQ+ protections
The states and other plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in April, alleging, in part, that the Biden administration overstepped its legal authority
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Florida sheriffs and police chiefs oppose recreational marijuana initiative
‘The well-being and health of the citizens of Florida are threatened through the legalization and normalization of recreational marijuana’
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Trulieve adds another $5 million to effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida
Smart & Safe Florida is leading efforts to pass a recreational-marijuana initiative on the November ballot.
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Federal judge permanently blocks part of Florida’s ‘Stop Woke’ law
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a two-page order granting a permanent injunction against the workplace-training part of the law
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Florida’s population reaches 23 million, projected to add a city’s worth of people every year
‘These increases are analogous to adding a city slightly smaller than Orlando, but larger than St. Petersburg every year’
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PAC aiming to put Medicaid expansion on Florida ballot raises $225K
Almost all of the new money raised by the Florida Decides Healthcare committee came from the California-based Tides Foundation
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PAC aiming to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida raises $313K in a week
In all, the Smart & Safe Florida committee has raised nearly $61.5 million
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Florida gas prices unchanged following Hurricane Beryl, holiday weekend
‘While a record 60 million travelers were forecast to hit the highways, the overall demand number for gas dropped’
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Florida House Speaker Paul Renner contributes $1 million to PAC fighting proposed abortion amendment
The Archdiocese of Miami also contributed $129,037 to Florida Voters Against Extremism
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Florida group leading abortion rights measure raises another $509k in one week
About half of the funds raised came from Planned Parenthood over the one-week period, out of over 1,000 mostly small-dollar donations total.
