Posted inImmigration
With new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrests
“The focus is so much on the arrest numbers that the mission seems a little confused to the general public”
Florida News
Posted inFlorida News
Florida pediatricians rebuke Trump’s vaccine order
“We go by evidence-based science, we don’t go by politics and politicians.”
Posted inFlorida News
Florida’s small school districts band together to lower health costs
By combining forces, smaller school districts have found a way to bargain for better health insurance policies for their teachers by turning to a self-insured plan.
Posted inFlorida News
NOAA maintains ‘below-normal’ Florida hurricane forecast
The change is based on El Niño conditions that increase wind shear, which tends to prevent tropical storms from forming or strengthening once formed
Posted inOrlando Area News
For the first time in over a century, Central Florida’s historic Bannon Island is for sale
The 20-acre island’s first known resident was Echo Emathla Chipco, also known as the Seminole tribe’s Chief Chipco
Posted inFlorida News
Uthmeier says he’ll push to increase criminal penalties for poaching next legislative session
The penalties for illegal hunting or taking of wildlife in Florida could be about to get more punitive.
Posted inFlorida News
Florida Dems press DeSantis administration for details about AI contract for SNAP
Florida Democrats want to know how the state plans to use artificial intelligence to lower its error rate in SNAP.
Posted inOrlando Area News
Florida’s no-children-at-drag shows law upheld by federal appeals court
A federal appeals court has upheld a Florida law banning children from attending drag shows, a measure put in place with the support of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Posted inFlorida News
Florida gas prices slide, but some areas still pay $4 per gallon
AAA put the average gallon of gas in Florida on Monday at $3.83, or 27 cents lower than the national average.
Posted inFlorida News
Florida Sheriffs Association is ‘significantly concerned’ about property tax cut amendment
Representatives of local governments argue such significant reduction in revenues could make it challenging to pay for essential services.
Posted inOrlando Area News
This Orlando century home with hidden ties to city’s first hospital is for sale
Back on the market with a price cut
Posted inFlorida News
Florida AG Uthmeier warns Catholic church to accept vaccine exemptions
If they take taxpayer funded vouchers for their schools, they should accept vaccine exemptions for students, he says.
Posted inFlorida News
Uthmeier announces felony charges against a Canadian citizen who voted in Florida elections
Florida is one of four states that uses the DHS’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to detect noncitizen voters.
Posted inFlorida News
Florida Democratic chair calls on Ashley Moody to release grand jury report on Hope Florida
Moody approved a transfer of the $10 million to the Hope Florida Foundation as part of a larger $67 million agreement the Florida Agency of Healthcare Administration
Posted inFlorida News
Haitian immigrants brace for end of protected status
Hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants could lose their legal status as early as Tuesday
Posted inFlorida News
Byron Donalds wants to ax ultra-processed foods in schools
Donalds wants ultra-processed food, artificial dyes, and “harmful additives” removed from school meals.
Posted inFlorida News
Florida now warns against depression and anxiety meds for children, teens
It’s the latest instance of Florida channeling Kennedy’s MAHA agenda.
Posted inFlorida News
Measles cases have reached a 35-year high
The largest number of current cases are in South Carolina (670), Utah (522), Texas (188), Virginia (176), Florida (141) and Pennsylvania (134).
Posted inFlorida News
Democrats urge Trump administration to rethink Endangered Species Act rollback
Florida manatees and panthers are suddenly much more vulnerable, environmentalists say