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In Orlando, DeSantis announces cancer grants applications are open, touts increased research dollars
Florida is accepting applications for $70 million in cancer “innovation” funds.
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Bernie Sanders endorses Angie Nixon for U.S. Senate in Florida
“Angie’s campaign is proof that Florida voters are looking for candidates who will fight for them and who will take on the greed of the billionaire class”
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The James Fishback campaign has ended. What about the movement behind it?
He finished a distant third with 10% of the vote in the race for the Republican nomination for governor
Posted inOrlando Area News
Ban on law firms using celebrities’ images, voices in Florida ads challenged in federal court
The Orlando-based firm Morgan & Morgan filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee last week against The Florida Bar.
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Former Florida Republican lawmaker Michael Caruso arrested on child sexual abuse charges
Caruso made his grandson, who is under 12, perform oral sex on him during a cruise trip, according to the arrest affidavit.
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Florida AG Uthmeier submits rewritten Amendment 3 language for review
His proposed new title is “Increased Homestead Exemption, Lower Cap on Increases in Non-Homestead Property Assessments.”
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Florida spent more on treatment for children with autism, special needs than any other state in recent years
Florida in the past two years has spent more money than any other state in the nation providing a therapy called applied behavior analysis to children with special needs
Posted inOrlando Area News
Groups invest in campaign to ‘move on from Moms for Liberty’ in Orange County, among others
The mailers are for “candidates in critical Florida school board races,” which include four in Orange County
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Nearly 1.5 million Floridians have voted in advance of Tuesday’s primary elections
Among outstanding vote-by-mail ballots, Democrats had about 100,000 more, 401,250, to the Republicans’ 302,317.
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Florida’s roundest house is back on the market
Dome homes are extremely energy efficient, can withstand extreme temperatures and, most importantly, they’re designed to deflect hurricane-force winds.
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DeSantis says Central Florida will start testing flying cars by the end of the year
The governor referenced “Back to the Future” and “The Jetsons” several times while making the announcement
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U.S. appeals court approves test of radioactive waste as road paving material
Phosphogypsum emits radon and is not permitted to be deposited anywhere but open-air stacks.
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Judges grill DeSantis administration attorney over Medicaid termination letters
Florida was first sued three years ago over how it disenrolled people from the safety net health care program in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Byron Donalds says he’ll remove local officials who indulge in ‘sanctuary’ policies
Byron Donalds is positioned to succeed Ron DeSantis in the governor’s mansion next year
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DeSantis takes aim at AOC, says it’s not time to let Dems off the hook for ‘Woke 1’
DeSantis never uttered Ocasio-Cortez’ name, instead describing her as “one of the big lefties.”
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FIU students file federal lawsuit over ICE protest clampdown
Per the lawsuit, the students left the auditorium on their own, the protest lasted less than five minutes, the students were silent, and the conversation on stage continued throughout.
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David Jolly blasts Byron Donalds’ ‘attack’ on LGBTQ+ rights amid Florida governor’s race
Donalds says he won’t back down on ‘cultural differences’ with Jolly
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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”
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Florida pediatricians rebuke Trump’s vaccine order
“We go by evidence-based science, we don’t go by politics and politicians.”
