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'It's unjust': Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill banning local heat safety and wage laws
The bill was a priority of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and other business groups.
By McKenna Schueler
Tags: Florida News, Labor, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Florida heat bill, Florida heat safety bill, Florida heat, Florida HB 433, HB 433, Tiffany Esposito, Ron DeSantis, Florida labor bill, anti-worker bills, Florida Chamber of Commerce
Letter to the editor: The City of Orlando must re-evaluate its approach to a Pulse memorial
'Instead of disassociating from the OnePulse Foundation's flawed approach, the City appears intent on replicating its missteps.'
Tags: Views + Opinions, LGBTQ+, Pulse, Reader Reactions, Pulse, Florida, Pulse Nightclub, gun violence, Pulse shootings
DeSantis administration wants to assign another 100 National Guards to Florida prisons
The Department of Corrections submitted a request to a legislative committee seeking $23.5 million to offset salaries for additional guards
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Ron Desantis, National Guard, Florida prisons, Department of Corrections
Next Grand Theft Auto will feature 'Florida Man,' alligators in Walmarts and car-top twerking
If it happened in the Sunshine State and it was super weird, it’s probably in the new game
By Grayson Keglovic
Tags: Arts Stories + Interviews, Grand Theft Auto, Florida, Orlando, GTA, Florida Man
Longwood Christmas decorations purloined by Grinchly black bear in the dead of night
‘You’re a mean one, Mr. … Bear?’
Tags: Orlando Area News, Longwood, Florida, Black Bear, Christmas, Grinch, holidays in Orlando, Orlando wildlife
Less than a year before the 2024 elections, Florida is still brawling over DeSantis' redistricting plan
‘A historically performing benchmark district for Black voters was not just diminished — it was eliminated,’ read the dissent, in part.
By Jim Saunders, NSF
Tags: Florida News, Elections, redistricting, Florida District 5, proportional representation, voting rights, DeSantis
Pro-Palestine Florida State students demand changes from university leaders
The FSU chapter of Students for a Democratic Society demands university ‘cut all ties with the genocidal Israeli government’
By Christian Casale and Florida Phoenix
Tags: Florida News, Education, Palestine, Hamas, Israel, free speech, university groups, FSU, Florida State University, Tallahassee
New study finds Orange County is the third most dangerous in Florida for pedestrians
Also, the sky is blue and the sun rises in the morning
Tags: Orlando Area News, Florida, Orange County drivers, Miami-Dade, Traffic, Pedestrians, Walking in Orlando, Orlando traffic, Florida news
Orlando Rep. Anna Eskamani one of only two Florida lawmakers to support ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war
Eskamani supported fellow Democrat Angie Nixon’s ceasefire resolution, while other Democrats admonished or snubbed them.
Tags: Florida News, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Netanyahu, Tlaib, Anna Eskamani, Angie Nixon, Florida
Creed brings 'Summer of '99' reunion tour to Florida next year
The tour skips Orlando but won't stray too far from Central Florida
Tags: Live Music Picks + Previews, Concert Announcements, Creed, Florida, Orlando live music, Orlando concerts, Florida concerts
Florida women’s shitty behavior at Orlando-area restaurant leads to arrests
It all started with a clogged toilet
By Jessica Bryce Young
Tags: Orlando Area News, Florida, toilets, wings
DeSantis ‘reloads’ presidential run by replacing his campaign manager
Don’t call it a reboot, please — definitely do not think about boots, white boots, boots of any kind
By Jessica Bryce Young and News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Elections, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, presidential election, 2024, campaign, election, Generra Peck, James Uthmeier
What do Florida’s new ‘whitewashed’ Black history standards mean for the state of education?
An interview with UCF Professor Robert Cassanello, who specializes in Florida’s civil rights history
Tags: Florida News, Education, Ron DeSantis, Florida african american history standards, Florida education law, Florida slavery, Florida board of education rules, Florida Black history rule, stop woke, Florida stoke woke, DeSantis
Parts of South Florida city under quarantine due to giant African land snails
'We're going to need a bigger bo … uh, salt shaker'
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: Florida News, Achatina, giant African land snail, molluscs, Florida, quarantine, invasive species, Miramar, South Florida
Nazi demonstrators wave DeSantis sign and swastikas outside Disney World in Orlando
P!nk tweeted out what we were all thinking: 'ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????!!!!!!!!'
Tags: Orlando Area News, Orlando Theme Parks, Ron DeSantis, Nazi, anti-Semitism, Florida Nazis, neo-Nazis at Disney, Disney World, anti-Semitism in Orlando, hate speech in Orlando, Disney, DeSantis, Slideshow
Viral TikTok comedian Matt Rife heads to Orlando on first-ever world tour
The 'Matt Rife: ProbleMATTic World Tour' hits Orlando in October
By Sarah Castillo
Tags: Things to Do, Concert Announcements, Performing Arts, Matt Rife, Matt Rife Tour, Matt Rife Orlando, Matt Rife Florida, Comedy, Comedy Show, Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Orlando's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Drag to demonstrate against recent spate of Florida anti-LGBTQ+ legislation
Show up for Orlando's drag community this weekend
Tags: Orlando Area News, Lake Eola Park, Orlando Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Drag Protest, Orlando drag, Orlando LGBTQ+, Protest, Florida, DeSantis
Young bear caught on video strolling into Publix in Naples
What would you do for a Pub Sub?
Tags: Florida News, Publix, Naples, Bear, Bear Sighting, Florida, Central Florida, Florida wildlife, bear in Publix
Florida furries convention forced to add age restriction by DeSantis' drag law
The MegaPlex meetup for furries and fans is using an abundance of caution regarding DeSantis' pet anti-drag law
Tags: Orlando Area News, furries, megaplex, Orlando cons, Florida slate of hate, fandoms, cosplay, drag, SB 1438, DeSantis, Christian nationalism, Gilead
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton and others led march to the Capitol after Florida rejected African American studies course
Sharpton also called for a voter drive to oppose Gov. DeSantis
By Ryan Dailey, NSF
Tags: Florida News, Elections + Politics, Ron DeSantis, Al Sharpton, Florida Capitol, Tallahassee, African American studies, National Action Network, Florida State Capitol
Voting by mail is getting harder in Florida — all ballot requests made before the 2022 election have been canceled
Here’s how you can make sure to get your mail-in ballot
By Reina Nieves and Matthew Moyer
Tags: Florida News, Elections + Politics, Voting, Florida, Elections, Restrictions, Vote by Mail
Florida students are eligible to receive free books through the New Worlds Reading Initiative
By Reina Nieves
Tags: Florida News, New Worlds Reading Initiative, Florida, Literacy, Students, Books, Free, Elementary School
First-ever Echoland Festival bringing Robert Plant, Tenacious D, Flaming Lips and more to Spirit of the Suwannee
Tags: Live Music Picks + Previews, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Echoland Festival, Music, Live Music, Festival, Florida, Concert
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ war on ‘woke ideology’ in higher education threatens academic freedom
We’ve seen this all before.
Tags: Florida News, Education, higher ed, faculty, AFL-CIO, DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis targets prescription drug ‘middlemen’
He hopes to make the issue a priority in the 2023 legislative session
By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, DeSantis, Florida healthcare, Medicare, pharmacy benefit managers
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The Hammered Lamb faces business hit after Orlando Sentinel shares incorrect health inspection data
By Chloe Greenberg
Open House and Oh Hey Cafe open on Lee Road, Bar Kada opens next to Soseki in Winter Park, and Kōri opens soon in Mills 50
By Faiyaz Kara
UCF faculty, students rally in support of faculty's contribution to student success amid salary dispute
Iconic Motown diva Diana Ross has come a long way from the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit, and now she's putting her…
By Colin Wolf
Atmospheric indie-rockers Beach Fossils enthralled a loyal crowd at the House of Blues in Orlando. [content-1]
The castle-like remains of an eccentric scholar's unfinished artist sanctuary is now on the market in Florida. Located in Monticello, near Tallahassee,…
It was a gorgeous day of "music, art and freedom" when the Florida Groves Festival returned to the Orlando Amphitheater at the…
By Matt Keller Lehman
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