First Read
First Read

Ron DeSantis wants your name, email and phone number for his birthday

So his campaign can hit you up for a contribution. 

  • By Tristan Wood

Policy
Policy

Group seeks information on Florida school voucher expansion

The Florida Policy Institute said the latest details have not been published by the Department of Education.

  • By News Service of Florida

Politics
Politics

Taking a page from Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy promises massive job cuts across federal government

'Large-scale, mass layoffs are absolutely what we will bring to the D.C. bureaucracy,' Ramaswamy said at the America First Policy Institute.

  • By Eric Katz

Politics
Politics

Surfside commissioners reject censure of city's mayor over 'hurtful comments'

Mayor Shlomo Danzinger had made questionable remarks directed at Commissioner Nelly Velasquez during a public meeting held last month.

  • By Verónica Zaragovia

First Read
First Read

Equality Florida debuts chatbot for abortion

Available in English and Spanish, users can ask Charley specific questions about where they can get an abortion in their area.

  • By Tristan Wood

Policy
Policy

Judge refuses to block Florida transgender treatment law

The lawsuit contends new restrictions on adults have erected 'unnecessary barriers' to care and imposed 'medically unsupported requirements' on trans people.

  • By Dara Kam

Policy
Policy

More living local: How cutting red tape can encourage housing conversions

By streamlining zoning and broadening eligibility for adaptive reuse programs, Los Angeles and Kissimmee, Florida, encourage developers to convert business properties to desperately needed housing.

  • By Molly Bolan

Policy
Policy

Families fume over plans taking space from Surfside condo collapse memorial

'It doesn’t matter how luxury a building may be. Garbage is garbage,' one critic said about plans to include garbage collection and a loading dock near a proposed memorial for those killed in the Champlain Towers South collapse.

  • By Verónica Zaragovia

Policy
Policy

IRS: Millionaires with unpaid tax bills? We're on it ... sort of

The agency had planned to bring on 3,833 revenue agents in fiscal 2023, but as of March had recruited just 34.

  • By Eric Katz

Opinion
Opinion

Bill Cotterell: Redistricting case matters far beyond Florida

The stakes in Florida’s congressional redistricting litigation couldn’t be higher, our Capitol Columnist writes.

  • By Bill Cotterell

Policy
Policy

Quick resolution sought in Florida congressional redistricting dispute

Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh ruled earlier this month that a redistricting plan pushed through the Legislature by Gov. Ron DeSantis was unconstitutional.

  • By Jim Saunders

First Read
First Read

Tallahassee 9/11 memorial to be dedicated

The local memorial is outside the Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross.

  • By Jim Rosica

Policy
Policy

First Miami-Dade budget hearing grapples with housing crisis, growth of government

A panoply of issues was addressed at the budget hearing, in addition to the housing crisis: Trouble at the county’s animal services department; a slow moving crisis for the county’s solid waste program; pressure to increase transit services.

  • By Daniel Rivero

Policy
Policy

Crunch time in Congress could hit state and local programs

The legislative logjam on Capitol Hill is backing up everything from child care to disaster funding.

  • By Daniel C. Vock

Policy
Policy

Florida finances in ‘good shape,’ lawmakers say, but surpluses will dip

'We are certainly in a much different position from last year,' Senate Appropriations Chairman Doug Broxson, R-Gulf Breeze, said.

  • By Jim Turner

Podcast
Podcast

Episode 57: A Deeper Dive Into The Response To Hurricane Idalia

This week's guests chat with Dara about Hurricane Idalia, which hammered Florida's Big Bend region as a powerful Category 3 storm

  • By Dara Kam

Policy
Policy

Biden's immigration policies are working, officials say – though workforces are stretched thin

Immigration agencies say they are hanging on, for now.

  • By Eric Katz

Policy
Policy

Florida Supreme Court keeps 'fairness and diversity' out of continuing judicial education requirements

'I continue to believe that fairness and diversity education is of great benefit,' Justice Jorge Labarga wrote in dissent.

  • By Jim Saunders

Winners & Losers
Personality

This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

Who’s up and who’s down in the Sunshine State?

  • By City & State

First Read
First Read

New DeSantis ad leaves them 'stone cold dead'

The advertisement, on border security, will be airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.

  • By Tristan Wood
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