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DeSantis approves $1.5 billion from Florida budget for Everglades restoration
The funding is separate from a bill DeSantis signed that designates money from the Seminole Tribe of Florida into buying and maintaining land in a state wildlife corridor
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Environment, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, Florida Everglades, Florida budget, Everglades cleanup
Florida will appeal ruling after judge says state can't enforce pronoun law against teacher
Walker’s decision said that the law violated the First Amendment
Tags: Florida News, LGBTQ+, Florida pronoun law, Ron DeSantis, Florida Legislature
President Joe Biden will appear in Tampa next week
The trip comes as polls show the president trailing Trump in the runup to the 2024 election.
Tags: Florida News, Elections, President Biden, Ron DeSantis
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill allowing school chaplains, says satanists need not apply
The governor also predicted the state would prevail if the new law draws a legal challenge over separation of church and state concerns.
By Michael Moline, Florida Phoenix
Tags: Florida News, Education, school chaplain bill, Ron DeSantis, Florida schools, Florida students, Florida education bill, counseling, Christian nationalism
DeSantis signs Florida education reform bill that limits school book challenges
More than 1,200 objections were filed to school-library books and other materials last school year
By Ryan Dailey, NSF
Tags: Florida News, Education, Florida book ban, Ron DeSantis, Florida banned books, Florida school books
Florida Gov. DeSantis says he'll sign bill to restrict challenges to school books by nonparents
'It is done intentionally, and it is part of an agenda, and that’s wrong,' DeSantis said during a news conference
Tags: Florida News, Education, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, Florida book bans, school book challenges, Florida education bill
'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
Federal court orders Florida to explain its standing in immigration suit against Biden
Moody and DeSantis have made a high-profile issue of criticizing the federal government’s handling of immigration issues
By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Florida immigration, President Biden, Attorney General Ashley Moody
Controversial Florida bill blocking civilian review boards from investigating cops heads to DeSantis
The measure would affect at least 21 cities with civilian review boards, including Orlando
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, police review boards, Florida police, Florida law enforcement
Florida AG Ashley Moody joins lawsuit to block Biden's student-debt forgiveness plan
Along with Florida, the other states that filed the lawsuit are Missouri, Arkansas, Georgia, Ohio and Oklahoma
Tags: Florida News, Education, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, President Biden, Ron DeSantis, student-loan debt, student-debt forgiveness
DeSantis fentanyl bill-signing turns into attack on transgender athletes in Florida
Surgeon General Ladapo brings up transgender athletes for no known reason
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, Surgeon General Ladapo, transgender athletes, fentanyl, Florida fentanyl bill
Disney granted delay in legal battle with Florida Gov. DeSantis over oversight district
Disney asked for a 60-day extension in submitting an opening brief to 'facilitate' negotiations
Tags: Florida News, Orlando Theme Parks, Ron DeSantis, Orlando theme parks, Disney World, Ron DeSantis, Disney legal battle, Disney lawsuit
Disney asks for delay from appeals court in legal battle with Florida Gov. DeSantis
Tags: Florida News, Orlando Theme Parks, Ron DeSantis, Disney World, Ron DeSantis, Orlando theme parks, Disney legal battle, Disney lawsuit
Gov. DeSantis signs bill to use gambling money for Florida's environmental projects
Much of the money will come from a 2021 gambling deal that the state reached with the Seminole Tribe of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Environment, Ron DeSantis, environmental projects, Florida environment, Florida gambling money, Florida casinos, Ron DeSantis, Florida Everglades, Seminole Tribe of Florida
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill banning state money from going to local public-transit advertising
DeSantis on Wednesday signed a wide-ranging transportation package
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, Florida transportation bill, public-transit advertising
'This state will start to smell like marijuana': Gov. DeSantis complains about marijuana, abortion amendments in Florida
The governor criticized the recreational marijuana measure, which will appear as Amendment 3 on the November ballot, calling it the 'weed one'
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, Florida marijuana, Florida abortion, marijuana amendment, abortion rights amendment, Florida amendments
Florida bill blocking local workplace heat protection standards is now in DeSantis' hands
The bill is what’s known as a 'preemption' measure, meaning it would take authority away from local governments
Tags: Florida News, Labor, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, workplace heat protection standards, Florida heat protection, Florida jobs, Florida labor
'President Biden’s opening in Florida': Democrats say abortion could affect races up and down November ballot
Focus on the abortion issue exploded Monday shortly after the seven-member Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Elections, Abortion Rights, President Biden, Ron DeSantis, Florida abortion, Florida Democrats, Florida Republicans, Florida GOP, abortion ban, abortion ruling, Florida 2024 ballot
Florida GOP extends voter registration lead over Democrats by more than 855,000
Democrats historically held a registration lead in the state, but Republicans overtook them in 2021
Tags: Florida News, Elections, Florida GOP, Florida Democrats, Florida voters, Florida election, Ron DeSantis
What the Florida Supreme court abortion rulings mean for voters
The court approved a six-week ban, but will also give voters a chance to ensure access to abortion with ballot amendment in November
Tags: Florida News, Abortion Rights, Florida abortion ban, abortion bill, six-week abortion ban, Ron DeSantis, Florida Supreme Court, Attorney General Ashley Moody
DeSantis suspends Orlando commissioner Regina Hill days after arrest
Hill was indicted last week on charges of elder exploitation, personal ID fraud and mortgage fraud
By McKenna Schueler and Chloe Greenberg
Tags: Orlando Area News, Ron DeSantis, Regina Hill, Ron DeSantis, City of Orlando, Orlando City Commissioner, elder abuse, fraud, Orlando city commission, Orlando city council, crime, Orlando crime, Regina Hill indictment, Regina Hill arrest, Regina Hill suspension, suspension Regina Hill
Florida Supreme Court likely to rule on abortion, recreational marijuana amendments Monday
If the proposals reach the ballot, they would need approval from 60 percent of voters to pass
Tags: Florida News, Florida abortion ban, Florida marijuana, Ron DeSantis
Gov. DeSantis signs bill allowing people to purchase giant bottles of wine
'If that means they want to buy and sell a big old bottle of wine like this, then by golly they're going to be able to,' DeSantis said
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Florida wine bill, Ron DeSantis, wine containers
Federal judges back Gov. DeSantis’ congressional map that eliminated Black district
The three judge panel said opponents did not prove lawmakers acted with 'racially discriminatory purpose'
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, Florida redistricting, Florida congressional map
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill to end squatters' rights, increase penalties
The bill grants law enforcement the authority to remove residential squatters
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, squatters bill, squatters' rights
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Orlando is the least walkable city in the country, says study
By Chloe Greenberg
Florida lobbyists leaned on pols to get ban on local heat safety and wage laws across the finish line, records show
Florida MMA fighter captures 8-foot alligator with bare hands and feet
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