The Florida Board of Governors effectively suspended Florida Atlantic University’s search for a new president. The move comes days after a search committee announced three finalists but unexpectedly did not include [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to explain away disappointing polling numbers, blaming the “corporate media” and Mexico’s President Andrés López Obrador this time. During a Thursday night interview on Fox News Tonight, [...]
Ron DeSantis is standing by attacks on former President Donald Trump, which include an ad DeSantis’ campaign highlighted that claimed Trump was too committed to LGBTQ+ rights. “Yeah look, I think identifying [...]
It’s three years until the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, but festivities are already starting. The anniversary push will formally launch July 4 with an event during a Major [...]
A key spokesperson for the Never Back Down super PAC warns that there is trouble afoot for the Ron DeSantis campaign, with the presidential contender “way behind,” though the race is [...]
Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public. They’ve bailed to the beach, the mountains, the golf course, [...]
It’s three years until the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, but festivities are already starting.2026 will be here before we know it, and with that year comes the 250th [...]
Permanent alimony is no more in Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation (SB 1416) that overhauls divorce law in Florida. The most notable change eliminates the possibility of divorced couples [...]
Ron DeSantis says he can handle running for President and being Governor of Florida at the same time, but he’s just sleeping less. During a friendly Fox News interview with Jesse Watters, the Governor [...]
The St. Cloud Republican plans to start in July as president of South Florida State College.State Rep. Fred Hawkins announced Friday will be his last day in the House. The [...]
Bill would have expanded eligibility for criminal record expungement to those who have been excluded because of juvenile records.Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded who [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation to extend telehealth renewals on medical marijuana and ensure more Black farmers participate in the industry. The bill (HB 387) had bipartisan support in the [...]
Donald Trump issued familiar denunciations of Ron DeSantis in Michigan Sunday. Addressing the Oakland County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner, Trump took the Florida Governor to task for plummeting in [...]
The group that promotes film production in Florida has a new president. Film Florida announced at its annual meeting this week that Sandy Lighterman, the film commissioner for Broward County, [...]
Ads can't use the term 'recall' to refer to a product that hasn't been recalled, among other restrictions.Law firms in Florida won’t be able to create and show advertisements presented [...]
Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot U.S. Sen. Rick Scott on Thursday poured water on a recent report claiming he was [...]
A federal judge has invalidated a rule and law barring Florida from having Medicaid pay for gender-affirming care provided to transgender individuals. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle on Wednesday concluded [...]
Several new sports legends are entering the state’s official hall of fame. The Florida Sports Hall of Fame’s 2023 class includes eight members representing six different sports, including an eight-time [...]
The too often ignored reality for Florida’s education system: If you start behind, it’s hard to catch up. Indeed, fully half of children entering kindergarten in Florida today are deemed [...]
Political leaders in Central Florida mourned the loss of a community leader. The Rev. Dr. Randolph Bracy Jr. died at age 78, announced New Covenant Baptist Church of Orlando. That’s [...]
Leave it to Gov. Ron DeSantis to find common ground between Nevada and Florida. “We are both areas that receive a lot of disgruntled Californians,” DeSantis said. Saturday at the Basque [...]
Manatee County Commissioner Vanessa Baugh has submitted her resignation and will leave office at the end of July. The Lakewood Ranch Republican sent a notice to her colleagues on the [...]
Were Democrats hit harder when it came to vetoes on local spending? Many felt a sting after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Office published some $511 million in line items nixed from [...]
The longest-serving Sheriff in Palm Beach County history raised more than $100,000 in the first 30 days of his bid to keep serving in the role even longer, his campaign [...]
A U.S. Senator and a CNN journalist don’t see eye to eye on the “spectacle” involving former President Donald Trump. After Trump’s court appearance in Miami Tuesday, the former President was [...]
Legislation to ensure Major League Baseball team owners could continue paying players on their minor league teams less than Florida’s minimum wage has been signed into law. Gov. Ron DeSantis [...]
Denee Benton made a joke during an award presentation.Florida’s Governor wasn’t up for a Tony Award Sunday. But Ron DeSantis made news anyway. Actor Denee Benton was presenting the 2023 Excellence in Theater [...]
Ron DeSantis got a hero’s welcome — and a key endorsement — in Tulsa Saturday, ahead of a speech heavy on applause and the high points of the Governor’s record. [...]
Ron DeSantis isn’t letting a little matter of 37 federal counts against Donald Trump keep him from offering a backhanded defense of the former President and current 2024 opponent. On Friday [...]
The former President said on his Truth Social account he is due in Miami federal court on Tuesday. Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at [...]
The merger between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour looks like one more bogey for Jeff Roe. Florida politicos know Roe best as a consultant on a losing streak in [...]
Conservative group Americans for Prosperity-Florida is pushing back against a proposed stadium deal between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the city of Jacksonville, equating potential city funding to a corporate handout. [...]
Journalists at two dozen local newspapers across the U.S. walked off the job Monday to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at Gannett, the [...]
A new survey of the 2024 Florida GOP Presidential Primary reveals a twenty-point deficit for Ron DeSantis. In the Sunshine State Battleground Poll conducted from May 31 to June 2, former [...]
Two Florida men who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers group were sentenced Friday to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other [...]
Republican Rep. Fabián Basabe is proposing Miami Beach look to the Middle East for inspiration on how to deal with rising sea levels and unsafe structures. It’s called “Pinui Binui,” [...]
Donald Trump took his attacks on Ron DeSantis to a Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity Thursday. The event was pre-taped in Iowa, and while the Florida Governor wasn’t the sole [...]
Veering away from a default crisis, the House approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package late Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy assembled a bipartisan coalition of centrist [...]
Kicking off his presidential campaign Tuesday, Ron DeSantis invited supporters to come to D.C. with him. “It’s time we impose our will on Washington DC,” DeSantis said in his first [...]
Ron DeSantis is renewing his critiques of diversity, equity, and inclusion and other concepts he says are hampering military recruitment. During a Memorial Day hit on the Fox News Channel, [...]
During Donald Trump’s first visit as president to Chicago, a frequent target in his attacks on urban violence, he disparaged the nation’s third largest city as a haven for criminals [...]
As he vies for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is touting a series of measures he has pushed that have led to an upswing in banned or [...]
Supporters of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential ambitions fretted at a donor dinner about his stance on abortion. That’s according to audio obtained exclusively by Florida Politics. Supporters gathered at the [...]
A poem written for President Joe Biden’s inauguration has been placed on a restricted list at a South Florida elementary school after one parent’s complaint. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, poet [...]
Another poll from the Lone Star State is good news for Donald Trump. “In a Texas Republican presidential primary restricted to Trump and DeSantis, 57% of Texas GOP primary voters would [...]
Wednesday could be a busy day. Legislative leaders sent 38 bills to Gov Ron DeSantis Tuesday on the eve of his expected Twitter announcement that he’s running for President. Among [...]
After a third advocacy group warned people about traveling to Florida, VISIT FLORIDA President and CEO Dana Young blasted the advisories as partisan-motivated stunts full of inaccurate claims. The NAACP [...]
In March, a U.S. judge here in Georgia sentenced 48-year-old Larry Foxworth to 20 years in federal prison for firing multiple gunshots into two late-night convenience stores in Clayton County. [...]
Visit Florida? Not if the national NAACP has anything to say about it. On Saturday, the NAACP Board of Directors issued a travel advisory, urging people to avoid the Sunshine [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis is fighting to get a new judge on the bench for a case stemming from Disney’s federal lawsuit against the Governor. DeSantis filed a motion to disqualify Chief [...]