Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is hammering Gov. Ron DeSantis over his “personal vendetta” against Disney, which took another sharp turn Thursday when the company canceled plans to spend $1 billion [...]
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried says one reason Democrats had a good night in Jacksonville Tuesday was because of Ron DeSantis. Specifically, Fried said, because voters in the Jacksonville mayoral race, [...]
Former Councilmember John Draper emerged from a 1995 City Council election repeat when he drew more votes than fellow Republican Alberta Hipps, making it into the runoff with Democrat Rahman [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to rebut Donald Trump’s apparent belief that he’s not central to what the Governor calls a “culture of losing” in the Republican Party. During an interview Monday on the [...]
President Joe Biden and congressional leaders will likely resume talks on Tuesday at the White House over the debt limit, the President said Sunday, as the nation continues to edge closer to [...]
Early voting ends Sunday in the Jacksonville mayoral election, and the chair of the county Republican Party warns that the race is “razor thin.” In a memo to Duval Republican [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis played Peoria Friday night, and Chicago jokes were part of the routine. DeSantis, the featured guest at the Peoria-Tazewell County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner at the Peoria [...]
Months after a teenager fell from an Orlando ride to his death, Florida is aiming to increase safety of the state’s attractions. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Tyre Sampson Act [...]
Former President Donald Trump touched on a number of subjects during his CNN Town Hall, and Ron DeSantis was among them. Talking to a supportive crowd at St. Anselm College in New [...]
Two incumbent Sweetwater Commissioners are headed back to City Hall after winning re-election by landslides. With all seven precincts reporting and mail-in-ballots counted at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday, Commission Vice President [...]
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz is calling for a congressional field hearing in Parkland to discuss gun violence and how doing something about the problem isn’t the political death sentence [...]
To read the political mail sent by the truckload across Duval County, you might believe the only issue in the election is crime and who’s endorsed by which cops, and [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis went to the Badger State Saturday, delivering the “good news” about how a transformational conservative Governor could flip a perpetual swing state, and how that model may make [...]
The second of two measures this Legislative Session designed to concentrate the law enforcement authority of Miami-Dade County’s first Sheriff in decades is one pen stroke and two months from [...]
The 2023 version of the “Eyeball Wars” is officially over, with ophthalmologists coming out on top. The House on Thursday voted 78-34 to pass SB 230, a top priority for [...]
Bipartisan legislation that would give Floridians a legal way to know if a substance they are about to ingest contains any traces of fentanyl is now cleared to go to [...]
Florida legislators sent Gov. Ron DeSantis a measure overhauling pharmacy benefits, a push championed by the Governor that has been the target of a fierce lobbying campaign by drug companies, pharmacies and [...]
One of two measures filed this Legislative Session to solidify the powers of Miami-Dade County’s first Sheriff in decades is now ready for Gov. Ron DeSantis signature. The Senate unanimously [...]
The University of Florida’s (UF) Jacksonville campus will get $75 million in state money, with the Senate meeting the House offer Saturday night, coming up from a much more modest [...]
Top legislative budget negotiators from the House and the Senate have agreed to boost pension benefits, closed out the health care portion of the budget and reached a deal on [...]
Nationally, the company has a $415B impact and is linked to 3.1M jobs.Ahead of National Small Business Week, Meta released new data highlighting the company’s economic impact in Florida. Data shows [...]
The Senate approved a House bill Thursday with new rules governing kratom, a consumable plant with opioid- and stimulant-like effects. But since the chamber amended the measure, it must pass [...]
How much of a cancer hazard does fighting fires present? Budget conferencing committees have agreed to give the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Care Center $2 million to continue researching the question. [...]
State inspectors could soon be allowed to perform safety checks on Disney World’s monorail for the first time as proposed legislation calling for more state oversight at The Mouse cleared [...]
Ron DeSantis continues to be haunted by Donald Trump even in Japan. On Tuesday in Japan (Monday night in the U.S.), the Florida Governor floundered when asked on Hannity why the former [...]
The former President took another shot at DeSantis on Truth Social.Donald Trump is continuing to question the Florida Governor’s political skills. In a Sunday night Truth Social post, the former [...]
The opening phase of the Republican presidential primary has largely centered on the escalating collision between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. But a new wave of GOP White House hopefuls will [...]
Count Christian Ziegler out of the 2024 Primary fight between Florida’s Governor and Donald Trump. As the former President spoke in Lee County Friday, the chair of the Republican Party of [...]
Florida House lawmakers passed a set of proposals that would hike penalties on illegal handling of nonnative venomous reptiles. The aim is to curtail the number of pythons and similar [...]
Disney is breaking ground next year. The first units will be complete in 2026.An affordable housing complex on Walt Disney World property will open in 2026, Disney announced Wednesday evening, [...]
A bill banning TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter and other social media platforms on public school devices and requiring schools to teach kids about the perils of the internet is now primed [...]
And then there were five. U.S. Rep. Greg Steube on Monday endorsed Donald Trump for President in 2024. That makes him the fifth member of Florida’s Congressional Delegation to back [...]
The hits keep coming on senior citizen entitlements from Donald Trump to Ron DeSantis. In an email from the Trump campaign, the claim is made that the Florida Governor wants [...]
Make America Great Again Inc.’s latest ad criticizing Ron DeSantis’ support for slashing Social Security and Medicare benefits – something that 88 percent of voters are opposed to – went viral [...]
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday he will not enter the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. In an interview with Fox News, the devoted ally and defender of Donald [...]
Thursday’s passage of the “Hearbeat Protection Act” — outlawing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — drew jubilance and fury, including shouting and demonstrating that led security to clear demonstrators [...]
A House panel approved a tax cut plan worth $1.4 billion, mostly aimed at consumers but with a sizable cut in business rent taxes, which includes many of the provisions [...]
It wasn’t close in the election for Seat 1 on the Orange Park Town Council, as local certified public accountant Doug Benefield won the seat he was appointed to in [...]
The Legislature continues to deliver on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ agenda with a House panel agreeing to move a bill that allows insurance companies and providers to deny paying for or providing [...]
With Florida among the 10 remaining states that have resisted expanding Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act, a new poll suggests that putting it to the people — via ballot [...]
Easter 2023 will be one for the record books. Not because it’s a five or zero — for believers, the 2,000th Easter is about a decade away — but because [...]
Former state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith wants to return to Tallahassee, this time as a member of the Florida Senate. The Orlando Democrat has filed for Senate District 17. He’s [...]
A new Hawkeye State poll shows Ron DeSantis with considerable ground to make up against Donald Trump. In a survey of 608 likely Iowa caucus participants from J.L. Partners, the former President commands [...]
Sarasota County Commissioner Nancy Detert has died. The Sarasota Republican, at one point considered a fierce lion of the Florida Senate, was 78. A statement released through social media by [...]
Legislation creating felony penalties for establishments that allow minors into adult shows with lewd content is nearing passage in the Florida Senate after receiving further criticism, including that the proposed [...]
Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book and Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried were among 11 reproductive rights protesters arrested and cuffed outside Tallahassee City Hall Monday night. A spokeswoman for [...]
Chris Christie, one of the only 2016 presidential candidates to seriously consider taking on Donald Trump again, says he and his fellow Republican rivals made a strategic error in that race. Instead [...]
Ron DeSantis continues to re-calibrate messaging on the indictment of Donald Trump. The Governor addressed Republicans at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Harrisburg, and he again tweaked his verbiage about the [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is vowing to take legal action against the former board members of the former Reedy Creek Improvement District over their move to cement the Walt Disney [...]
The Florida Senate positioned legislation that would ban most abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy for a floor vote after a lengthy debate Thursday. SB 300, filed by Fort [...]