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Jacksonville City Council member Leanna Gutierrez Cumber is earning endorsements from several Republican officials in local beach communities. Cumber is running for Jacksonville Mayor as incumbent Lenny Curry faces term [...]

Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot Sen. Shevrin Jones will hold a news conference at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday pushing back on [...]

Bobby Block, the current managing editor for Florida Today, will take on a new role as Executive Director for the Florida First Amendment Foundation. Block will succeed Pamela Marsh, who [...]

Gov. Ron DeSantis started out his week with the Florida Sheriff’s Association (FSA), where he discussed his desire to allow juries to administer the death penalty via a supermajority vote, rather than [...]

Good Monday morning. Let’s start the day with some good news about some good people. Cesar Fernandez is joining the sports-betting company FanDuel in a national role where he will [...]

Republican efforts at rolling back the state’s abortion rights brought Vice President Kamala Harris to Tallahassee Sunday where she also panned the state’s move to block a course on African [...]

Lawmakers are back in Tallahassee for the third interim committee week ahead of the 2023 Legislative Session. There aren’t any holidays to shorten this committee week like there were for [...]

In what could be termed an abundance of caution, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will pick up the pace of discharges from Lake Okeechobee in response to continued high [...]

Vice President Kamala Harris came to Tallahassee on the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling where she vowed that the Biden administration would continue to take steps to [...]

A former statewide candidate will be among the speakers.A leading women’s rights organization is trumpeting what it calls a day of “action” in South Florida Sunday as part of the [...]

Vice President Kamala Harris is delivering a speech Sunday in Tallahassee to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the now-overturned Supreme Court decision establishing constitutional protections for abortion. [...]

The fortunes of both Florida Democrats and President Joe Biden in the Sunshine State arguably could be better. Biden lost the state in 2020, and the FDP, which is again searching [...]

A Democratic Senator from Palm Beach County is speaking out against the Governor’s decision to spike an Advanced Placement class. Sen. Bobby Powell is warning that the decision to disallow an [...]

The VP will be in Tallahassee Sunday.With few options available for ensuring abortion access, Vice President Kamala Harris will demonstrate that Democrats aren’t giving up on the issue as she [...]

A federal judge ruled Friday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the First Amendment and the Florida Constitution by removing an elected state prosecutor, but that the federal courts lack [...]

The one-sided feud between Florida Sen. Rick Scott and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continues. During an interview Friday afternoon on Philadelphia’s WPHT-AM, Scott suggested that the Kentucky Republican could have stopped [...]

Since Roe was overturned seven months ago, 13 states have completely banned abortion.State Rep. Anna V. Eskamani will serve as the host and mistress of ceremonies for the Bigger Than [...]

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is coming to South Florida next week to highlight her Department’s efforts to collaborate with state and local partners on Everglades protections and [...]

Tampa City Council member Bill Carlson, just hours before the qualifying deadline passes for the 2023 municipal elections, has drawn two challengers. As recently as Thursday, he had been unopposed. [...]

Good Friday morning. U.S. Rep. Greg Steube’s staff provided an update Thursday on the Congressman’s condition after a fall from a ladder at his home. “The Congressman spent the night [...]

Two days after a two dozen Generation Z activists from across the state implored her to take the plunge, former Miami Sen. Annette Taddeo confirmed she is running for Florida [...]

Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot The nonprofit Parkland 17 Memorial Foundation has launched a fundraising drive to build and maintain [...]

Search for the word “climate” on Twitter and the first automatic recommendation isn’t “climate crisis” or “climate jobs” or even “climate change” but instead “climate scam.” Clicking on the recommendation [...]

Ever since the Legislature required felons to pay court fees after they’ve completed their sentences, the state has never provided an accessible system to determine their eligibility to vote — [...]

Good Thursday morning. Medicaid continuous coverage requirements expire at the end of March and Florida will begin the process of deciphering who will remain eligible for the $36 billion safety [...]