Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee will investigate Facebook for alleged election interference at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis, who claims the social media giant is “clandestinely manipulating elections” by exempting “VIP users” from…
By 2040, nearly 60% of passenger vehicle sales in Florida will be electric and 35% of cars on Sunshine State roads will be electric vehicles (EVs), according to estimates by the Florida Department of Transportation…
Only Louisiana ranks lower than Florida in COVID-19 vaccination rates among nursing home workers with less than 42% of staff caring for more than 160,000 Floridians in 700-plus nursing homes and assisted living facilities fully…
Digital sports books are serious about disrupting Florida’s gambling laws by sponsoring a 2022 ballot measure to legalize sports betting – $20 million upfront serious. According to the state’s Division of Elections (DOE), the newly-formed…
When all is said and done, proponents and opponents could spend $1 billion trying to convince Floridians to expand or restrict gambling with $62 million already pledged to back or challenge three November 2022 ballot…
On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis took off from Cape Canaveral with a six-member crew and returned on July 21. It was the 135th and final mission of the U.S. space shuttle program…
Last month, Gov. Ron DeSantis mused of all the legal arguments the state will need to make in fending off lawsuits filed against controversial 2021 bills adopted by Florida’s GOP-dominated Legislature, the one challenging the…
Florida lawmakers last month sent Gov. Ron DeSantis a $101.5 billion Fiscal Year 2022 budget that, bloated by federal pandemic relief funds, increased spending by nearly 10% over this year’s $92.2 billion budget. On Wednesday,…
Florida’s 67 county governments, 412 municipalities and approximately 1,000 special districts tax-and-spend more than $80 billion annually, more than half of all government spending in the state. Florida law spells out quarterly reporting requirements for…
The Florida Senate Tuesday adopted a bill creating a state gaming commission but legislation seeking to legalize fantasy sports gaming is dead for the year. Sen. Travis Hutson, R-St. Augustine, announced Tuesday he was withdrawing Senate…