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Democrats took issue with a major legislative crackdown on illegal immigration that moves closer to passage in the Florida Senate.
The report states DeSantis marches "in step with Israel’s increasingly very right-wing government.”
With the Legislature soon winding down, state House members Monday for the first time took up a proposal cracking down on this.
As rent costs rise dramatically in Fla., dozens of cities and counties have been passing ordinances — often called tenant “bill of rights."
It's about this time of the year when the Legislature is crafting Florida's massive state budget.
An expansion of the Florida State Guard was created last year to supplement the Florida National Guard.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo's confirmation to a second term in that office is headed to the state Senate floor.
The report indicates the separation of church and state is being tested, as Speir opines "Jesus Christ is the way of truth."
Concerns of systemic racism have become part of a higher education bill in the Legislature, a result of DeSantis's efforts, the report says.
The Republican governor made a national name for himself by imposing a conservative agenda which some outlets have called extremist.
The requests have occurred since the Florida Legislature required felons to pay court fees after completing their sentences.
A bill cracking down on undocumented immigration in Florida has finally been filed in the House of Representatives.
Jason Weida is secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration in Florida who is up for Senate confirmation.
The Republican-dominated Florida House voted Wednesday to continue to batter the LGBTQ+ community with its actions.
Zheng Dauble says she has lived in the United States for 25 years and enjoys it, but recently, while shopping, she encountered Asian hate.
DeSantis signed into law a requirement that lowers jurors needed to recommend the death penalty -- called "unconstitutional" by officials.
Recalling the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the murders of Medgar Evers and Emmett Till -- it all stays, defying DeSantis.
Florida's local school boards have been partisan for at least two decades, but that could change immeasurably.
Democrats and voting rights advocates say restrictions imposed on third-party voter registration groups are items most problematic.
Britney Ortiz came to Florida as a young child from Mexico. Now, the 20-year-old Orlando resident intends to transfer to Central Florida.