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Literary lights host Spell-O-Rama to fight book banning

By Elena Giardina, Boston Globe, September 27, 2023. The adult spelling bee raises funds for the Florida Freedom to Read Project, and you don’t have to be a writer or a speller to join. In honor of Banned Books Week, Celeste Ng and the Blaze Writers Project will turn Belmont’s Trinktisch beer hall into a

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FL Dems speak out again against DeSantis’ suspension of Orange County prosecutor Monique Worrell

By MITCH PERRY , The Florida Phoenix, Sept 5, 2023. A month after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, Florida Democratic state lawmakers held press conferences in Orlando, Miami, and Tampa on Tuesday calling that decision an attack on direct democracy. DeSantis suspension of Worrell last month for allegedly “neglecting her duty

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Ron DeSantis is afraid of questions from a 15 year-old

By Jake Lahut, The Daily Beast, September 1, 2023. Quinn Mitchell has seen at least 35 presidential candidates in person since 2019, when he first started showing up at New Hampshire primary events to ask them questions. Not a single one of them had ever treated the now-15-year-old as if he were a threat—until Ron DeSantis came

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Energy companies behind bills filed in Florida Legislature

[A] gas company based in Maryland called Chesapeake Utilities wrote at least a couple energy bills for the Florida legislature this past session. “We saw, unfortunately, the fossil fuel industry show up in a very real way. Chesapeake Utility is just one example. We also saw the Florida Natural Gas Association registered on a lot

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It’s toxic slime time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee

Writer Dan Egan and photographer Josh Ritchie, New York Times, July 9, 2023. For thousands of years, Lake Okeechobee pumped life into Florida’s swampy interior. Summer rains swelled the shallow inland sea, creating seasonal overflows that sustained the Everglades and its alligators, panthers, spoonbills and snail kites. But a vast re-engineering over the past century

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Florida is now America’s inflation hotspot

By Bryan Mena and Alicia Wallace, CNN, July 10, 2023 Florida is America’s inflation hotspot because of a persistent problem with sky-high housing costs. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach area has the highest inflation rate of metro areas with more than 2.5 million residents, with a 9% inflation rate for the 12 months ended in

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Biden's Vision

Bidenomics delivers!

An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson’s daily  Letters from an American,  July 6, 2023. Subscribe to it HERE.  President Biden was in South Carolina yesterday to talk about Bidenomics. After touting the huge investments of both public and private capital that are bringing new businesses and repaired infrastructure to that state, Biden noted that analysts

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FDP Chair Nikki Fried celebrates Biden’s billion dollar Internet investment in Florida

Tallahassee, FL — After the Biden-Harris administration announced major investments to expand access to affordable, high-speed internet in all 50 states, Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried issued the following statement: “Access to high-speed internet, especially in our rural communities, has long served as a dividing line in our state,” said Chair Fried. “With this historic $1.17 billion

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Immigration

Campaigning in Texas, DeSantis reveals unsparing 2024 immigration platform

By JACKIE LLANOS , Florida Phoenix, June 26, 2023.  Gov. Ron DeSantis announces at a June 26 campaign event in Eagle Pass, Texas, his plan to tackle undocummented immigration if he wins the 2024 presidential election. Photo credit: Rumble Just days before Florida’s newest and most restrictive immigration law takes effect, Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged to allow

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Moms For Liberty deemed hate group by SPLC

By Scott Lawson, Managing Editor, The Venice Gondolier, June 7, 2023. Protesters gathered outside a Moms for Liberty event in Tampa in July, 2022. NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA PHOTO BY RYAN DAILY Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks on July 2022 at a Moms for Liberty event in Tampa. News Service of Florida/Ryan Dailey SARASOTA —

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Immigration

Will DeSantis be charged with kidnapping?

By Jim Turner,  News Service of Florida, June 6, 2023. TALLAHASSEE — California officials are continuing to hold Florida responsible for flights Friday and Monday that brought South American migrants from El Paso, Texas, to Sacramento. The June flights come months after Gov. Ron DeSantis — who recently announced his bid for president — took credit for transporting

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Health Care

Maybe Florida should restrict sale of Viagra

The following Letter to the Editor was published in The Daily Sun on May 20, 2023. Who controls women’s reproductive decisions? Seventy of Florida’s legislators and Governor DeSantis have decided that the Florida Legislature should control the reproductive decisions of all women in the state of Florida. It appears that our legislators will not be

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Environment

How about One Planet, One Water?

The following editorial was published in The Daily Sun on May 13, 2023. OUR POSITION: Water quality is such an important issue that numerous entities must work together to ensure Southwest Floridians can feel secure their water is clean, safe and in abundant supply. A recent editorial board meeting with members of the Peace+Myakka Waterkeepers reminded

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