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Millions of Americans have an intellectual disability, for years they were known as living with mental retardation; a new law in Florida is changing that. 23-year-old Brittany Norman works like most ...
The group responsible for getting the felons voting rights amendment on the ballot announced an initiative Tuesday to help pay off the fines, fees and restitution owed by an estimated 500,000 felons ...
Environmental spending came out strong even after the Governor’s vetoes. $100 million for Florida Forever and $372 million for the everglades survived the Governor’s self described ‘Red Wedding’ that ...
Know as the whistling justice, the life of former Supreme Court of Florida Justice Parker Lee McDonald was honored at Florida’s high court today. McDonald appointed to the high court in 1979 and ...
How FAMU Lowered Crime Despite Being in the County With the Highest Crime Rate in Florida June 29th, 2017 by Jake Stofan Two weeks ago we told you residents in the state Capital were more likely to ...
Imagine being fingered for a crime by an eyewitness even though you were nowhere near the crime scene. It happens more often than you might think. But as Mike Vasilinda tells us, legislation signed by ...
The county surrounding the state’s capital city is the latest jurisdiction to mandate face masks for indoor public places, but a lawsuit is already planned that could set a precedent for challenging ...
Officials with Equality Florida and the Florida Democratic Party are criticizing Governor Rick Scott for failing to issue an executive order protecting LGBTQ individuals from employment discrimination ...
Hurricane Irma caused an estimated $50 billion in damage when it hit last Fall. While the one year anniversary of the storm is less than three months away, federal aid hasn’t made it to local ...
Legislation making major changes to Florida’s building code got bundled with more than a dozen other changes in construction law this past session, and as Mike Vasilinda tells us, a coalition of ...
Government watchdog Florida TaxWatch offered up a dozen ideas for balancing the budget in the wake of the pandemic. They include collecting the tax already owed on internet sales to delaying more than ...
A circuit court judge says the Florida Legislature ignored the will of voters when the approved Amendment 1 in 2014. After a three year battle, environmentalists scored their first major victory in ...