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WEBSep 4, 2024 — BY: Nada Hassanein - September 1, 2024. ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida is the hottest state in the contiguous United States, and its residents suffer the most heat-related illness. Older people are most susceptible to the heat, and nearly 4.7 million Floridians — 1 in 5 residents — are older than 65. The peninsula has 8,436 miles of coastline ...
Petition asks FL Supreme Court to stop DeSantis from ‘interfering’ …
WEB18 hours ago — A South Florida appellate attorney asked the Florida Supreme Court Tuesday to stop Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials from “interfering” with the election for the proposed abortion-rights amendment. In his petition, Adam Richardson alleges that Florida’s top leaders are misusing and abusing their offices in opposition to Amendment 4, which would protect abortion […]
New report lists keys to reach Latino vote in Florida
WEB21 hours ago — The report says 50% of Latino eligible voters in Florida are bilingual and could be contacted in both English and Spanish. In Miami-Dade County, fewer than 10% of Latinos only speak English while 40% speak only Spanish. The investments in Spanish media could be decisive in what has become closer contest with eight weeks to …
DeSantis defends state webpage critical of abortion-rights …
WEB18 hours ago — Gov. Ron DeSantis said he does not know whose idea it was for a state agency to publish a webpage attacking Amendment 4, the proposed abortion-right amendment on the November ballot, but he also insists the page is entirely accurate. “It’s not an anti-Amendment 4,” DeSantis declared during a news conference Tuesday of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration’s page.
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WEBABOUT US. The Phoenix is a nonprofit news site that’s free of advertising and free to readers. We cover state government and politics with a staff of five journalists located at the Florida Press Center in downtown Tallahassee. We have a mix of in-depth stories, briefs, and social media updates on the latest events, editorial cartoons, and ...
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WEBSep 4, 2024 — BY: Jackie Llanos - September 3, 2024. The Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs is asking the state Legislature for $3.5 million to cover extra food and contractor costs at its nursing homes through July 2025, citing an increase in the occupancy rate. Lawmakers on the Florida Legislative Budget Commission are set to meet on Friday to ...
FDA greenlights new COVID vaccine after a summer of rising …
WEBAug 22, 2024 — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved an updated COVID-19 vaccine intended to address severe symptoms of the virus ahead of the cold and flu season. The new booster shots from Moderna and Pfizer follow a summer of increasing COVID-19 cases and are designed to better address the variants that are circulating now.
New state budget advancing as FL Legislature prepares to end its ...
WEBMar 7, 2024 — Politics broke out on the floor of the Florida Senate Thursday as the chamber took up a $117.46 billion for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, with senators grousing about the governor’s power over spending and what one senator considered skullduggery. The Appropriations Act (HB 5001) is the only bill the Legislature absolutely […]
More and more 'special' sessions: Will FL Legislature ever review ...
WEBJan 23, 2023 — Since the last regular legislative session in March 2022 — normally a 60-day job to deal with Florida’s business — three “special” sessions cropped up in the state capital located in Tallahassee: The first one was in April, about congressional redistricting. The next two were in May and then December, about salvaging the state’s property […]