Florida housing sales during 2019’s third quarter were up by 8.1 percent and median home-sale values increased nearly 4 percent over 2018’s third quarter, according to a November market data analysis by Florida Realtors, which cites a “rising pending inventory” of sales by year’s end in fore…
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) is reconsidering its plan to shift $50 billion in U.S. government employees’ retirement savings into a fund that includes Chinese government-owned companies, but a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators wants to forbid such an option from eve…
Florida managed care plans that participate in Medicaid and the state’s KidCare program fall below the national median in follow-up hospitalizations for mental illnesses for children, according to study findings released last week by the Trump administration.
Senior U.S. Circuit Court Judge Paul Kelly heard 90 minutes of testimony in his Albuquerque, N.M., courtroom last week in Florida’s 2013 lawsuit against Georgia demanding it impose ”reasonable regulation" of "unrestrained and mismanaged" irrigation by farmers along the Flint River.
If the Legislature sustains funding for Gov. Ron DeSantis’s $2.5 billion water-quality improvement plan, its four consecutive years of $625 million annual infusions will “transform Florida,” state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Noah Valenstein predicts.
The state’s largest teachers union and other plaintiffs have dropped their July 2018 lawsuit against a state law adopted that year that requires teacher unions to be regularly recertified to represent employees.
Florida ranks 50th in the nation in volunteerism, according to the Florida Nonprofit Alliance, and the U.S. Census Bureau says the Sunshine State is one of the least civically active in the country, ranking near the bottom in voter turnout, public meeting attendance and in community organiza…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an under-count of an estimated 1.3 million residents in the 2010 decennial census cost Florida state and local governments up to $14.6 billion in “returned tax money” over the last decade.
Sen. Linda Stewart, D-Orlando, vowed in August that she would file bills seeking to ban three different types of “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines” during the 2020 legislative session.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Republican lawmakers got their wish Wednesday when the Florida Supreme Court heard their challenges to a federal lawsuit filed against a 2019 law that requires felons to resolve court-ordered financial obligations – fines, fees, restitution – before their voting r…
Florida housing sales during 2019’s third quarter were up by 8.1 percent and median home-sale values increased nearly 4 percent over 2018’s third quarter, according to a November market data analysis by Florida Realtors, which cites a “rising pending inventory” of sales by year’s end in fore…
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) is reconsidering its plan to shift $50 billion in U.S. government employees’ retirement savings into a fund that includes Chinese government-owned companies, but a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators wants to forbid such an option from eve…
Florida managed care plans that participate in Medicaid and the state’s KidCare program fall below the national median in follow-up hospitalizations for mental illnesses for children, according to study findings released last week by the Trump administration.
Senior U.S. Circuit Court Judge Paul Kelly heard 90 minutes of testimony in his Albuquerque, N.M., courtroom last week in Florida’s 2013 lawsuit against Georgia demanding it impose ”reasonable regulation" of "unrestrained and mismanaged" irrigation by farmers along the Flint River.
If the Legislature sustains funding for Gov. Ron DeSantis’s $2.5 billion water-quality improvement plan, its four consecutive years of $625 million annual infusions will “transform Florida,” state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Noah Valenstein predicts.
The state’s largest teachers union and other plaintiffs have dropped their July 2018 lawsuit against a state law adopted that year that requires teacher unions to be regularly recertified to represent employees.
Florida ranks 50th in the nation in volunteerism, according to the Florida Nonprofit Alliance, and the U.S. Census Bureau says the Sunshine State is one of the least civically active in the country, ranking near the bottom in voter turnout, public meeting attendance and in community organiza…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an under-count of an estimated 1.3 million residents in the 2010 decennial census cost Florida state and local governments up to $14.6 billion in “returned tax money” over the last decade.
Sen. Linda Stewart, D-Orlando, vowed in August that she would file bills seeking to ban three different types of “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines” during the 2020 legislative session.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Republican lawmakers got their wish Wednesday when the Florida Supreme Court heard their challenges to a federal lawsuit filed against a 2019 law that requires felons to resolve court-ordered financial obligations – fines, fees, restitution – before their voting r…
As many as 2 million working-class Floridians could see annual rebates of up to $500 in state “consumption taxes” if a South Florida Democrat’s proposed bill gains election-year traction in the state’s Republican-controlled legislature.
