A proposal that would start the ball rolling toward eliminating property taxes in Florida was heard this week in a House committee. As Gina Jordan reports, it seeks a study to determine how much money would disappear -- and how local governments might recoup that revenue elsewhere.
A plan to make it easier for journalists and others to be sued is back for a second year. Pensacola Republican Representative Alex Andrade’s bill also lays the groundwork for people to sue those who use artificial intelligence to cast people in a false light. WFSU’s Tristan Wood talked with Andrade about why he is looking to make these changes and how he responds to critics who say his bill could chill free speech.
Differences persist between House and Senate versions of a measure that would remove at least some work restrictions for Florida’s 16 and 17 year olds who are still enrolled in school.
Members of the Florida National and State Guard along with the Florida Highway Patrol are heading to the US-Mexico border under the directive Gov. Ron DeSantis. It’s not the first time Florida officials have gone to Texas to help. but as Adrian Andrews reports, this DOES mark the first out-of-state deployment for the newly formed State guard in an ongoing fight between Republican-led border states and the Democratic Presidential administration over how to address the number of undocumented immigrants trying to enter the United States.
Florida’s Republican-led legislature has rejected expanding Medicaid for a decade. Now, a group of Floridians wants to go around them and put the question directly to voters. Regan McCarthy reports they’re launching a citizens initiative to put the issue on the ballot in 2026.
Should law enforcement officers be able to claim victim protection if they’re threatened with violence while on the job? That’s the question before state lawmakers in a new legislative proposal. It's a response to a recent Florida Supreme Court ruling over the state’s Marsy’s Law. Richard Brown has more.
The cost of signing up for the Florida Prepaid program to create a youngster’s college fund has gone down.
One reason Florida doesn’t have wildfires like so many western states is a prescribed burn program that deprives would-be wildfires of the fuel they need to start and grow. Tom Flanigan has that.