A key House Committee this week came up with 7 potential ways to lower – or even eliminate – residential property taxes in Florida. WUSF’s Douglas Soule has been following the action at the Capitol.
Florida A&M University President Marva Johnson recently marked her first 100 days on the job. Johnson came to the role with plenty of controversy due to her ties to Governor Ron DeSantis, and her lack of experience in academia. Johnson earned an MBA and a Juris Doctor. Before coming to FAMU, she was Group Vice President of State Government Affairs for Charter Communications, a cable and broadband company. Gina Jordan sat down with Johnson for an interview that was recorded in mid-November (Nov 14) at The Lawson Center on the FAMU campus.
State lawmaker and former technology company CEO Kevin Steele officially entered the Florida CFO race last week, ending months of widespread speculation. Steele, the wealthiest state lawmaker since he was elected in 2023, has been one of the champions of the several property tax reduction proposals currently being debated in the Florida Legislature. He’s been carrying the torch on that issue for a while, filing several bills last year that would have reduced property taxes. A Tampa Bay native, the lawmaker has 4 daughters and 2 grandkids and he’s married to Michele. He is not the only candidate so far in the race. Blaise Ingoglia, the current state CFO who was appointed to the job in July to fill a vacancy, is also running for the job. Tristan Wood spoke with Steele about why he’s running, his property tax proposal and what he be believes he offers that other candidates in the race do not.
Doctors are getting a major boost in the battle against breast cancer by utilizing Artificial Intelligence. Lee Health in Southwest Florida is incorporating A-I into all mammograms -- to help detect cancer cells that might otherwise go unnoticed. One Fort Myers radiologist says the upgrade in technology is making breast cancer screenings faster and more accurate, as WGCU’s Jennifer Crawford reports.
And Dr. Handa says she also has found cancers A-I did not flag. More than 8,500 mammograms have been read by AI since the program was launched in September. And Handa says at Lee Health there is no increased cost to patients for the use of A-I in screening for breast cancer.
The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season is about to end without a single storm making landfall in Florida.
Tom Flanigan spoke with some former colleagues of veteran Capital Press Corps member Bill Cotterell who died this week.