Florida Roundup

Note: This episode was broadcast just before the appeals ruling was issued on Friday, so the information in the show about the mask case is not up to…

A handful of school districts across the state are enforcing mask mandates despite Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order guaranteeing parents have the right…

This week, four Florida school districts defied, to varying degrees, an executive order from Gov. Ron DeSantis that bans mask mandates. Duval, Alachua,…

COVID-19 infections are rising in Florida and hospitals are filling up with patients sick with the Delta variant. Public hospitals serve a large portion…

COVID cases have surged in Florida in the past few weeks amid a plateau of vaccination rates and the spread of the Delta variant. Florida had 45,603 cases…

The number of COVID-19 cases in Florida has nearly doubled since last week.And yet, as the COVID numbers in Florida are rising, the pace of vaccinations…

Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings is hoping to take on Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the 2022 election. Demings said that she has raised more…

President Joe Biden arrived this week in Surfside, where he met with the first responders and families affected by the Champlain Towers collapse and…

Early Thursday morning, part of the 12-story Champlain Towers South in Surfside, near Miami Beach, collapsed. As of Friday evening, four people are…

Florida residents, more so than in any other state, are facing criminal charges for their participation in the January 6 Capitol insurrection. According…