Moody wants Florida Supreme Court to block drive for recreational marijuana (www.sun-sentinel.com)
Attorney General Ashley Moody is urging the Florida Supreme Court to reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana by people 21 and older, arguing a ball…
More than 1.5 million Florida renters are about to lose rights – unless Ron DeSantis does something very soon (jasongarcia.substack.com)
See the long list of local renter-protection laws likely to be dissolved if Ron DeSantis decides to let a controversial, landlord-backed bill go into effect.
DeSantis asks federal judge to dismiss Disney suit, claiming broad immunity (www.cnbc.com)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asked a federal court to dismiss Disney's lawsuit that alleges political retaliation against the company.
Miami's mango trade: Swap your excess fruit for bread (www.wlrn.org)
Zak the Baker in Wynwood is offering a trade for anyone who has excess fruit in their backyard. Customers can exchange mangos for bread.
3 people have acquired malaria in the US. They’re the first in 20 years. (www.vox.com)
The cases, identified in Florida and Texas, raise a lot of questions.
Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing ban on minors attending drag shows (www.politico.com)
The plaintiffs argue the new law is overly vague.
College Board rejects Florida's request to remove LGBTQ subjects from AP courses (www.heraldtribune.com)
Florida education officials are asking College Board, which runs the Advanced Placement program, to remove LGBTQ subjects. The nonprofit refuses....
Moms for Liberty rises as power player in GOP politics after attacking schools over gender, race (www.sun-sentinel.com)
At least four Republican presidential candidates are scheduled to travel to Philadelphia later this month to speak at the annual gathering of Moms for Liberty, a Florida-based nonprofit that didn&#…
In Miami, Trump's ardent backers are a sign of the city's rightward shift (www.wlrn.org)
The federal charges against former President Donald Trump over classified documents have propelled the city of Miami to the center of a storyline that had been thought to be unfolding in Washington.
After rowdy town hall, Broward school board tilts against clear backpacks (www.wlrn.org)
Hundreds of people turned out for a town hall meeting on school safety hosted by the Broward County school district on Monday. The vast majority of speakers railed against a plan to require students to use clear backpacks — a proposal which now may be scrapped.
Francis Suarez, Miami’s Republican mayor, files to run for president in GOP primary (www.miamiherald.com)
Francis Suarez, Miami’s second-term mayor, has filed papers to run in the Republican presidential primary, casting himself as a conservative problem solver as he faces an FBI probe over payments from a developer seeking help from the city.
Florida prescription drug import decision could come in the fall (www.sun-sentinel.com)
A judge has put on hold key parts of a lawsuit filed by Florida against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, after the federal agency said it expects to make a decision by Oct. 31 on the state’s …
VIDEO: Nazis Wave Swastikas & DeSantis 2024 Flags, Yell 'White Power' Outside Walt Disney World Entrance - WDW News Today (wdwnt.com)
TikTok user @lenniequest shared a video of people at the Disney World entrance near Disney Springs waving Nazi flags and DeSantis 2024 flags.
Ron DeSantis’ deepfakes of Trump and Fauci are a kind of ‘fascist realism’ (www.fastcompany.com)
The AI-generated images camouflaged themselves among real news photos.
Transformers Con in Florida Warns Attendees of Anti-Trans State Restrictions (www.themarysue.com)
Are you allowed to cosplay as a Transformer of a different sex in Florida? We will see. A Transformers con in Orlando, Florida is warning its attendees of the restrictions and dangers some visitors may face because of the states many new anti-LGBTQ laws.
Miami braces for Trump’s historic criminal court hearing. Could trial wind up here, too? (www.miamiherald.com)
This is an unprecedented federal indictment of a former president of the United States, a man who — love him or hate him — once occupied the most powerful office in the world and remains a leading candidate to regain the Republican presidential nomination....
‘We’ll never be done’: The growing challenge to remove thousands of car tires from ocean floor (www.sun-sentinel.com)
Officials for years have been cleaning up hundreds of thousands of tires from the ocean floor off Broward, removing what was once meant to create a fish habitat but turned out to be an environmenta…
Farmers Insurance is leaving Florida in latest blow to homeowners (www.tampabay.com)
The decision was “necessary to effectively manage risk exposure,” the company said.
State University System, Ray Rodrigues effectively stops Florida Atlantic University presidential search (floridapolitics.com)
“At least one candidate reported he was requested to complete a questionnaire and answer if his sexual orientation was ‘queer’ and whether he was a ‘male or transgender male,’” Rodrigues states in his letter. “In a separate and required survey, the same candidate was subsequently asked if his gender was ‘male,...
[PowerPoll] The future of The Palm Beach Post (www.powerpoll.com)
On June 5, reporters at The Palm Beach Post joined two dozen other local newspapers across the U.S. in a one-day strike to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at their parent company Gannett, the country’s biggest newspaper chain.
Florida cracks down on transgender rights protesters 2 months after panty toss (www.orlandosentinel.com)
Several Capitol protesters have been arrested nearly two months after tossing panties to House members debating a bill to ban transgender care....
Kids with disabilities housed in Broward nursing homes could return to their families (www.wlrn.org)
A civil rights lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against Florida health regulators a decade ago has finally gone to trial. Carol Marbin Miller, the deputy investigations editor at the Miami Herald, spoke to WLRN about the case, and her eye-opening reporting on the living conditions of these children.
Activists push Broward sheriff to improve seldom-used arrest diversion program (www.wlrn.org)
A group of activists and religious leaders say thousands of Broward residents, mostly people of color, are being routinely sent to jail for minor offenses by police officers who rarely use a program to keep people from ending up behind bars.
Safety improvements coming to Brightline tracks in Broward County (www.local10.com)
Improvements will be made to the Brightline tracks in Broward County in an effort to prevent more tragedies from occurring.