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Florida Legislature 2026: A sneaky favor for the sugar industry?
Lawmakers in Florida may help agricultural corporations sue critics into silence.
Dec 5
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Jason Garcia
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Lobbyists for a mining company wrote a bill to block lawsuits over radiation on former mines
The legislation is designed to help Fortune 500 industrial giant Mosaic Co. redevelop some of the more than 200 square miles of former phosphate mines…
Dec 3
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Jason Garcia
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November 2025
Charter systems have targeted 450 public schools in Florida under a new privatization law
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
Nov 30
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Jason Garcia
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Orders from on high
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
Nov 24
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Jason Garcia
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Florida just approved the largest electric rate increase in history. Here's how it happened.
Florida Power & Light won permission last week to raise electricity rates by $7 billion over the next four years. Here's why it's so big, how FPL pulled…
Nov 23
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Jason Garcia
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The mystery money behind a propaganda machine
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
Nov 16
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Jason Garcia
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The story behind a shady land deal in Florida
Republican leaders in Florida used a sentence slipped into the new state budget to pay more than $80 million in taxpayer money for a piece of property…
Nov 13
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Jason Garcia
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22:11
One Government to rule them all
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
Nov 9
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Jason Garcia
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Florida Legislature 2026: Once more unto the breach
State lawmakers in Florida just resurrected two dangerous bills: One that could lead to a complete abortion ban and another that would protect a giant…
Nov 6
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Jason Garcia
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Pulling back the curtain
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
Nov 2
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Jason Garcia
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Florida lawmakers took instructions from a landowner's lobbyist. Now Florida taxpayers will pay $83 million for four acres.
Records show a lobbyist wrote a law enabling a controversial land deal in which Florida will pay more than $20 million an acre to buy a tiny parcel of…
Nov 1
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Jason Garcia
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October 2025
Déjà vu all over again
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
Oct 26
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Jason Garcia
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