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In Tallahassee, a feast of tax breaks for businesses – and table scraps for everyone else
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
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Jason Garcia
Florida taxpayers will help fund a lavish pay package for a new university president
A last-minute measure would let Florida A&M University trustees spend extra public money on a nearly $900,000 pay package for the Ron DeSantis-backed…
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Jason Garcia
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Florida Legislature 2025: Last-minute mischief
Florida lawmakers spring an eleventh-hour plan to expand a controversial school privatization program.
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Jason Garcia
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Your town, their rules
Politicians in Florida and other states — particularly across the U.S. South — are using a little-understood tool to strip cities of power, reverse…
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Jason Garcia
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Florida f—ed up.
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
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Jason Garcia
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The University of Florida sinks into the swamp
The partisan takeover of public education in Florida claims the state’s flagship university.
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Jason Garcia
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Florida AG made sweeping claims in confidential abortion case
Read the Attorney General's legal arguments in a secretive court case that has further curtailed abortion rights in Florida
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Jason Garcia
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Florida Legislature 2025: Donors over voters
A budget deal, a lawsuit, and a veto reveal who Florida’s political leaders are truly serving in Tallahassee.
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Jason Garcia
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Ron DeSantis just pocketed nearly $1 million from an industry he helped
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
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Jason Garcia
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May 2025

Ron DeSantis is back...sort of
Florida's once-untouchable governor is trying to reassert himself after state lawmakers failed to fully rein him in.
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Jason Garcia
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30:24
The Florida Senate gave Ron DeSantis an inch. He's taking a mile.
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
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Jason Garcia
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Florida just took more abortion rights away
A far-reaching court ruling essentially eliminates a legal process by which pregnant teenagers in need of an abortion can get permission from a judge …
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Jason Garcia
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