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Jul 9Liked by Jason Garcia

Honestly … I’ve been a paid subscriber for a while. If you’re just going to send out links to stories I can’t read because of paywalls, I may reluctantly have to reconsider. Sorry to be negative because mostly your content is interesting and insightful.

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Hi there. Florida in Five is a once-a-week feature we've started, to highlight other stories around the state that I think are important and that folks might have missed. Not every story featured is behind a paywall. And those that are behind a paywall are marked with a "$" to save people from clicking if they do not wish too.

Florida in Five is in addition to Seeking Rent's original reporting. Here's just a sampling from the past few weeks:

-- Florida Republicans protected insurance companies from competition. Florida homeowners are now paying higher prices.

https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/florida-republicans-protected-insurance

-- A newspaper beat a libel lawsuit filed by a politician – using a law that some politicians want to weaken

https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/a-newspaper-beat-a-libel-lawsuit

-- Ron DeSantis just signed a law that will stop ethics investigations before they can start

https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/ron-desantis-just-signed-a-law-that

-- Cities and counties can ban gas leaf blowers, thanks to DeSantis veto

https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/cities-and-counties-can-ban-gas-leaf

-- Lawfare in Florida (podcast)

https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/lawfare-in-florida

-- A giant homebuilder wrote a Florida law to build housing subdivisions faster and cheaper

https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/a-giant-homebuilder-wrote-a-florida

-- Florida may finally have a good cop on the insurance beat (podcast)

https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/florida-may-finally-have-a-good-cop

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Florida citizens and the homeless, crimilanized under a flawed economic plan of gentrification, need some water guns for their cause by following Spain, who demanded because of cost of living crisis from over tourism:

…..an end to tourism advertisements using public money. #DoNotVisitFlorida

Responding to growing concerns, Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni pledged Saturday to reserve 10,000 residential units usually used by tourists for local residents and increase taxes on tourists, among other measures.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/07/09/barcelona-anti-tourism-protest-water-guns/

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The only way to stop this madness is to help the Dems elect their candidates in November. Blame the republicans and hold them accountable.

It takes at least $100K to affords $2000 in rent. It's called math. But then again, they dismantled the public education (now students teach students instead of instructors) so they probably can't do math.

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