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Visa and Mastercard are lobbying for inflated credit card fees in Florida

Billionaires and big corporations unite in Florida…to squeeze 40-hour workweeks out of high school kids

Cheered on by chain restaurants, Florida Republicans push forward with a bill to let businesses make teenagers work longer hours during the school year

Local communities keep trying to help workers. Corporate lobbyists and Florida politicians keep teaming up to stop them.

Retail giants like Walmart, Target and Home Depot want to put more people in prison in Florida

Records show how Ron DeSantis targets his attacks on free speech — despite what his lawyers claim in court

The public price tag on Florida's private train keeps going up

Records show DeSantis plotted more punishment for Disney

A think tank funded by a far-right billionaire wrote a bill to weaken child-labor laws in Florida, records show

Koch Industries is laying off hundreds in a hurricane-stricken community. Florida might give the company a tax break anyway.

Ron DeSantis seized control of Disney's district. Employees are now quitting en masse.

As his campaign runs low on cash, DeSantis turns to big Florida businesses for help

Emails show the sponsor of a new Florida law wanted to target drag queens

A billionaire-backed think tank keeps sabotaging Florida workers. More attacks are coming.

Dark lobbying in the Florida Legislature

A national anti-union group tries to capitalize on a new union-busting law in Florida

Florida rigged the rules for special interests who squeeze tax breaks out of Tallahassee. That's now causing chaos.

Rigging the rules: How the state of Florida helps some special interests skip out on property taxes

Ron DeSantis tried to give $25 million to a gun company

The billionaires financing union-busting in Florida

How the state of Florida tries to control speech about Black people, women and LGBTQ+ people — under the guise of 'individual freedom'

Florida's insurance cops are asleep on the beat, private school vouchers are paying for TVs and Disney tickets, and another billionaire got his way in Tallahassee

A lawyer for Ron DeSantis revealed the real motive behind one of Florida's most controversial laws

Report: Ron DeSantis personally intervened in a major university’s presidential search

Ron DeSantis made it harder for Floridians to fight their insurance companies. One of his aides is now fighting his insurance company.

An ethics commissioner with an ethics problem, a potential George Santos in the state House, and the homebuilder behind the curtain

Ron DeSantis may try to make it harder for immigrants to send money from Florida

A giant real-estate developer may have discovered another tax loophole in Florida

Ron DeSantis goes union-busting

How the 'Free State of Florida' works with business lobbyists to keep wages low

Records show Ron DeSantis took $300,000 from Florida lobbyists

Customers took Florida's biggest power company to court. Ron DeSantis and lawmakers stepped up to help...the power company.

The 'Free State of Florida' just took rights away from 1.5 million Floridians

Flood the swamp: Ron DeSantis keeps dragging Florida backwards on campaign-finance reform

More than 1.5 million Florida renters are about to lose rights – unless Ron DeSantis does something very soon

Records show DeSantis' Disney board chairman wanted taxpayers to spend millions on attorney fees in a Tampa tax fight

A mining company gave lots of money to Ron DeSantis. Now DeSantis is helping the company turn toxic waste into profit.

Florida’s tourism industry has taken billions from residents of Florida’s biggest tourism town — and now it wants more

How Ron DeSantis helps the billionaires who help him

After a personal meeting, and a $10,000 donation, DeSantis approved a $10 million earmark

Report: After DeSantis intervened, a state college scrapped its search for a new president and will hand the job to a politician

Three days after Disney sued DeSantis, lawmakers tripled the governor's budget for lawyers

Well...that happened

Florida lawmakers try to solve a toxic waste problem — and help an industrial giant

Florida leaders are talking tough about Disney. They may give the company a big tax break, too.

The Florida Legislature is working on a bunch of favors for big power companies

Florida lawmakers may let companies slash wages for tens of thousands of workers across the state

Tax cuts on diapers, toothpaste and trigger locks. And tax breaks for homebuilders, power companies and home-alarm firms.

Will Florida lawmakers let Universal Orlando take another $4 million in tax breaks?

Records show DeSantis wanted to make university president searches a secret

A lucrative contract and lots of money for lawsuits and large landowners: A tour of Florida's proposed budget

The worst tax break in Florida

A chemical company that donated to Ron DeSantis now wants the state to help sell its product

After Donald Trump blasts insurance industry 'bailout,' Ron DeSantis retreats behind closed doors to sign it

A Walmart-backed startup doesn't like local government rules. It wants Tallahassee to overturn them.

Florida politicians are waging war on workers. Not even astronauts or baseball players are safe.

Ron DeSantis’ crackdown on “woke” banks could help a big Ron DeSantis donor

What did Ron DeSantis really work on last session? A year later, his office still won’t say.

Florida leaders may offer protection...to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

A Lennar-backed company is lobbying for a tax break that could save money for Lennar

As a new session begins, don't watch what Ron DeSantis says. Watch what Ron DeSantis does.

Florida lawmakers might take money from college students and give it to gas stations

Major League Baseball wants Ron DeSantis and the Legislature to carve minor league players out of Florida's minimum wage

Ron DeSantis wants people to stop suing insurance companies — and start suing newspapers

Car dealers are lobbying to make sure consumers must keep haggling with high-pressure salesmen

After smacking down Disney, Ron DeSantis might give the company a big gift

A big corporate tax break is lurking behind the scenes in Tallahassee

Ron DeSantis and the Legislature are about to take health insurance away from hundreds of thousands of Floridians

Ron DeSantis is weaponizing partisan media — and weakening independent sources of news

Corporate landlords are confident Florida lawmakers will be lapdogs rather than watchdogs

The Florida Senate is about to attack local freedom — again

Florida is letting a few global firms avoid millions of dollars a year in taxes on profits that have been shifted overseas

Never let a good crisis go to waste: Tourism lobbyists pitch tax breaks for tourism as a solution to Florida's affordable housing woes

After taking money from Walmart heirs, Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature helped billionaires hide their family fortunes

Did Ron DeSantis try to get Disney a tax break?