The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed two linked proposals (SB 96 and SB 98) that would create a $500 million “Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund” that the governor could directly access.
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The Florida Legislature must decide whether to approve a proposed budget that would reallocate funding among school districts in the state.
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TALLAHASSEE — A Senate bill approved Tuesday would require colleges and universities to change accrediting organizations at the end of each accreditation cycle, a proposal that drew skepticism from Democrats. The Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee voted 6-3 along party lines to support the bill (SPB 7044), which came after the …
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Tufts University’s 2022 Youth Electoral Significance Index found that Florida is ranked in the top 10 states to have the greatest youth impact on upcoming senate and gubernatorial elections, respectively.
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Dylan Melendez wants a slower-paced environment without forfeiting a hometown feel. A former Miami resident, Melendez, 29, who works as a barista at Joel’s Coffeehouse in Newberry, is in a better spot than most people moving into Alachua County amid a housing shortage: She has moved in with family. Knowing …
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In October, GRU's rates for electric, water and wastewater rose by 4%.
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Open discourse has a checkered history on campus.
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Gainesville held a groundbreaking ceremony for an eastside housing development Monday. In 2019, the city donated 11 lots to Habitat for Humanity. The pandemic initially halted the plans. As WUFT’s Kendall Brandt shows us, the project is back on track and about to change lives.
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MADISON, Fla. – A small, historically Black city an hour east of Tallahassee is in the crosshairs of a controversial redistricting plan by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The plan would radically redraw the state’s 5th congressional district and could cost the Black Democrat who represents it his seat in Congress. Madison …
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Five lynching victims from Alachua County communities will be remembered with a soil collection ceremony next month. The five African American victims killed between 1889 and 1926 were from Waldo, Hawthorne, Rochelle and Campville. Three of the victims were identified as George Buddington, Henry White and Charles Willis. A boy …
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