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This system would allow people with limited access to state-issued IDs to receive locally-issued ones.

Gigi Simmons is a lifelong resident of the Porters community in east Gainesville, and as of May 17, she is the newest city commissioner to represent District 1 on the commission. Representing an area of Gainesville with some of the highest levels of poverty, Simmons began her tenure as commissioner …

A list of the laws and projects that legislators representing local counties were able to get through the Florida legislature in 2018.

City and county officials have tried for two years to make it so bus riders won’t have to cross the dangerous street.

A new anti-panhandling ordinance went into effect on April 6  in the city of Saint Augustine that prohibits people from panhandling within 20 feet of the entry or exit of commercial property.

Larson does what many deem unthinkable — he's a pastor who runs a bar. One day when he was praying about the struggle to turn a profit, he heard God say, “Take care of the fringe and marginalized in the nations, and I’ll have them take care of you.” Now, Larson thinks it would have been a sin not to buy the bar.

The idea of benefits for certain Other Personnel Services workers at the University of Florida has re-emerged.