Seeking to keep higher-education costs low and help more students graduate on time, Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday will outline an ambitious legislative agenda to cap student fees, eliminate sales taxes on textbook purchases and extend the Bright Futures scholarships to summer classes.
Read More »Former House Speaker Steve Crisafulli bowed out of a potential race for agriculture commissioner on Tuesday, leaving the 2018 campaign for the Cabinet position without a clear front-runner.
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In 2016, Donald Trump was elected to the White House. The Cubs won the World Series. And Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In other words, it was the kind of year that seemed designed to make Florida news look normal.
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With the state's pot industry poised to explode, Florida health officials have agreed to issue a seventh medical marijuana license.
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Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart, this week sent the bill (SB 140) to three committees.
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Florida’s 29 presidential electors cast their ballots Monday for Republican President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. The electors cast the ballots during a meeting in the Florida Senate chamber. The News Service will have a full report later Monday.
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Nationwide, the Electoral College is set to meet today, with Florida's 29 electors expected to cast votes for President-Elect Donald Trump.
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A fourth Florida organization has been allowed to distribute low-THC cannabis as medicine for a narrow list of medical conditions, less than a month before Amendment 2, which allows full legalization of medical marijuana becomes effective in the state of Florida.
Read More »In his annual “state of the university” address on Wednesday, Florida State University President John Thrasher reiterated his strong opposition to allowing guns on university and college campuses. As a member of the Florida Senate, Thrasher helped kill a bill in 2011 that would have allowed gun owners with concealed-weapons …
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Florida Senate Bill 82 came days after UF President Kent Fuchs joined hundreds of other university presidents in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a federal immigration policy that shields people who were brought to the United States as minors from deportation.
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