Elizabeth Maguire

Florida is moving to once again license naturopathic doctors, a move critics warn will permit the use of unproven and potentially dangerous treatments, but supporters say could help alleviate the state’s worsening doctor shortage and give patients a choice about their care.

Democrats and other critics warned it could strangle free speech, open the door to political abuse and fan Islamophobia.

The panel that runs public universities in Florida is set to meet Monday to approve a one-year ban on hiring new foreign faculty through the H1-B visa system — a move critics said could harm research and education in the state.

“I think it’s become a tradition,” she said, “people love coming out to experience downtown in a way that doesn’t happen every day of the year, and it’s a really nice weekend in the fall for people to come out with their families.”

Growing up in Gainesville’s Eastside and going to a Title I school where “a lot of my peers were victims of gun violence or perpetrators of it,” Tubbs’s personal experience inspired her to create social change.

University of Florida students who are studying from Jamaica or have families there are struggling to contact their loved ones after Hurricane Melissa brought catastrophic damage to the island last week.

Over the weekend, Ford’s family walked miles to find cell reception to call her. They described communities without water, electricity or phone service.

As both a lawmaker and pharmacist, Abbott brings a “different knowledge” to the legislature and the regulation side of healthcare, allowing him to “help the practice of pharmacy be in a better spot,” he says.

Prosecutors dropped the felony criminal charge of making a false report about the bomb and formally charged him with felony petit theft over the theft of the $5.97 in candy bars.

“When I flew over the scene, you could see where it initially crashed into the ground,” Kramer said, “it just blew up, like pieces were everywhere, and I didn’t see anybody.”