by Guest Contributor | Aug 18, 2021
(The Center Square) – With the number of existing homes being listed for sale increasing, Florida’s sellers’ market that spurred a 24.3% spike in single-family home costs over the last year could simmer down in coming months, said Florida Realtors Chief Economist Brad...
by John Haughey - The Center Square | Aug 17, 2021
(The Center Square) – More than 300,000 full-time students and 60,000 faculty and staff are returning to Florida’s 12 public universities for fall semester over the next week as “normal, pre-pandemic operations” resume with in-person classes and campus events...
by John Haughey - The Center Square | Aug 16, 2021
(The Center Square) – The Florida Department of Education has scheduled an emergency meeting of the State Board of Education for Tuesday to consider funding cuts tor two school districts that have rebuffed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order allowing parents to ignore...
by John Haughey - The Center Square | Aug 13, 2021
(The Center Square) – Hospitals in some areas of Florida are above 90% capacity with 15,358 patients hospitalized Thursday with COVID-19 symptoms, nearly 300 more than Wednesday, and 3,200 occupying half the Sunshine State’s intensive care unit beds. In response,...
by John Haughey - The Center Square | Aug 2, 2021
(The Center Square) – The Florida Lottery has recorded double-digit increases in sales and revenues since June 2020 and that trend is not slackening – May’s state lottery sales were up by 23%, or $1.52 billion, compared to May 2020. As a result, for the first time in...
