by News Service of Florida | Jan 22, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — Former President Donald Trump’s administration gave Florida’s health-care system one last parting gift before he left office Wednesday to return to his adopted home state. The Trump administration last week agreed to extend a “waiver” for Florida’s...
by News Service of Florida | Jan 22, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — Businesses will remain open for the economic well-being of the state even as COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Florida, the head of a Senate select committee on the pandemic said Thursday. And if similar pandemics occur in the future, the state...
by News Service of Florida | Jan 21, 2021
How nonprofit organizations and quasi-public entities use state dollars, a hot topic during the 2020 legislative session, will continue to be debated by lawmakers in the upcoming 2021 session. The House State Affairs Committee has set aside an hour Tuesday to discuss...
by News Service of Florida | Jan 20, 2021
A Senate panel next week will consider a controversial proposal that would require state colleges and universities to conduct annual assessments of “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” at the institutions. The Senate Education Committee on Tuesday is...
by News Service of Florida | Jan 19, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — Pointing in part to “reprehensible” conduct, a federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a $20.7 million punitive-damages award against Philip Morris USA in a Florida case filed by a woman who first tried cigarettes at age 13 and later suffered from a...