by News Service of Florida | Feb 4, 2025
Visit Florida President and CEO Dana Young said Monday her retirement will take effect Friday, two months after announcing she was stepping down after leading the tourism-marketing agency since 2019. “I really am retiring. I’m not taking another job,” Young told the...
by News Service of Florida | Feb 4, 2025
After spending a week castigating a legislative plan addressing illegal immigration, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday adopted a more conciliatory tone as he laid out his proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year. DeSantis has been locked in a fierce battle with House...
by News Service of Florida | Feb 3, 2025
Gov. Ron DeSantis late Sunday proposed a $115.6 billion budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year that calls for increasing pay for state law-enforcement officers and firefighters, eliminating a commercial-lease tax, and holding a new sales-tax “holiday” on guns and...
by News Service of Florida | Feb 3, 2025
Visit Florida is again hoping a British television personality will help its efforts to return to pre-pandemic levels of tourism from overseas. Last year, the state tourism-marketing agency worked with Ipswich farmer and television personality Jimmy Doherty on a...
by News Service of Florida | Jan 31, 2025
Upping the ante in an increasingly acrimonious feud with House and Senate Republican leaders over immigration issues, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday vowed to channel “huge sums” of money to candidates he backs in next year’s GOP gubernatorial and legislative primary...
