by Jim Turner - News Service of Florida | Feb 27, 2023
Florida lawmakers have filed over 3,100 budget requests, totaling nearly $6.3bn, for the 2023 legislative session. The requests include $800 million from House members for Southwest Florida, which suffered massive damage from Hurricane Ian. One representative has...
by Brian Burgess | Feb 24, 2023
Florida lawmakers are considering expanding school choice and access to education through taxpayer-funded school vouchers and Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). Critics of the proposal have raised concerns about the potential cost and elimination of current...
by News Service of Florida | Feb 22, 2023
A Florida House panel on Wednesday approved a bill that would make it riskier to use the state’s administrative court system to challenge changes to city and county development growth-management plans. The bill would allow the winning party in a challenge to...
by Andrew Powell - The Center Square | Feb 21, 2023
A new national report ranks Florida 23rd in the United States for combined sales and local taxes, with a sales tax rate of 6% and an average local sales tax of 1.02%. But while many states also have an income tax on top of state and local sales taxes, Florida does...
by Brian Burgess | Feb 19, 2023
In Florida, media outlets and other critics (read: Democrats) have long blamed Republican lawmakers in Tallahassee for the state’s ongoing affordable housing shortage, and in particular, they blame so-called “raids” of a Florida based program called...
by Brian Burgess | Feb 19, 2023
Former Sarasota County Commissioner Christian Ziegler won election as the new chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), succeeding outgoing Chairman Joe Gruters. Ziegler plans to expand the party’s efforts to battle at the local level, targeting school...
