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...
by Dara Kam - News Service of Florida | Feb 15, 2023
Governor Ron DeSantis suspended State Prosecutor Andrew Warren in August, alleging “incompetence and willful defiance of his duties” after he pledged not to enforce Florida abortion law. Warren will appeal a federal judge’s opinion that the...
by Brian Burgess | Feb 12, 2023
A couple weeks ago in this very column, we touched on the alleged plight of Florida school teachers, whom, according to state and national news outlets, are now living in abject fear of being thrown in jail if they don’t strip their bookshelves bare, removing...
