by Caden DeLisa | Jan 11, 2022
Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson signaled the start of the 2022 Legislative Session on Tuesday morning with his opening day address where he highlighted political ambitions that largely mirrored those of Governor Ron DeSantis. Simpson’s ‘to-do list’...
by Dara Kam - News Service of Florida | Dec 23, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday tapped Department of Business and Professional Regulation Secretary Julie Brown to lead a newly created commission that will oversee gambling in Florida and appointed a Tampa lawyer to replace Brown as head of the...
by Caden DeLisa | Dec 16, 2021
The state of Florida deployed a nine-person All-Hazards Incident Management Team comprised of members from the Florida Department of Emergency Management (FDEM) to Kentucky Wednesday night in order to assist with tornado outbreak response. Deployed for an...
by Caden DeLisa | Dec 9, 2021
Governor Ron DeSantis released his 2022-23 fiscal year budget proposal on Thursday, totaling $99.7 billion, with total reserves exceeding $15 billion. Entitled the ‘Freedom First Budget,’ it focuses largely on education, environmental resources, and law...
by Caden DeLisa | Dec 8, 2021
Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott wrote to Michael Connor, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, urging the allocation of $1.5 billion in order to ensure proposed and ongoing environmental projects in Florida are undertaken and completed. The...
by Caden DeLisa | Dec 7, 2021
Speaking in Oldsmar on Tuesday afternoon, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the first-ever statewide flooding resilience plan that would allocate over $200 million of state dollars towards rising sea levels and flood-susceptible regions in the state. DeSantis...
