by Capitolist Staff | Nov 24, 2025
The University of West Florida (UWF) Presidential Search Committee has named Interim President Manny Diaz Jr. as the sole finalist to become the institution’s seventh president. The decision, announced Friday, moves Diaz one step closer to a permanent appointment,...
by The Center Square | Nov 24, 2025
Eight plans to offer property tax relief in Florida have taken a step forward in the state legislature. All but one are constitutional amendments that would need 60% of voter approval to go into effect. They all cleared the House Select Committee on Property Taxes on...
by Capitolist Staff | Nov 23, 2025
Sen. Don Gaetz on Thursday filed legislation aimed at restructuring the funding and administrative framework of Florida’s school choice programs following a recent Auditor General report that identified significant tracking and accounting problems within the state’s...
by Edward Briggs | Nov 23, 2025
The United States has a long and proud history of invention, but we often struggle to fully put our innovations to work. We certainly know how to build and create technology, but it is another to deploy it broadly so that businesses, communities, and families truly...
by Brian Burgess | Nov 22, 2025
Hoo-boy. In more than a decade of covering Florida’s political scene, never have I ever opened a story with those two words. But here we are, all because Matthew Taylor, the almost-famous, almost-welder, almost-comedian, almost-county-commissioner, almost-governor,...
by Capitolist Staff | Nov 20, 2025
Sen. Corey Simon on Thursday filed a wide-ranging proposal aimed at reshaping economic development, infrastructure, health care, and education in rural counties across Florida ahead of the 2026 legislative session. The measure, Senate Bill 250, establishes new funding...
