State Politics
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‘Catastrophically dysfunctional’ insurance market due to Rick Scott’s ‘sweetheart deal’ with insurer, says Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Mucarsel-Powell, who is running to unseat Sen. Scott in November, is also calling him out for vetoing safeguards on the insurance industry and refusing to recognize the growing threat of climate change.
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Group behind Amendment 4 sues DeSantis administration over threats to TV stations
Citing First Amendment rights, the campaign seeks to prevent the state from continuing to “coerce, threaten, or intimate” repercussions to broadcasters airing the ads.
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Here’s where Floridians can begin early voting next week
With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, counties across the Sunshine State are opening early voting polling sites.
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DeSantis administration ramps up efforts to defeat Amendment 4 as poll shows widespread support for it
Proponents of the amendment to enshrine abortion in the state Constitution say the report – which does not provide evidence for the allegations – is “nothing more than dishonest distractions and desperate attempts to silence voters.”
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After Hurricanes Helene and Milton, DeSantis continues to deny climate change
The Republican governor likened global warming to debunked theories spread across social media that claim the government can send hurricanes to targeted locations.
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One day before Hurricane Helene, these Florida Congress members voted against funding FEMA
In response, Florida congressman Maxwell Frost and more than 40 of Democrats nationwide are calling for House Speaker Mike Johnson to hold a vote on additional funding for FEMA and small businesses.
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Opinion: Next year, your closest abortion clinic could be abroad
Americans could be forced to travel across not state lines, but international boundaries, in order to get an abortion. And even more women may be forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, says the president of EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics.
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US judge rejects emergency litigation to reopen voter registration
The Florida chapters of the League of Women Voters and the NAACP wanted the court to order Gov. Ron DeSantis to reopen the voter registration process for at least 10 more days due to the imminent arrival of Hurricane Milton. On Wednesday a federal judge refused to extend the deadline.
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Hurricane Milton plows across Florida, pounding cities and whipping up tornadoes. At least 4 dead.
The Category 3 storm knocked out power to more than 3 million customers and whipped up a barrage of tornadoes, causing at least four deaths and compounding the misery wrought by Hurricane Helene.
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Language barriers and lack of money is a matter of life and death with Milton approaching Florida
For the Spanish speakers and a smaller number of African refugees, new lives in the US were already a daily struggle because of the language barrier and lack of resources. Milton has turned those obstacles into a matter of life and death.
