Steve Bousquet
Steve Bousquet has covered state government and politics for three decades at the Sun Sentinel, Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald. He was the Times' Tallahassee bureau chief from 2005 to 2018 and has also covered city and county politics in Broward County. He has a master's degree in U.S. history from Florida State.
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Fresh off its success in Georgia, a conservative think tank aligned with former President Donald Trump is now busy trying to change Florida’s election laws. The Heritage Foundation is pushing what it calls “best practices” for the next statewide vote in 2022. -
Tensions over changes to election laws escalated in the Capitol Monday as Republicans advanced major revisions to voting by mail and counting ballots. As Steve Bousquet reports, those changes drew sharp criticism from Democrats and election supervisors as well. -
Grass-roots advocacy has gone virtual in Tallahassee because of the pandemic. An effort is underway by one of Florida's largest counties to connect with the Florida Capitol under these challenging conditions. -
House Democrats are pushing what they call meaningful COVID relief and a solid plan for the next pandemic. Their 69-page proposal is largely the work of a young freshman, Representative Andrew Learned, a military officer and father of twins who runs a tutoring center near Tampa. -
The Florida legislative session began Tuesday in a largely-deserted state Capitol amid unprecedented restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, wants to change the law to require every voter to ask for a mail ballot in every calendar year there’s an election. -
Dozens of election law changes will be on the table when the Florida legislative session opens in a few weeks. -
Since the day Gov. Ron DeSantis took office more than two years ago, Shane Strum has been in charge of day to day operations in the Governor's Office as his chief of staff. Now Strum is a finalist for a lucrative job in South Florida. -
For much of the past year, state transportation officials heard strong opposition to plans for three major new toll roads in Florida. But the controversial projects aren’t dead. They were back before the Legislature just last week. -
State legislators were back at the Capitol this week for substantive work for the first time since the pandemic began last March. The medical emergency has transformed the seat of state government.
