Nick Evans and Tom Flanigan talk about late-breaking developments in Florida’s struggle to redraw the state’s congressional districts.
Floridians could stop paying property taxes, if they’re willing pay more than double the current state sales tax. Regan McCarthy reports a group of lawmakers are looking into plans that could make serious changes to the state’s taxing system.
Officials in Arizona (today—Friday) were investigating a deadly campus shooting, a little more than a week after a mass shooting on an Oregon campus. With that as a backdrop, Florida lawmakers are still more determined than ever to loosen gun control laws. Jim Ash has more.
Florida lawmakers are still pushing a bill aimed at changing the state’s minimum mandatory sentencing rules. As Sascha Cordner reports, it comes on the heels of a recent decision by the state’s executive board requesting the early release of a Florida man who got a twenty-year prison sentence for firing a warning shot.
Florida lawmakers are bracing for budget holes despite figures showing the state could end up with another year of surplus. Lynn Hatter looks at the healthcare proposals making their way through the Florida legislature as lawmakers look for ways to cut health costs without accepting billions in federal dollars to expand Medicaid.
A group of University of South Florida students is gathering signatures to change the name of a building on campus that’s named after a former member of Congress who was also part of the Johns Committee, which persecuted gay and lesbian students and faculty in the 1950s and 60s. Seán Kinane from member station WMNF reports the USF administration is rejecting the students’ demands to rename the ROTC building on campus.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing new regulations for the Apalachicola-Chatahoochee-Flint River Basin, amid pushback from Florida lawmakers. 22 members of the Florida Congressional Delegation drafted a letter to the Corps, highlighting their concerns for the Apalachicola Bay. Kate Payne has more.