The state of Florida will no longer contract with the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The Coalition’s former president is under investigation over how she was able to pay herself 7.5 million dollars over a three-year period. Lynn Hatter has more.
As the end of the legislative session nears, leaders in the House and Senate still haven’t met to finalize the details of next year’s spending plan. Regan McCarthy reports passing a balanced budget is the one thing lawmakers are required to do each year.
A bill limiting a district school board member’s term is advancing to its last committee. Robbie Gaffney reports members can’t be reelected if they have served for 8-consecutive years.
Last session lawmakers passed a bill to make sure opioids weren’t the only alternative being offered to patients for pain medication. This year lawmakers were revisiting the issue in order to make an exception for end of life patients. Blaise Gainey has the details.
Five years ago Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment aimed at land conservation. But environmental groups argue lawmakers haven't provided enough funding, and as WMFE environmental reporter Amy Green explains the pace of land acquisitions hasn't changed either.
This April will mark ten years since the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven people and pouring nearly 3.2 million barrels of oil into the ocean. A new report from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences found the spill reached all the way to the fisheries in the Florida Keys. The impact was much larger than originally believed. Claire Paris is the senior author of the report and she spoke with Luis Hernandez on Sundial.
The Florida Legislature has two more weeks to move on the creation of a statewide resiliency task force. Ryan Dailey reports the group of agency heads and appointees would provide the state’s official estimates of sea level rise, if it gets the chance.