Week two of the Florida Special session on the budget is over and lawmakers have still not passed a budget. WFSU's Tristan Wood spoke with Politico Florida's Gary Fineout and the Florida Phoenix's Christine Sexton about what's happening in Tallahassee, what's taking them so long, and how the process has grown more opaque in recent years.
Florida’s drug deaths were down last year, a decline that began in 2019.
Detractors of Florida’s new congressional maps say redrawn districts threaten to topple a part of the state constitution aimed in part at preventing partisan gerrymandering. Miami Gardens Democratic Senator Shevrin Jones argues that so-called “race neutral” map-drawing undermines meaningful representation for Black and Hispanic voters. He talked about it on the “Between the Lines with Dara Kam” podcast from State Affairs.
That was Democratic State Senator Shevrin Jones on the Between the Lines with Dara Kam podcast from State Affairs. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
The immigration detention center in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" is reportedly preparing to close next month. WGCU’s Jennifer Crawford talks with Elise Bennett, Florida Director of the Center for Biological Diversity, about the purported timeline.
The number of boats on Florida waters keeps going up. So do the number of boating accidents.
Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States with about eighty-five hundred miles of tidal shoreline. While a waterfront view seems idyllic, the reality is, communities are dealing with the pressures of rising sea levels. Global warming has elevated Florida's water line by eight inches since 1950. And it's expected to keep growing. For NPR’s Climate Solutions Week, we’re looking at a nature-based way of stabilizing the coast. It's called living shorelines. WUSF's Jessica Meszaros reports, public officials have been taking the lead on this initiative for about a decade.