Joint Legislative Budget Commission

A legislative budget panel this week gave Gov. Ron DeSantis millions more dollars to pump into storm recovery projects, two weeks after category 4 Hurricane Ian landed in Southwest Florida and crossed the state. Ian landed nearly 4 years after category 5 Michael hit the Panhandle, where recovery continues.

The Joint Legislative Budget Commission will hold an emergency meeting next week to release an additional $360 million into the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund, which was established this year with $500 million. Most of the initial funding has already been allocated for Ian recovery efforts.

By most economic measures, the state of Florida isn’t expected to return to normal for at least another couple of years following the Great Recession.…

It could take weeks before a Florida appeals court decides whether to allow the Florida Department of Corrections to move forward with privatizing the…

A three-judge panel heard arguments Tuesday in a legal dispute between the Florida Department of Corrections and its prison health care workers who fear…

****UPDATE: Judge has Ruled. Read Story HERE****The jobs of about the three-thousand correctional employees’ jobs hang in the balance as a Leon Circuit…

A Leon Circuit Judge is now set to decide on a case regarding the privatization of health care services in Florida’s prison system. The Judge says he…

A legal dispute over the privatization of health care services in Florida’s prisons is far from over. A Leon Circuit Judge says he does not have all the…

The Florida Department of Corrections is still engaged in a legal dispute over whether it can privatize the state’s inmate health care services, after a…

About 3,000 employees could soon be out of a job after the Florida Department of Corrections recently received the funds to privatize its inmate health…