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The company is pushing for passage of a pair of bills filed in the Florida House and Senate that would boost safety and crack down on youth vaping.

Last week, a narrow ruling by a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a temporary setback to a Florida law attempting to restrict land purchases in Florida by Chinese foreign nationals. The law, designed to prevent agents of the Chinese government from acquiring land in the Sunshine State, seeks to prevent a more sinister threat

With billions on the line and the healthcare of millions in question, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration must find ways to hold Medicaid providers accountable.

A measles outbreak in one of Florida’s largest public school systems underscores the need for better indoor air quality monitoring in aging public school buildings.

Despite conservative frustration with heavy-handed content moderation by big social media companies, Republicans must come up with better solutions than government oversight

The Florida Supreme Court is expected to spark a decision this month on ballot language that could light up the opportunity for voters to decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana. How many hits from the metaphor bong can I weave into this analysis piece to illustrate that opponents may be on the verge of getting caught in a cloud of unpreparedness? Inhale the insights as we dive in.

Wow, you really have to hand it to the public relations firm helping Brightline spin the media. Four days ago, a story appeared in an obscure South Florida blog claiming that Brightline can’t keep up with demand. As a longtime Brightline doubter, that caught my eye, so I clicked through the abbreviated headline to see what I was missing, and it jumped right off the page: Brightline can’t keep up with demand…on some routes. Imagine my surprise, then, when at nearly the same time, Bloomberg News published a seemingly opposite and, to my skeptical media eye, far more credible story about what’s really going on at Brightline: Florida High-Speed Rail Cuts 2024 Ridership Forecast Again.

Not that we needed any further reminders that 2024 is an election year, but Republican U.S. Representative Brian Mast is doing his part, just in case. Over the last week or so, the South Florida Congressman has gone on a bit of a rampage accusing the federal government – and by extension, the Biden Administration – of being the biggest polluter of (his) community. And of course the local media is all too happy to carry his water for him.

A new national poll of cannabis users contained some surprising results with particular ramifications in Florida, where a November ballot referendum will help shape the outcome of the presidential election. The poll found that a notable number of cannabis users who might otherwise lean Democrat would surprisingly break for former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden in a direct matchup.

The study was shared by Smart and Safe Florida, the group behind Amendment 3 which aims to legalize recreational use of marijuana in Florida. The study found that, contrary to concerns, legalized recreational marijuana leads to a better-regulated marketplace that reduces substance abuse. According to a study recently published in the Journal of the American…