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Gun-safety groups call on Ben Albritton to block bill lowering age to buy long guns to 18 floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/19/g...
Gun-safety groups call on Ben Albritton to block bill lowering age to buy long guns to 18 • Florida Phoenix
A dozen gun-violence prevention groups are calling upon Florida Senate President Ben Albritton to once again reject a proposal from the Florida House to lower the age to purchase a long gun from 21 to...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Gun-safety groups call on Ben Albritton to block bill lowering age to buy long guns to 18 floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/19/g...
Donalds campaign says it’s raised more than $40 million in race for governor floridaphoenix.com/briefs/donal...
Donalds campaign says it's raised more than $40 million in race for governor • Florida Phoenix
Can anyone stop Byron Donalds from becoming Florida’s next governor? There’s still more than 10 months until Floridians elect a successor to Ron DeSantis, but there’s no question the Naples Republican...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Donalds campaign says it’s raised more than $40 million in race for governor floridaphoenix.com/briefs/donal...
Nikki Fried slams proposal to allow the state to remove locally elected officials floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/18/n...
Nikki Fried slams proposal to allow the state to remove locally elected officials • Florida Phoenix
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried is blasting proposed legislation introduced this week by Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Blaise Ingoglia aimed at increasing local government spending ...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Nikki Fried slams proposal to allow the state to remove locally elected officials floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/18/n...
Nikki Fried slams proposal to allow the state to remove locally elected officials floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/18/n...
Nikki Fried slams proposal to allow the state to remove locally elected officials • Florida Phoenix
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried is blasting proposed legislation introduced this week by Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Blaise Ingoglia aimed at increasing local government spending ...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Nikki Fried slams proposal to allow the state to remove locally elected officials floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/18/n...
CFO Ingoglia unveils legislation to make local officals more accountable floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/17/c...
CFO Ingoglia unveils legislation to make local officals more accountable • Florida Phoenix
TAMPA — Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Blaise Ingoglia previewed legislation Wednesday meant to increase spending accountability and transparency for local government officials, with penalties ...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
CFO Ingoglia unveils legislation to make local officals more accountable floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/17/c...
Paul Renner wants GOP voters to compare his record with Byron Donalds’ floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/17/p...
Paul Renner wants GOP voters to compare his record with Byron Donalds' • Florida Phoenix
CLEARWATER — GOP gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner is proud of his conservative record while serving in office and says Republican voters should compare it to Byron Donalds’ over the past nine years...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Paul Renner wants GOP voters to compare his record with Byron Donalds’ floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/17/p...
CAIR-Florida files lawsuit against DeSantis after ‘terrorist’ designation floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/16/c...
CAIR-Florida files lawsuit against DeSantis after 'terrorist' designation • Florida Phoenix
TAMPA — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil-rights organization, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order issu...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
CAIR-Florida files lawsuit against DeSantis after ‘terrorist’ designation floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/16/c...
Democrat Angie Nixon is still ‘strongly considering’ a run for U.S. Senate floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/15/d...
Democrat Angie Nixon is still ‘strongly considering’ a run for U.S. Senate • Florida Phoenix
ST PETERSBURG — Jacksonville Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon brought her “Awake the State” listening tour to the Tampa Bay area this weekend as she gears up to run for another elected position — pos...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Democrat Angie Nixon is still ‘strongly considering’ a run for U.S. Senate floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/15/d...
Attorney: It’s a ‘judgement call’ whether Florida redraws its congressional map floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/10/a...
Attorney: It's a 'judgement call' whether Florida redraws its congressional map • Florida Phoenix
A pending ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the 1965 Voting Rights Act could trigger the Florida Legislature to conduct a mid-decade congressional redistricting effort, but it won’t require t...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Attorney: It’s a ‘judgement call’ whether Florida redraws its congressional map floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/10/a...
Nikki Fried: ‘The pendulum is swinging’ towards Democrats’ after victory in Miami election floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/10/n...
Nikki Fried: ‘The pendulum is swinging' towards Democrats’ after victory in Miami election • Florida Phoenix
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried took a victory lap Wednesday, fresh off seeing Miami voters elect former Miami-Dade County commissioner Eileen Higgins as mayor, the first time a registered ...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Nikki Fried: ‘The pendulum is swinging’ towards Democrats’ after victory in Miami election floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/10/n...
Proposal to reform how the Florida PSC sets energy rates advances in Senate floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/09/p...
Proposal to reform how the Florida PSC sets energy rates advances in Senate • Florida Phoenix
A bill directing the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) to justify rate increases for investor-owned utilities and consider affordability advanced in its first committee stop Tuesday ahead of the...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Proposal to reform how the Florida PSC sets energy rates advances in Senate floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/09/p...
Energy officials tell Florida lawmakers they’re aware of the unpopularity of AI data centers floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/09/e...
Energy officials tell Florida lawmakers they’re aware of the unpopularity of AI data centers • Florida Phoenix
How unpopular are new data centers being designed to help train and run artificial intelligence models around the United States? On Monday, six Florida organizations signed a letter sent to Congress b...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Energy officials tell Florida lawmakers they’re aware of the unpopularity of AI data centers floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/09/e...
How much sense would a David Jolly-Gwen Graham ticket make for governor? floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/08/h...
How much sense would a David Jolly-Gwen Graham ticket make for governor? • Florida Phoenix
ST PETERSBURG — Could Gwen Graham add heft to David Jolly’s candidacy for governor by becoming his running mate in Florida next year? That question occurred when the former Tallahassee-based U.S. repr...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
How much sense would a David Jolly-Gwen Graham ticket make for governor? floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/08/h...
Report alleges ‘culture of abuse and violence’ at Panhandle prison floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/07/r...
Report alleges 'culture of abuse and violence' at Panhandle prison • Florida Phoenix
A nearly two-year investigation into a Panhandle state prison has concluded that overcrowding and understaffing has resulted in a high concentration of complaints by inmates about excessive force and ...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Report alleges ‘culture of abuse and violence’ at Panhandle prison floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/07/r...
FL House chair says it would be ‘irresponsible’ to delay congressional redistricting effort until after regular legislative session floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/04/f...
FL House redistricting chair says it would be ‘irresponsible’ to wait until after session • Florida Phoenix
The Florida House held its first committee meeting on the contentious issue of an unprecedented mid-decade congressional redistricting effort on Thursday. It lasted less than 25 minutes and featured n...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
FL House chair says it would be ‘irresponsible’ to delay congressional redistricting effort until after regular legislative session floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/04/f...
DeSantis says Florida ‘will be forced’ to redistrict because of pending U.S. Supreme Court decision floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/03/d...
DeSantis says Florida 'will be forced' to redistrict because of pending U.S. Supreme Court decision • Florida Phoenix
TAMPA — Democrats and voting rights advocates this week voiced vehement opposition to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ call to redistrict Florida’s congressional map in a special session next year, calling it an “i...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
DeSantis says Florida ‘will be forced’ to redistrict because of pending U.S. Supreme Court decision floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/03/d...
GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback campaigns on the message that ‘Florida is our home’ floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/03/g...
GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback campaigns on the message that 'Florida is our home' • Florida Phoenix
TAMPA – Florida has been one of the fastest growing states in the country over the past five years. Now the newest entrant to the 2026 Republican gubernatorial race says it’s time to focus less on bri...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback campaigns on the message that ‘Florida is our home’ floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/03/g...
Florida Democratic House Leader calls plan to redrawn congressional map ‘illegal’ floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/01/f...
Florida Democratic House Leader calls plan to redrawn congressional map ‘illegal’ • Florida Phoenix
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented plan to redraw state congressional maps to preserve the GOP’s narrow majority in the House ahead of the 2026 election has hit some bumps, but Republicans appear ...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Florida Democratic House Leader calls plan to redrawn congressional map ‘illegal’ floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/01/f...
Campbell’s says it uses ‘100% real chicken’ after AG Uthmeier moves to investigate floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/25/c...
Campbell's says it uses '100% real chicken' after AG Uthmeier moves to investigate • Florida Phoenix
A day after Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said that his office is investigating allegations that the Campbell’s Soup Co. uses bioengineered meat in their soups, the company is strongly denyi...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Campbell’s says it uses ‘100% real chicken’ after AG Uthmeier moves to investigate floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/25/c...
Florida bear hunt to take place next month after judge rejects injunction floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/24/f...
Florida bear hunt to take place next month after judge rejects injunction • Florida Phoenix
Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade will take place as scheduled next month after a state judge on Monday denied a motion by a conservation group to stop it from taking place. Leon County Circuit Co...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Florida bear hunt to take place next month after judge rejects injunction floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/24/f...
County leaders get candid in discussing getting ‘DOGEd’ by CFO’s office floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/23/c...
County leaders get candid in discussing getting ‘DOGEd' by CFO’s office • Florida Phoenix
TAMPA — Two longtime former state lawmakers who now serve in local government don’t think much of the audits of their counties’ spending conducted by Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia’s ...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
County leaders get candid in discussing getting ‘DOGEd’ by CFO’s office floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/23/c...
Paul Renner wants the Legislature to roll back property taxes during 2026 session floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/20/p...
Paul Renner wants the Legislature to roll back property taxes during 2026 session • Florida Phoenix
TAMPA — Saying Floridians need property tax relief now, former Florida House Speaker and 2026 Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner is calling for the Legislature to reduce the ad valorem tax...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Paul Renner wants the Legislature to roll back property taxes during 2026 session floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/20/p...
PSC approves contentious $7 billion rate hike for Florida Power & Light customers floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/20/p...
PSC approves contentious $7 billion rate hike for Florida Power & Light customers • Florida Phoenix
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a four-year settlement with Florida Power & Light (FPL) Thursday for about $6.9 billion, which opponents claim is the largest rate hike in U.S. his...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
PSC approves contentious $7 billion rate hike for Florida Power & Light customers floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/20/p...
Florida election supervisors once again ask lawmakers to make it easier to vote by mail floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/19/f...
Florida election supervisors once again ask lawmakers to make it easier to vote by mail • Florida Phoenix
Florida election supervisors are again asking state lawmakers to change state law to make it easier for Floridians to vote by mail, but whether the GOP-controlled Legislature will act on the request i...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Florida election supervisors once again ask lawmakers to make it easier to vote by mail floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/19/f...
Seven Florida cities receive perfect scores on LGBTQ inclusive polices and services for equality floridaphoenix.com/briefs/seven...
Seven Florida cities receive perfect scores on LGBTQ inclusive polices and services for equality • Florida Phoenix
The Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights group in the nation, has released its annual report evaluating cities across the country on how inclusive their municipal laws, polici...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Seven Florida cities receive perfect scores on LGBTQ inclusive polices and services for equality floridaphoenix.com/briefs/seven...