Mary Ellen Klas
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As part of Gov. Ron DeSantis' proposed budget for the 2021-22 fiscal budget, he announced a $1 billion investment in projects that address the impacts of climate change.
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Former Florida Department of Health whistle-blower Rebekah Jones has been released on a $2,500 bond after turning herself into state police.
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Jones, who has appeared on numerous cable news shows defending herself, alleges in the new complaint that the basis of the search warrant used by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was “a sham” designed to punish her for speaking out against Gov. Ron DeSantis for ”refusing to falsify statistics on a ‘dashboard’ she had created for [the Department of Health].”
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Florida police did something rarely seen in the life of a pending investigation this week: They released the screenshot of an agent’s cell phone to show how many times police attempted to call Rebekah Jones, the former state data analyst turned whistle blower.
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A Sarasota lawyer turned down an appointment to the 12th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission after reviewing the search warrant affidavit used to seize communication devices from Rebekah Jones.
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The home of the former Department of Health data scientist who has been running an alternative web site to the state’s COVID dashboard was raided Monday morning by state police, according to a post she put on Twitter late in the day.
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And, whether Floridians know it or not, he is pursuing a policy that will allow the virus to spread freely in the state until most of the population becomes infected — or is vaccinated with a yet-to-be obtained vaccine — while attempting to protect those thought to be most vulnerable.
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Florida Republicans appeared to force Miami Democratic state Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez into a recount Tuesday and fended off two fierce challenges to their narrow majority in the Florida Senate as a bitterly fought and expensive election cycle came to an end.