Mitch Perry | Florida Phoenix

If a constitutional amendment to significantly reduce or eliminate property taxes were on the ballot, 65% would support that. Only 15% oppose it, with 20% unsure.

A bipartisan pair of state lawmakers spent 90 minutes Thursday hearing from health care professionals about what is wrong with the system in Florida and what might be done to change it.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Wednesday that concerns about “a lot of harms that women and often young girls are experiencing” when they access the abortion pill mifepristone through the mail is among the reasons why the state has asked to intervene in a federal lawsuit seeking to restrict availability of that abortion medication.

During his time in office, Gov. Ron DeSantis has been aggressive in vetoing appropriations in the state budget for LGBTQ programs. Cognizant of that fact, some Democratic legislators say, they’ve been able to continue support for those programs by omitting any direct references to the LGBTQ community in their appropriation proposals.

Following Wedneday’s decision by the Florida First District Court of Appeal striking the state’s ban on openly carrying firearms, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey says his deputies will no longer enforce the ban – even though the law hasn’t changed yet.

The NRA is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the ban on sales to individuals under 21.

Although the odds indicate regulators will approve the first black bear hunt in a decade in Florida, opponents will pull out all the rhetorical stops when the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) gathers this week in North Florida for a final vote.

A nonprofit smart growth advocacy organization, 1000 Friends of Florida, is the latest entity calling for the Florida Legislature to repeal portions of a new law designed to expedite post-disaster rebuilding.

With significant federal tax breaks for purchasing rooftop solar power, electric vehicles, and energy-efficient home improvements set to expire in September, solar power advocates gathered to urge those considering making such purchases to do so right now.

In its ruling Thursday, the court upheld a lower court’s ruling that the city had violated both its own charter and the Miami-Dade County Home Rule Charter when it voted last month to postpone the November 2025 mayoral and commission election.

‘We’ve been decimated,’ a longtime Florida tomato grower says about the industry in the Sunshine State.

The latest voter rolls in the county now show 464,370 registered Republicans, or 34% of voters, 440,790 Democrats, or 32.27%. Independent and third-party voters together number 460,783, or 33.7%. Those numbers come via Michael Pruser, the director of data science with Decision Desk HQ.