Don Gaetz won’t be University of West Florida’s next president. On Thursday, the Northwest Florida university went a different direction, and the board of trustees passed over Gaetz in favor of UWF’s provost, Martha Saunders by a vote of 9-4.
Siding with the Department of Environmental Protection on procedural grounds, an administrative law judge has rejected a series of challenges to controversial new state water-quality standards.
Judge Bram D.E. Canter on Tuesday issued an 11-page ruling that dismissed the challenges filed last month by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the city of Miami, Martin County and Florida Pulp and Paper Association Environmental Affairs, Inc.
The Florida Education Association will appeal lower court rulings on the constitutionality of the state’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program which gives vouchers to low-income students, the FEA announced Wednesday.
Two of Florida’s community colleges are among the ten finalists for the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, a national award for high achievement and performance in community colleges.
Looking to offer Florida’s citrus industry relief in the wake of citrus greening, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan’s, R-Fla., measure giving tax incentives to farmers who need to replace trees impacted by the disease passed a key committee on Wednesday and is now headed to the House floor.
From his perch as one of the co-chairs of the South Sudan Caucus, U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., is pushing an arms ban in that African country.
The two congressional representatives from Florida who lead the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee scored a win this week as the U.S. House passed a resolution backing a longterm Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on military assistance between the U.S. and Israeli governments.
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who chairs the subcommittee, was joined by her colleague U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, in launching the resolution back in May. Twenty other members of the Florida delegation also co-sponsored the proposal.
Gus Kein doesn’t live too far away from one of South Florida’s biggest gay neighborhoods, Wilton Manors, but his proximity to a place where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lifestyles are more common doesn’t mean people like him are immune to hate crimes.
The battle for an open Florida House seat is gaining national attention from the Republican Party.
With state Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, leaving the House due to term limits, the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), which defines itself as the “largest caucus of Republican state leaders in the country and the only national organization whose mission is to elect Republicans to multiple down-ballot, state-level offices,” is going to bat for Republican candidate John Couriel.
Coming off their worst harvest in five decades, citrus growers in Florida have fewer acres to work with, as they struggle to maintain the state's signature crop against an incurable bacterial disease.
The citrus industry lost 4 percent of its grove land, 21,275 acres, over the past year, according to a survey released Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
