On Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that in March the state unemployment rate remained at 3.5 percent, the same as it was in February. The national unemployment rate stood at 3.8 percent in March.
DeSantis noted more than 200,000 private sector jobs had been created in Florida over the past year. He took over in January from Gov. Rick Scott.
Terrie Bates, director of Water Resources at the South Florida Water Management District and one of its most respected scientists, has resigned her position.
As hurricane-weary Northwest Floridians grow more impatient with the financial dickering of state and federal officials, a former lawmaker from the region helped call a disaster-relief audible Thursday.
University of Florida football legend Steve Spurrier, longtime Florida State University assistant football coach Mickey Andrews and Coastal Carolina University basketball coach Cliff Ellis stumped in the Capitol for disaster relief with Robert Trammell, a lobbyist and a former Panhandle lawmaker.
State health officials are preparing to revamp the application process for medical-marijuana businesses, with the hope of issuing up to seven new licenses before the end of the year, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office told The News Service of Florida on Thursday.
The state Office of Medical Marijuana Use is expected to withdraw a series of proposed rules, which were never finalized, and restart the process with a new set of proposed regulations as early as May.
U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, R-Fla., is drawing fire after naming the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s (DCCC) leadership team.
Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., the chairwoman of the DCCC, said that the caucus had elected five regional vice chairs, including Crist, to help the Democrats keep control of the U.S. House in 2020.
This week, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., one of the co-chairman of the Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus, continued his fight for support for tourism, including Brand USA.
Bilirakis held a round table event in Wesley Chapel on Thursday and he stressed the important role tourism plays to the Sunshine State’s economy.
A little more than a year ago, the idea of allowing armed teachers in classrooms nearly scuttled school-safety legislation hurriedly crafted in the wake of the horrific mass shooting at a Parkland high school that left 17 students and staff members dead.
But now, a sharply divided state Senate is prepared to sign off on another far-reaching school safety bill that includes a provision to allow classroom teachers to serve as armed school “guardians.”
Just weeks before another hurricane season, large numbers of Florida nursing homes and assisted living facilities in the storm-battered state continue to struggle to meet requirements that they have backup power generator to keep facilities cool.
State records show that 89 long-term care facilities have told Florida officials in the last month that they won’t have generators by June 1 --- which is when the six-month hurricane season kicks off. Some forecasters have predicted it could be a normal hurricane season resulting in as many as two to four major hurricanes.
