Hundreds of diverse crime survivors from across the Sunshine State traveled to Florida’s Capitol Tuesday to advocate for policy changes that make communities safer and meet the needs of crime victims. 

Passionate participants included Parkland and Pulse mass-shooting survivors. 

Former state House Speaker Dean Cannon is taking over as president and managing director of GrayRobinson at the start of September. 

GrayRobinson announced Cannon’s promotion from his current post as executive vice president and chair of the firm’s government affairs practice. He takes over from Mayanne Downs who will continue her work with the firm.  

It says something profoundly unsavory for Florida when the state Legislature needs to pass a law so women in prison can get something as basic and essential as a tampon. 

How about we make the first order of business for the new surgeon general explaining the function of a woman's anatomy to every official and jug-headed guard at every women's prison in the state. 

State health officials have dropped an appeal of a Tallahassee judge’s ruling and agreed to allow Florida’s largest medical marijuana operator to open more dispensaries than a state law allowed.

Quincy-based Trulieve challenged a limit on the number of storefronts that was included in a 2017 law aimed at carrying out a 2016 constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.