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LOCAL NEWS
Today, the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency (BIA) will vote on a staff recommendation to advertise and award construction services for the $16 million Market District Placemaking Project.
The BIA will also consider a staff recommendation to approve the project scope for the $18 million Northeast Park and to authorize Blueprint to advertise and award a contract for construction of the Northeast Park.
The Leon County School District is reviewing a book on female tennis legend Billie Jean King due to a complaint being filed by a parent of an elementary school student calling it not “age appropriate.” LCS said Superintendent Rocky Hanna is set to meet with the parent who complained this week. The content in question was a portion of the book that said King “married her wife.”
On May 8th, the Children’s Services Council (CSC) Executive Committee discussed a proposed travel policy among other issues. Get the details.
FLORIDA NEWS
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has set the execution date for a man who was convicted of killing and sexually assaulting a teenage girl and one other woman in South Florida in 1984. The execution will take place on June 15 at 6:00 p.m. and will be the fourth execution in the last year by the state.
Gov. DeSantis also signed an immigration crackdown bill that will increase penalties on those aiding in bringing illegal aliens into Florida. If caught, bringing an illegal into Florida brings a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine, with additional penalties for multiple offenses. It also provides $12 million for his program to transport undocumented immigrants from anywhere in the country to another location. The Hispanic Leadership Fund, a free-market economic group, condemned the new law.
On the upcoming general election ballot, Floridians will be voting on a constitutional amendment enshrining the right to hunt and fish in Florida. The Florida Legislature passed a resolution putting the measure on the ballot. Vermont was the first state to constitutionalize such a right in 1777. Since then, 22 states have adopted constitutional amendments creating a right to hunt and fish beginning with Alabama in 1996.
SPORTS NEWS
Florida State women’s golf finished in fifth place at the NCAA Raleigh Regional Championship at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course and has advanced to the NCAA Championship Finals for a school-record seventh consecutive year.
TALLAHASSEE REPORTS
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Blueprint is out of control. Spending like drunken sailors on unnecessary roads but want to kill our minor little park!
I get it.
Send me $16,000,000 and a new Rolls Royce and I’ll send you your statement in 25 words or less!
After all, turnabout is fair play!
$16 million Market District Placemaking Project? What do that Money cover. If that includes that Road being built, how much less if you get rid of the Round-Abouts and put in 4 Way Stops?
Even though I do not Hunt or Fish, I will be happy to Vote for a constitutional amendment enshrining the right to hunt and fish in Florida. I am shock it wasn’t already done Decades ago.
It also provides $12 million for his program to transport undocumented immigrants from anywhere in the country to another location.
How about we just stick with the undocumented immigrants in Florida and let the other States pay to deal with the ones in their State. Just let the other 49 States that if they send any to Florida, you will send them right back and SUE that State.
$16M for Market Street ‘Placemaking’…$18M for NE Park. Need to find out which COT officials, elected or otherwise, have had a recent significant bank account balance rise
Almost 40 years on Deathrow. That is the problem Desantis and his Super Majority should have solved. Texas averages about 11 years between conviction and execution.