By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — With the theme “Never Tire,” Orlando Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings on Wednesday formally launched her campaign to try to unseat U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2022. The announcement was not a surprise: Demings last month said to “stay tuned” amid reports that she would […]
Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil updated the Leon County Commission (LCC) on several law enforcement issues at the Tuesday meeting. McNeil told the LCC that from January 2021 to May 2021 violent crime in Leon County is down by 33%, rape is down by 37%, and robberies have stayed about the same when compared to […]
Miami-based Royal Caribbean, one of America’s largest cruise lines, will resume operations in July and will not fight a state of Florida law that bans vaccine passports. Instead, the cruise vacation company recommends that its passengers are vaccinated against COVID-19. “Guests are strongly recommended to set sail fully vaccinated, if they are eligible,” the company said […]
BY Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — As federal stimulus checks gave Floridians more money to spend, the state’s April revenue collections topped an economists’ forecast by nearly 24 percent. The Legislature’s Office of Economic & Demographic Research on Friday reported April general-revenue collections came in $797.2 million above a projection for […]
If you get your news from a Gannett Corporation owned news source you did not read about Nikki Fried’s discovery of $350,000 in income she failed to report in 2017 and 2018 as required by law. Fried amended her financial disclosure forms three days before her gubernatorial campaign announcement, as first reported by Tallahassee Reports. […]
Days after Tallahassee Reports broke a story about Nikki Fried amending her financial disclosure forms ahead of her gubernatorial campaign announcement, an ethics complaint has been filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics. The complaint is focused on Fried’s failure to report lobbying income she received from a marijuana client in 2017 & 2018. Read […]
For the second time in less than two years Nikki Fried – the current Florida Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate – has amended her 2018 financial disclosure form filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics. The latest amendment, filed on May 28, 2021, comes just days before she officially announced she would be running for […]
By Ryan Dailey, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Speaking at a private school in Jacksonville on the first day of Pride Month, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a wide-ranging education bill that includes a ban on transgender females participating on girls’ and women’s high-school and college sports teams. The measure (SB 1028), […]
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, touting her campaign as “something new” and saying she will fight the “rigged system” in Tallahassee, formally entered the 2022 race for governor on Tuesday. Fried, an attorney and former medical-marijuana lobbyist who scored a narrow victory in 2018 to become […]
NOTE 06/01: No daily updates from 5/29-5/31. Numbers provided 6/1 are averaged to provide daily estimates. NOTE 01/01: There was no report from FDOH on 01/01. NOTE 12/26: There was no report from FDOH on 12/25. NOTE 11/27: There was no report from FDOH on 11/26. NOTE 10/11: There was no DOH COVID daily report […]