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 […]
U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist (D-13) leads all Florida Democrats in the 2022 gubernatorial primary in a recently released St. Pete Polls survey. In the poll, Crist came away with 55 percent of respondents, while likely candidate and Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried only drew 22 percent. Only 11 percent of voters are supporting other candidates […]
By Ryan Dailey, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — The Florida State University Board of Trustees on Monday selected Harvard University Vice Provost for Research Richard McCullough to succeed retiring FSU President John Thrasher. McCullough topped two other finalists who hold high-ranking posts at the University of North Carolina and Tulane University. As Florida […]