New Florida law could lead to more puppy mills and more animal torture
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Find out which Florida lawmakers voted to make citizen ballot initiatives harder and send them an email
For years, Florida's Republican party has sought to raise the passing threshold for citizen-led ballot initiatives from 60% to 66%. In 2023, HJR 129 passed ...
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Manatees are Starving: How Did Florida Lawmakers Vote on Laws to Help Save Them?
The manatees' primary source of food is seagrass, which is being killed off by fertilizer runoff. How did the Florida Legislature respond this crisis? Use ...
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Gov DeSantis signs S.B. 170, the Sea Turtle Killer. Hold Your Lawmakers Accountable For Their Votes.
The new law puts major restrictions on the ordinances our locally elected governments can pass, including important sea turtle protections, and many endangered sea turtles ...
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Gainesville Is One Step Closer To Losing Control of its Utility
A bill to take over the Gainesville Regional Utility, a municipally owned utility, and replace its board with a governor-appointed board, advanced out of a ...
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The Next Disney-Style Takeover for DeSantis: The Gainesville Regional Utility
Just as the Florida Legislature advanced a law to claw back control over Disney's special taxing district, they advanced a separate bill to give Gov. ...
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The Playbook to Privatize G.R.U. and Raise Rates
Why the bill to take over Gainesville's publicly owned utility is part of a long playbook to privatize it and sell it to one of ...
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Victory! Governor DeSantis Vetoes SB 620
On Friday, June 24, Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed SB 620, formally named the Local Business Protection Act, but which critics dubbed the “Ending Local Freedoms ...
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