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Tallahassee, FL - While holiday travel is expected to decline this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Florida Highway Patrol is out in force this week on interstates and major highways, …
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News Service of Florida Staff
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11/25/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Despite some “small scale issues,” the League of Women Voters of Florida on Monday commended state and local elections officials for safely carrying out “a …
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NSF Staff
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11/24/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Florida hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have increased by 25 percent over the last two weeks and more than 35 percent in the last 30 days, according to a top Florida health care …
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News Service of Florida Staff
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11/11/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Brothers and sisters aren’t speaking to each other. Golf foursomes have been permanently scratched. Political activists have screamed themselves hoarse.
A bitterly …
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Dara Kam - News Service of Florida
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11/2/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Appearing at a Jacksonville charter school, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran on Tuesday touted their efforts to reopen classrooms this fall amid …
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News Service of Florida Staff
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10/21/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Campaigning Friday in Fort Myers, President Donald Trump pledged to deliver a COVID-19 vaccine to many senior citizens free of charge through a partnership with two major pharmacy …
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News Service of Florida Staff
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10/19/20
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Tallahassee, FL - A national COVID-19 “dashboard” released Wednesday by AARP shows that the death rate of Florida nursing-home residents over a recent four-week period exceeded the …
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Christine Sexton - News Service of Florida
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10/15/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Saying “this court cannot remedy what the state broke,” a federal judge on Friday reluctantly refused to give Floridians more time to register to vote after a state …
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Dara Kam - News Service of Florida
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10/9/20
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Tallahassee, FL - In a case that could have a dramatic impact on the state’s pot industry, the Florida Supreme Court made the unusual move Wednesday of hearing a second round of arguments …
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Dara Kam - News Service of Florida
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10/8/20
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Tallahassee, FL - State law enforcement officials continue to review Attorney General Ashley Moody’s request to investigate former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for helping Florida …
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News Service of Florida Staff
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10/7/20
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Tallahassee, FL - First-time unemployment claims in Florida dropped nearly 25 percent last week, as bars and craft breweries served drinks again and Gov. Ron DeSantis moved forward with the …
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Jim Turner - News Service of Florida
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10/1/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Pointing to a move by the federal government to halt evictions, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday let expire an executive order aimed at limiting evictions and …
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News Service of Florida Staff
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10/1/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Two state Republican leaders added their voices Monday in opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment that would gradually boost the minimum wage to $15 an hour in …
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Jim Turner - News Service of Florida
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9/29/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to prohibit local governments from being able to close restaurants and bars, as some locals did to slow the spread of COVID-19 earlier this …
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Jim Turner - News Services of Florida
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9/25/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran on Wednesday criticized “union bosses” and said Florida has been a model for reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, …
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Jim Saunders - News Service of Florida
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9/24/20
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Tallahassee, FL - With Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried calling for a coordinated response by statewide elected officials to the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday defended …
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Jim Turner - News Service of Florida
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9/23/20
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Tallahassee, FL - Florida continues to see a steady decline in first-time unemployment claims, even as several large hospitality and entertainment companies have extended and imposed large-scale …
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Jim Turner - News Service of Florida
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9/18/20
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Tallahassee, FL - In a legal fight that started after the 2018 mass shooting at a Parkland high school, attorneys for the state and the National Rifle Association this month detailed dueling …
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Jim Saunders - News Service of Florida
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9/16/20
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With little discussion, the Florida Public Service Commission on Tuesday approved a settlement about Gulf Power’s costs of restoring power and rebuilding damaged parts of the electric system after Hurricane Michael in 2018
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News Service of Florida Staff
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9/15/20
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A new Commonwealth Fund analysis ranks Florida’s health system among the worst in the nation, finding, among other things, that the state spends $19 a person on public health, or about 51 percent of the national average, and has more children without a “medical home” than any other state.
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Christine Sexton - News Service of Florida
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9/14/20
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