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Florida’s unemployment system is broken, but a new bill (HB 1463) sponsored by Rep. Chip LaMarca would overhaul the embattled process run by the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), updating the antiquated system to a cloud-based system and streamline claims and accountability.
The state of Florida, in particular, because of Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and his continuing meteoric rise on the national political stage. But while millions of Americans may agree with what Gov. DeSantis has been saying and doing in Florida, not everybody here is so fond of the governor, especially State Senator Shevrin Jones (D-35) .
Cuban and American relations have been quite tense historically, to say the least, but Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) is making a bipartisan push with Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) to focus on victims of Cuban socialism and the Castro regimes oppression decades-long human rights atrocities. Rep. Murphy's bill looks to help reunite Cuban exiles with their families.
Embattled Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie has been arrested on a perjury charge.
This morning, Florida State Senator Lauren Book (D), a vocal advocate for child protection and legislation benefitting Florida families, was elected Senate Democratic Leader-Designate.
With the upcoming 2022 midterm election, both Democrats and Republicans are looking to expand their ground, and one of the Senate seats that will likely face a challenge is Senator Marco Rubio’s (R) seat.
With Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict that could result in him facing 40 years in prison, the Broward Sheriff has released a statement, reminding officers “who wear a badge that we are not above the laws which we swore to protect.”
Florida’s legislative session is coming to a close, and while important issues like the medicinal marijuana THC capping bill and the controversial transgender athlete bill appear to be dead on arrival, all eyes were on the Derek Chauvin murder trial.
As the Derek Chauvin case concluded today, racial tensions were expected to ensure no matter the verdict. But we got a guilty verdict and the streets remained relatively calm. However, Florida remained the center of the political world, as State Senator Shevrin Jones (D-35) stayed very active in spectating the Chauvin trial and even called State […]
After jurors came back with guilty verdicts on all three criminal counts filed against former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for his role in the death of George Floyd, supporters of Floyd across the nation expressed their happiness and relief over what many believe was a just outcome. Chauvin is being held without bond until his sentencing and faces up...
After Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into SB 50 into law —the online tax sales tax collection measure — Democrats pounced, in particularly Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who cut a campaign video billing DeSantis as a tax-hiker who in the cover of night saddled Floridians with $1 billion dollars in new taxes.
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has been making headlines over his signing of HB 1, the GOP anti-rioting bill that garnered much controversy since its drafting stages. However, as he rides out this wave of controversy, Gov. DeSantis will be faced with the mounting stories covering his signing of a $1 billion tax on consumers that Democrats have been capitalizing on.
After initially being turned down and receiving bipartisan pushback, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D) is reintroducing the Green New Deal, calling this week "Green new Deal Week."
Florida’s 2021 Legislative session is coming to a close and bills have begun to arrive on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk for his signature.
Weeks after former President Donald Trump was de-platformed by social media companies who accused him of inciting the January 6th Capitol riot and deemed anything that he could say in the future as dangerous and inciteful, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican state legislature worked together on legislation to prevent Big Tech from censoring and de-platforming any future candidates...
The Florida Democrat has been a heavy critic of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), and Sabatini is now calling the lawmaker a “total fraud."
Governor Ron DeSantis has made good on his promise to sign into law the controversial anti-Rioting HB 1 legislation that he tasked Republican legislators to present to him after the 2020 Black Lives Matter/ ANTIFA-inspired rioting that caused $5 billion in damage and resulted in countless injuries and 30 deaths.
Members of the House Committee on Small Business directed a letter to Secretary Janet Yellen of the Treasury Department and Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, calling for an investigation into taxpayer dollars that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates received through Paycheck Protection Program loans.
