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Editorial: Florida's redistricting maps are all right; your ability to vote is not

There is mixed news from Tallahassee about the most important American principle: the right to vote. Redistricting is going a bit better than usual. Voting rights are going backward.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: On DeSantis’ warpath to the White House, Black Floridians are the targets

During the 2018 gubernatorial race, then-candidate Ron DeSantis told Fox News Floridians shouldn’t “monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda” and electing Black Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum. It’s hard to believe the Ivy League-educated DeSantis didn’t understand the racially charged context of his statement, but, faced with…

Miami Herald

Florida governor: school districts that defied no-mask mandate to lose $200m

Ron DeSantis is backing a bill that would strip education funding from Democratic counties that retained Covid precautions

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These Democrats want to take on Ron DeSantis. Each has pluses, minuses

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Three Democrats — Charlie Crist, Nikki Fried and Annette Taddeo — are vigorously competing for what in many ways is an unenviable job: running as the Democratic nominee against Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.

Tribune News Service

Lawmaker sponsoring DeSantis’ immigration bill says intent is not to target children

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In recent months, Gov. Ron DeSantis has directed state regulators to crack down on shelters that house unaccompanied minors in Florida and asked the Legislature to bar state contracts with companies that transport migrants, including children, into the state on behalf of the federal government.

Miami Herald

Republicans who opposed racial justice protests hope truckers ‘clog up’ US cities

Lawmakers including Rand Paul and Ron DeSantis say they would back disruption of a Canadian-style trucker convoy

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Florida Senate passes budget that wouldn't punish schools

Let the Florida budget negotiations begin

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Migrant minors dispute pits Florida against Catholic Church

The debate over whether to deter or accommodate unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has pitted Florida’s Catholic governor against the state’s highest-ranking Roman Catholic

The Independent UK

DeSantis now supports taking $200 million from schools that mandated masks

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis now supports a plan to withhold $200 million in funding from 12 school districts that mandated masks because of the pandemic, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Orlando Sentinel

DeSantis now supports taking $200 million from schools that mandated masks

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis now supports a plan to withhold $200 million in funding from 12 school districts that mandated masks because of the pandemic, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Orlando Sentinel

Poll: DeSantis leads Democratic rivals for Fla. governor, with Crist on top in primary

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis holds sizable advantages over his potential Democratic opponents in this year’s race for governor, a poll released Tuesday shows.

Orlando Sentinel

Los medicamentos COVID que salvan vidas pueden ser difíciles de conseguir

Apartándose de la práctica habitual, los gobiernos federal y estatal están repartiendo los escasos fármacos terapéuticos que tratan el COVID-19, decidiendo dónde irán y en qué cantidades.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis rebukes proposed $200 million cuts for school districts that mandated masks

MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday rebuked a proposal to take away $200 million from a dozen school districts that implemented strict mask mandates last year in defiance of his administration.

Miami Herald

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vows veto of Congress maps; House seeks to break up Murphy and Demings seats

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday threatened to veto any congressional map coming out of the Legislature that doesn’t eliminate a Black district in North Florida.

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When talking about COVID-19, DeSantis leaves out key facts, experts say

ORLANDO, Fla. — Speaking in Panama City on Jan. 13, Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters, “clearly the vax has not stopped people from being infected with omicron. That is just clear as day.”

Tribune News Service

Lifesaving COVID medications can be hard to come by

In a departure from usual practice, federal and state governments are handing out the scarce therapeutic drugs that treat COVID-19, deciding where they will go and in what amounts.

Miami Herald

DeSantis blasts Florida Senate’s attack on Everglades funding

With three short sentences, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday delivered a public rebuke to a Senate budget proposal to change the way state agencies advocate for federal Everglades policy and affect the way state dollars are released for restoration projects and accused legislators of leaving his agencies “in the dark.”

Orlando Sentinel

Florida Supreme Court rejects DeSantis request for redistricting opinion

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request for an advisory opinion involving his proposed congressional map that would eliminate a Black American district in North Florida.

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Salon

Ron DeSantis likes to call things "woke"

“At this hit rate, Ron DeSantis will have trouble defeating wokeness. To him, it seems to be nearly everything"

The Independent UK

Florida high court refuses DeSantis request on redistricting

The Florida Supreme Court is telling Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis it will not answer his question on whether a Black congressman’s district is unconstitutional

Miami Herald

Editorial: DeSantis defends an anti-immigrant stance rooted in cruelty

Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Miami’s American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora and defended his plan to crack down on federally funded Florida shelters for unaccompanied minors.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Is open government still the law in Florida?

The Florida Department of Health undermined the fight against COVID-19 by halting detailed reports on the pandemic last June. That was strike one. Strike two is the department’s effort to scuttle a lawsuit that seeks to hold the state accountable for making that poor decision. It’s another reminder of where…

Tribune News Service

Florida State House leaders back $200 million punishment against schools that required masks

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — South Florida and Orlando school districts say they were trying to keep students and their families safe when they required students to wear masks on campus last year.

The Independent UK

GOP scrutiny of Black districts may deepen after court move

Civil rights activists worry that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling could embolden Republicans to take aim at splitting majority-Black districts and ultimately reduce Black voters’ influence on Capitol Hill

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Partisanship on the Supreme Court is damaging. A code of conduct could help

Supreme Court justices adamantly declare they are above the grubby machinations of partisan politics. But that narrative is contradicted by events like last week’s speech by Justice Neil Gorsuch to a closed-door gathering of the conservative Federalist Society that also included such Republican luminaries as former Vice President Mike Pence…

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