Florida lawmakers next week will start the annual 60-day legislative session. Here are 10 big issues to watch.....MORE
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Community leaders hosting forum to address gun violence in Tampa
The East Tampa Business and Civic Association is hosting its first Teen Community Meeting Wednesday night to address gun violence, and what community leaders can do to stop it.....MORE
National Democrats diss Ron DeSantis’ new, best-selling book
Though Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ new book is a best seller on at least one chart, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is dissing it anyway.
The DNC War Room is firing shots at The Courage to Be Free, contending that the volume elides mention of certain aspects of his “his long track record of pushing an extreme agenda and chasing after the MAGA base.”
More HERE
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
New College conservative board votes to abolish DEI office
Trustees picked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee New College of Florida voted Tuesday to abolish its small office that handles diversity, equity and inclusion programs targeted by conservatives throughout the state university system.
The trustees voted 9-3 to get rid of the school's Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence, with four full-time staff positions to be transferred elsewhere to vacant jobs. The board also voted to permit interim President Richard Corcoran to consider ending a single online mandatory employee diversity training program that few actually take.
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Florida moves to expand ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law in coming legislative session
Florida lawmakers introduced legislation to prohibit someone describing themselves or others with pronouns besides the ones they were born with, at least in the context of the Florida education system.
The legislation, House Bill 1223, is aimed at requiring “specified policies relating to person’s sex at public K-12 educational institutions.” The bill summary says it “prohibits specified actions relating to use of certain titles and pronouns; and revises requirements for instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools.”
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Tampa rent rose more than any other US city since start of pandemic
The cost of rent across the United States is going up for the first time in five months according to new rental data from ApartmentList. Their March report said in Tampa, rents were up higher than the rest of the country....MORE
Chris Cano at US Supreme Court demanding they uphold student debt cancellation
In front of the US Supreme Court demanding they uphold student debt cancellation.
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New College will look to abolish DEI during the first meeting of its new board
The New College of Florida Board of Trustees on Tuesday is slated to consider policy changes related to diversity, equity and inclusion during its first meeting with interim President Richard Corcoran.
The board will consider four overarching proposals: “abolish DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) bureaucracies,” “end mandatory diversity training,” “curtail political coercion (mandatory diversity statements)” and “end identity-based preferences.”
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Four takeaways from DeSantis’ new book
“The battles we have fought in Florida – from defeating the biomedical security state to stifling woke corporations to fighting indoctrination in schools – strike at the heart of what it means to be a Floridian and an American,” DeSantis writes.....MORE
Monday, February 27, 2023
Florida Bill Would Destroy Higher Education as We Know It
With the introduction of HB 999, the Florida legislature--at Governor DeSantis’s urging--has doubled down on its attacks on academic freedom with a bill that would effectively silence faculty and students across the ideological spectrum and purge whole fields of study from public universities. MORE
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