Scott PowersApril 12, 2019
4min1619
'I'm just a regular guy," said the Army veteran.
Tag: First AmendmentMike Johnson. Image via AP.
Scott PowersApril 12, 2019
Jacob OglesMarch 21, 2019
5min536
“This is where every state is going anyway."
Jacob OglesMarch 5, 2019
14min850
Trump co-chair's bill stops shadow-banning, opens companies to major fines.
Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 24, 2018
4min241
A former Democratic candidate for the Florida House is suing a former Chris Latvala campaign staffer, claiming she wrongly accessed his Facebook account to obtain damaging information. In 2016, David Vogel ran and lost against the Republican Latvala for House District 67, which covers parts of north Pinellas County. After announcing his campaign, Janice Silva sent Vogel […]
Joe HendersonAugust 16, 2018
6min498
The job of the free press is to find out stuff the public needs to know, make sure it’s accurate, and then share that information with the people. A lot of times the mission means upsetting the powerful and those who support them. These days, it means enduring taunts of “fake news” and people who […]
Jim RosicaAugust 2, 2018
6min320
State Rep. Chuck Clemons is appealing a federal judge’s decision not to toss out a lawsuit against him because he blocked a constituent from his official social media. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida had denied the Newberry Republican’s motion to dismiss in May. While Clemons appeals Walker’s ruling to the 11th […]
Joe HendersonMay 29, 2018
7min224
Between school days and ballgames, I figure I have stood for the National Anthem or the Pledge of Allegiance at least several thousand times. High school football and basketball games. College games. Pro games. Multiple Super Bowl and World Series games. Oh say, can you see? At games where a Canadian team was involved, I […]
Danny McAuliffeMarch 11, 2018
3min587
The state’s leadership is drawing praise for removing “free-speech zones” from college campuses. Gov. Rick Scott on Sunday will sign a sweeping higher education bill (SB 4) into law that includes language preventing state colleges and universities from restricting free speech to certain areas on campuses. Generation Opportunity, a center-right political advocacy organization, commended Scott […]
Jim RosicaFebruary 6, 2018
5min359
The Senate version of the “Campus Free Expression Act” cleared its first panel on a party-line vote Tuesday over the opposition of the state’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter. The ACLU of Florida says the bill (SB 1234) “would make Florida public colleges and universities legally liable for disruptions caused by student protesters.” Democrats on the […]
Jim RosicaDecember 5, 2017
4min783
An “educational display of the astronomy causing the winter solstice” is the first holiday display to gain approval this year for the Florida Capitol rotunda. A “triptych poster,” sponsored by the First Coast Freethought Society of Jacksonville, is approved for display Dec. 15-22. Nina Ashley, spokeswoman for the Department of Management Services, the state’s real […]