Jesse SchecknerJune 7, 2024
5min0
One gave a 5-figure donation to a super PAC backing the Governor’s short-lived presidential bid last year.
Tag: Florida Southern College
Jesse SchecknerJune 7, 2024
Gray RohrerJanuary 17, 2023
3min0
'Recruiting has been incredibly difficult especially at the rates the judicial branch hires at.'
Anne GeggisOctober 12, 2022
4min0
Investors and dealmakers chose three companies to divide $100K in prize money from the state.
Staff ReportsFebruary 15, 2021
6min1220
Students can obtain an undergraduate STEM degree and an MBA in five years or less.
Staff ReportsApril 2, 2020
3min1069
From research on rapid testing to PPE donations, independent schools are stepping up.
Scott PowersFebruary 24, 2020
4min466
Mike Bloomberg, Joe Biden, and Bernie Sanders are on top, with others well back.
Bill RuftyMay 2, 2017
4min295
Many Floridians are unable to answer simple questions about how government works, says a new survey of residents by Florida Southern College. Even those with college degree missed some of the answers from questions included on exams administered to those becoming new citizens of the nation. For example, only 65 percent could name Rick Scott […]
Bill RuftySeptember 9, 2016
8min202
If you are a presidential candidate, you can’t come to Florida with a single, cookie-cutter campaign and speak to issues based on national surveys. Florida is one of the most diverse and perhaps, with 29 electoral votes, the most crucial swing state in the presidential election, University of South Florida political science professor Susan MacManus […]
Bill RuftyFebruary 24, 2016
2min192
In 1949, an educator applied to the University of Florida Law School and was turned down. The applicant, Virgil Hawkins, was black. The law school and the court system in Florida were white and racist. The application began a nine-year fight going all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled for Hawkins. That […]
Bill RuftyFebruary 15, 2016
6min288
Polk County Commissioner Ed Smith, a Lake Alfred Republican, has pulled out of the Republican Primary for Florida House District 41, and has entered the nonpartisan race for Polk County School Board against incumbent Dick Mullenax. Smith said his decision to switch to run for a local office is based “solidly on the health of […]