Scott PowersJanuary 31, 2019
5min1625
"Florida's occupational licensing system needs to be overhauled," DeSantis said.
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Scott PowersJanuary 31, 2019
Ryan NicolJanuary 21, 2019
5min569
The civil rights leader would have turned 90 this year.
Staff ReportsJanuary 21, 2019
1min267
He's also going to a Unity Heritage Festival in Central Florida.
Scott PowersJanuary 17, 2019
12min2413
"Whether or not they have to smoke it, who am I to judge that?"
Lloyd DunkelbergerJanuary 8, 2019
8min523
Floridians can expect a quick start to the Ron DeSantis administration, with the new governor ready to make key appointments to the state Supreme Court, announce a major environmental initiative and try to improve the medical-marijuana system. “Within the next week, I think you guys are going to have a lot to write about,” DeSantis […]
Staff ReportsJanuary 7, 2019
3min411
Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis’ inaugural committee is handing over a six-figure check to Operation 300, a non-profit group that aids the families of soldiers killed in combat. DeSantis announced the $150,000 donation Monday, one day before he and Lt. Gov.-elect Jeanette Nuñez are scheduled to be sworn into office. “Without the generosity of so many, Operation […]
Guest AuthorJanuary 7, 20196min250
On Tuesday, I will raise my right hand on the steps of Florida’s Historic Capitol to take the oath of office in much the same tradition that 45 governors have before me. With my wife, Casey, and our two young children, Madison and Mason, watching, it will be a pointed reminder that to whom much […]
Lloyd DunkelbergerJanuary 6, 2019
9min686
Ron DeSantis will be Florida’s youngest governor in more than a century when he takes office on Tuesday. DeSantis, a former congressman from Ponte Vedra Beach, turned 40 about two weeks after he won the Aug. 28 Republican primary. He will be the youngest governor on Inauguration Day since Park Trammell took the oath of […]
Danny McAuliffeJanuary 2, 2019
9min515
Some of Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis‘ transition advisers are suggesting changes to the way the state administers behavioral health care. A DeSantis brain trust of health care professionals and policy experts spent a great deal of time Wednesday discussing the behavioral-health spectrum, with mental health and substance abuse at the top of their list. These issues fill the backdrop […]
Staff ReportsJanuary 2, 2019
4min763
Chris Spencer will join the Ron DeSantis administration as Policy Director, one of several hires for the Executive Office of the Governor that the transition announced Wednesday. Justin Caporale — a top aide to President Trump — will serve as DeSantis’ Director of External Affairs; Amanda Emmons will be Director of Scheduling; and Makenzi Mahler will […]