Anne GeggisOctober 30, 2023
6min0
Legislation made $14 million available for schools to get grants that would make it easier for first responders to navigate school corridors in an emergency.
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Anne GeggisOctober 30, 2023
Peter SchorschMarch 2, 2018
3min400
Lehigh Acres Republican Rep. Matt Caldwell said Thursday that retailers are within their rights to pull guns from their shelves, but consumers who don’t favor such policies can vote with their dollars. “The Citizens United case confirmed that the 1st Amendment protects everyone’s free speech, both individuals and corporations like Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart. […]
Staff ReportsFebruary 16, 2018
2min284
A group of high schoolers has walked out of classes to protest gun violence after a mass shooting killed 17 people at a neighboring school. The South Broward High School students began their protest along U.S. 1 in Hollywood as school started on Friday morning. Students told news outlets they were protesting gun violence, the […]
Mitch PerryNovember 15, 2017
8min520
A likeness of educator and civil-rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune is one step closer to replacing a statue of a Confederate general as one of Florida’s two representatives in the U.S. Capitol. On Wednesday, the Senate Appropriations Committee cleared a bill (SB 472) to replace the statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith with Bethune, who lived 1875-1955. Only Sen. Dennis Baxley, an Ocala […]