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A Publix Super Markets store located along U.S. 19 in Tarpon Springs.
Publix gets 1 out of 4 Florida coronavirus vaccines, which officials don’t track
Florida officials say the arrangement with Publix is “imperfect” but that it prioritizes getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible.
Lifted by polls, DeSantis vows: ‘The sun is rising here in Florida’
House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R- Palm Harbor, far left, and Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Spring Hill, far right, listen as Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers his address during the joint session of the Florida Legislature at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
“The Tampa Bay area should be well represented in this next go-round,” DeSantis said in his State of the State remarks to lawmakers and their leaders, Chris Sprowls and Wilton Simpson.
Florida’s Capitol amid the pandemic: Safe, inconvenient and empty
Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Tallahassee during Opening Day of the Florida Legislature on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
“This is an opening day like none other,’' said Sen. Wilton Simpson, a Trilby Republican, Tuesday morning as he gaveled in the Senate with fewer visitors in the galleries than usual.
Timeline: Florida’s dark year for the sunshine law
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis prepares to speak on a range of topics related to the coronavirus on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, during a press conference at the USF Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute in Tampa.
How closely is Gov. Ron DeSantis’ following Florida’s sunshine law? Here’s a timeline from last year.

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  1. Senate panel favors proposal to change how Florida uses school tests
    2 hours ago• Education
    Sen. Perry Thurston presents his bill to pause the consequences of state accountability testing during a Senate Education Committee meeting Tuesday.
  2. Fact-checking Rick Scott’s claim of wasteful spending in the coronavirus relief bill
    4 hours ago• Politics
    Sen. Rick Scott, R-Naples, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday in Orlando.
  3. FBI chief warns violent ‘domestic terrorism’ growing in U.S.
    4 hours ago• Nation & World
    FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. Wray is condemning the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol as “domestic terrorism.”
  5. Senate Dems sort final details of $1.9 trillion virus relief bill
    5 hours ago• Nation & World
    The sun shines Tuesday on the U.S. Capitol dome.
  6. Lifted by polls, DeSantis vows: ‘The sun is rising here in Florida’
    Yesterday• Politics
    House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R- Palm Harbor, far left, and Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Spring Hill, far right, listen as Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers his address during the joint session of the Florida Legislature at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
  7. Publix gets 1 out of 4 Florida coronavirus vaccines, which officials don’t track
    Yesterday• Politics
    A Publix Super Markets store located along U.S. 19 in Tarpon Springs.
  8. Florida’s Capitol amid the pandemic: Safe, inconvenient and empty
    Yesterday• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Tallahassee during Opening Day of the Florida Legislature on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
  9. Minimum wage hike all but dead in big coronavirus relief bill
    Yesterday• News
    Activists appeal for a $15 minimum wage near the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill being prepped in Congress includes a provision that over five years would hike the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
  10. Democratic voting bill would make biggest changes in decades
    Yesterday• News
    A bicyclist stops to admire the red, white and blue lights illuminating San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco. Congress is beginning debate on the biggest overhaul of U.S. elections law in a generation.
  11. Biden tries to reset relationship with Mexican president
    Yesterday• News
    President Joe Biden appears during a virtual meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, March 1, 2021, in Washington.
  12. DeSantis says $16 billion in federal aid to Florida is unfair
    Yesterday• Politics
    President Joe Biden, left and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, right.
  13. Florida’s unemployment fix could cost $244 million
    Yesterday• Politics
    Dane Eagle, the executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, pictured here when he served in the Florida House.
  14. Florida police, firefighters and teachers over 50 to get vaccine, DeSantis says
    Yesterday• Politics
    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
  15. Democratic voting bill would make biggest changes in decades
    Yesterday• Politics
    A bicyclist stops to admire the red, white and blue lights illuminating San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco. Congress is beginning debate on the biggest overhaul of U.S. elections law in a generation.
  16. Vacancies block Florida board from meeting on land preservation grants
    Yesterday• Environment
    Brad Husserl, 60, of Tarpon Springs, left Don Richter, 64, of Palm Harbor, second from left, Kay Carter, 68, Tarpon Springs, second from right, listen as Kay's husband Tex, 68, speaks Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020 in Tarpon Springs. The group formed a nonprofit called WK Preservation Group Inc. in March in order to save the approximate 14 acres of land located along Klosterman Road in Tarpon Springs.
  17. Timeline: Florida’s dark year for the sunshine law
    Yesterday• Politics
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis prepares to speak on a range of topics related to the coronavirus on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, during a press conference at the USF Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute in Tampa.
  18. Florida’s sunshine laws dim as DeSantis decides what to disclose
    Yesterday• Politics
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  19. Trump set to return to the spotlight with speech today at CPAC in Orlando
    Feb. 28• Nation & World
    Conference attendees flock to a statue of former president Donald Trump on Saturday at the merchandise show of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando.
  20. Tampa-based pro-choice group backs Darden Rice in St. Pete mayor’s race
    Feb. 28• St. Petersburg
    Darden Rice has received the backing of Ruth's List, a pro-choice group that supports Democratic women for state and local offices.
  21. Do reporters deserve hate crime protections? A Tampa state senator says yes.
    Feb. 28• Politics
    State Sen. Janet Cruz, D-Tampa, has filed a bill that would extend the protection of the state’s hate crime statutes to reporters.
  22. Another aide accuses New York Gov. Cuomo of sexual harassment
    Feb. 28• Nation & World
    In this Feb. 24 photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a press conference before the opening of a mass COVID-19 vaccination site in the Queens borough of New York. A former aide’s allegations that Gov. Cuomo subjected her to an unwanted kiss during years of sexual harassment have spurred calls for an investigation — and questions about who might meaningfully conduct one.
  23. Republicans oppose another relief bill. Will it pay off again?
    Feb. 27• Health
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center left, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., center right, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right of Schumer, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left of Pelosi, with bipartisan members of the House and Senate, hold a moment of silence for 500,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday on the east front steps of the Capitol in Washington.
  24. Florida’s first and only Hispanic governor
    Feb. 27• Community News
    Former Governor Bob Martinez poses for a portrait at the office building where he works in Tampa on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021.
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