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80° F, Cloudy/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/5E4F634TCBCQ7GTVVSGFIWV75A.JPG "A voter walks into a voting precinct located at Bethel Lutheran Church Tuesday, March 17, 2020 in Clearwater.")
Find which congressional and state House and Senate districts you’ll vote in this year under the maps approved by Gov. DeSantis and the Florida Legislature.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/CUWHWYSI2RHPNDOVGIGWEZPX6M.JPG "From start to finish, the Legislature spent a total of three days in Tallahassee to address what most agree is a five-alarm crisis in the state’s insurance market.")
“Why don’t we legislate anymore?” a lawmaker asked.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/DNJUD5S4MBGNPMILGPKXM2TFKI.jpg "Reedy Creek Improvement District Fire Department Station 4, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021.")
Hillsborough County has more special districts than any other county in Florida.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/T7XJEI4FWFDBLBDLKF3XF6WDUA.JPG "Rep. Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, speaks on the floor before her colleagues before they vote on the 15-weeks abortion bill ban at the Florida State House in Tallahassee, on Feb. 16, 2022.")
Driskell was elected on Tuesday as the leader of the Florida House Democratic Caucus. The Tampa-area representative has been in office since 2018.
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/OLOXSTH2JQEOXOWMT2I2MNJWWM.jpg "On Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed bills lawmakers passed in a special session to try to deal with the property insurance crisis and to increase the safety of condos.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/KAKAIES537ZQW6TNXFEEKDVS5M.jpg "Cuban currency, left behind by a migrant, is tied to the border wall in Yuma, Ariz., Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/AX4LJ3C3EIQNXWGKFXBRU2OAAE.jpg "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber on the morning after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children, at the Capitol in Washington.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/TMRPULWERQI6TKTRIBWI6S7HAY.jpg "Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri was appointed to lead a statewide commission to investigate what led to the 2018 Parkland shooting and make recommendations to improve campus safety in Florida.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/SGOLYDCSWZUFHSTSYEKXZG42KU.jpg "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference in Uvalde, Texas Wednesday, May 25, 2022. The 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a single classroom and \"began shooting anyone that was in his way,\" authorities said Wednesday in detailing the latest mass killing to rock the U.S.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/TASSHRKB6FHZRLFHPRASWCPT7Y.JPG "First-time voter Javontae Collins of Clearwater fills out his ballot on Election Day in 2020.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/HTQVDDZ6VXQSSLDRPWTMMU2VVA.jpg "Crime scene tape surrounds Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday.")
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/AOBAORNVF3SYF7CG4R77HJHI3Y.jpg "Lillie Perez, 11, holds a sign during a \"March for Our Lives\" protest for gun legislation and school safety on March 24, 2018, in Houston. Students and activists across the country planned events Saturday in conjunction with a Washington march spearheaded by teens from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where over a dozen people were killed in February 2018.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/Z435M7XF6EQ46WIPONFK7FSEJQ.jpg "House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, bangs his gavel Tuesday at the Capitol in Tallahassee. Legislators were there to work on property insurance reform.")
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/KQOLEDNCZRFQXG2NJY2MPYGETM.jpg "Jestine Iannotti, photographed in Stockholm, on April 26, 2021, declined to comment when asked about her no-party bid for the Florida state Senate. She is facing criminal charges in Florida, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced on Tuesday.")
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