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Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried speaks during a meeting addressing the importance of the state applying for available federal food assistance for children, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, at the St. Ruth Missionary Baptist Church in Dania Beach.
Nikki Fried helped elect Republicans leading Florida’s vaccine fight
The Democratic candidate for governor campaigned for Manny Diaz and donated to Ashley Moody in 2017.
Some teacher bonus checks are bouncing in Florida
Sitting on stage inside Mater Academy in Hialeah, Gov. Ron Desantis signed a bill for a pay raise for Florida teachers that was accomplished with bipartisan support.
Checks issued to at least 50 teachers in 22 different counties bounced because of a banking error, Florida Department of Education spokesman Jared Ochs said.
Florida hasn’t used $30 million in cybersecurity protection funding. Why not?
Then-state Rep. Jamie Grant, R-Tampa, in Tallahassee in 2019.
Florida’s chief information officer said his office is so short-staffed that it hasn’t come up with a plan to spend the money.
Florida lawmakers promise to follow rules this time in redistricting
The last time around, it took court orders to finalize the maps of congressional and state Senate districts in Florida. The process, using new data from the 2020 Census, began Monday, Sept. 20, in Tallahassee. In this photo from 2014, Senate Reapportionment Chairman Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, discusses an amendment on the floor of the Senate. Behind him are maps of the 2012 Florida congressional districts, left, and the redrawn districts he proposed.
Promises of propriety put lawmakers in a tricky situation as they try to adhere to the state Constitution while appearing to be detached from the impact their maps will have on their careers and their...
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  1. Florida minimum wage goes up to $10 this week
    3 hours ago• Politics
    Ms. Gail Rogers, 60, a fast food worker at McDonalds, holds a sign after participating in a caravan to several area McDonalds restaurants to advocate for increasing the minimum wage to $15 in 2020 in Tampa.
  2. Tampa Bay Times and Spectrum Bay News 9 to host St. Petersburg mayoral debate
    Earlier today• Elections
    Ken Welch and Robert Blackmon
  3. Florida employees feel COVID-19 pressure
    Earlier today• Politics
    Florida's Cabinet: From left, Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis.
  5. Hillsborough GOP group starts fundraising for voter registration drive
    Sep. 25• Hillsborough
    A committee of prominent Republican leaders in Hillsborough County, formed as a supplement to the floundering county GOP organization, has begun fundraising for a voter registration drive.
  6. Biden says budget talks hit ‘stalemate,’ $3.5T may take a while
    Sep. 25• Nation & World
    President Joe Biden walks off after speaking about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington.
  7. Tampa Bay judge dismisses Anna Paulina Luna stalking injunction against Braddock
    Sep. 25• Politics
    In this June 22 file photo, Anna Paulina Luna appears via Zoom during a hearing in Clearwater.
  8. Some teacher bonus checks are bouncing in Florida
    Sep. 24• Politics
    Sitting on stage inside Mater Academy in Hialeah, Gov. Ron Desantis signed a bill for a pay raise for Florida teachers that was accomplished with bipartisan support.
  9. Florida lawmakers promise to follow rules this time in redistricting
    Sep. 24• Politics
    The last time around, it took court orders to finalize the maps of congressional and state Senate districts in Florida. The process, using new data from the 2020 Census, began Monday, Sept. 20, in Tallahassee. In this photo from 2014, Senate Reapportionment Chairman Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, discusses an amendment on the floor of the Senate. Behind him are maps of the 2012 Florida congressional districts, left, and the redrawn districts he proposed.
  10. Wengay Newton files to run for former state House seat
    Sep. 24• St. Petersburg
    Wengay Newton has filed to run in St. Petersburg’s House District 70.
  11. Nikki Fried helped elect Republicans leading Florida’s vaccine fight
    Sep. 24• Politics
    Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried speaks during a meeting addressing the importance of the state applying for available federal food assistance for children, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, at the St. Ruth Missionary Baptist Church in Dania Beach.
  12. Hillsborough getting new judges, but Black judicial numbers still lag
    Sep. 24• Hillsborough
    Hillsborough County is finally getting six new judges in its understaffed county court division, which has been bogged down for years with huge caseloads and not enough judges.
  13. Florida hasn’t used $30 million in cybersecurity protection funding. Why not?
    Sep. 24• Politics
    Then-state Rep. Jamie Grant, R-Tampa, in Tallahassee in 2019.
  14. Have Black Florida marijuana farmers fallen too far behind?
    Sep. 23• Politics
    Sen. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, called the director of Florida's medical marijuana program to testify at a hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.
  15. Crist lashes out at DeSantis administration’s order easing COVID rules
    Sep. 23• Politics
    U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, D-St. Petersburg
  16. Democrats: We have framework to pay for $3.5 trillion, 10-year plan
    Sep. 23• Politics
    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined from left by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., updates reporters on Democratic efforts to pass President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  17. DeSantis defends natural immunity, despite lack of data
    Sep. 23• Politics
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
  18. Everyone is talking about DeSantis — except in St. Pete’s mayor race
    Sep. 23• Politics
    Former Pinellas County Commissioner Ken Welch (left), Gov. Ron DeSantis (middle) and City Councilmember Robert Blackmon
  19. Two Florida pari-mutuels seek to block sports betting debut
    Sep. 22• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis and Marcellus Osceola, Jr., chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, pose for a photo at a signing ceremony on Friday, April 23, 2021.
  20. Texas-style abortion bill filed in Florida
    Sep. 22• Politics
    State Rep. Webster Barnaby, R-Deltona, filed a Texas-style abortion bill.
  21. Florida Republicans close voter registration gap with Democrats
    Sep. 22• Politics
    Rohn Kahn, 28 registers to vote at the Latinos for Trump booth on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019 in Tampa.
  22. Florida issues new executive order easing school COVID rules
    Sep. 22• Politics
    St. Petersburg High students Sydney Conroy, right, and Toby Lam wear a masks as they arrive on Aug. 11, 2021, the first day of school in Pinellas County.
  23. 4 times Florida’s new surgeon general bucked the coronavirus consensus
    Sep. 22• Politics
    Dr. Joseph Ladapo, left, was named Tuesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis as Florida's next surgeon general.
  24. Trump sues niece, New York Times over records behind 2018 tax story
    Sep. 22• Nation & World
    Former President Donald Trump, soeaking here in Dallas during July, has filed suit against his estranged niece, Mary Trump and The New York Times over a bombshell 2018 story about his family’s wealth and tax practices.
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