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Heavy traffic is seen along the Memorial Causeway as beach goers head to Clearwater Beach Tuesday, March 16, 2021.
Florida Senate passes overhaul of auto insurance. Here’s what that could mean for drivers.
Senators passed it without any independent study showing what it would do to rates.
Florida House passes bill banning transgender athletes from women’s sports
Times file photo of the transgender pride flag.
Florida is one of at least 30 states debating such a bill.
Florida Senate poised to pass DeSantis-backed anti-riot bill
Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, listens to the State of the State address being delivered by Gov. Ron DeSantis at the Capitol in Tallahassee during Opening Day of the Florida Legislature on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
The Senate is poised to pass the measure as early as this week.
After year of protests, Florida police reform targets choke holds, training
House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R- Palm Harbor.
A bill sets new use-of-force policies for Florida law enforcement officers, limits the use of the controversial choke-hold tactic and requires the state to collect data police officers use of force...

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  1. Florida Senate approves ‘anti-riot’ bill, heads now to DeSantis
    3 hours ago• Politics
    Protesters walk down Ashley dr. towards Interstate 275 before police stopped the group using pepper spray and a line of police officers on Sunday, May 31, 2020 in Tampa.
  2. Florida lawmakers carve out $31.6 million tax break for business meals
    Yesterday• Politics
    The Capital Grille.
  3. Mike Pence undergoes surgery to implant pacemaker
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Former Vice President Mike Pence has undergone surgery to have a pacemaker implanted.
  5. Florida lawmakers move to expand access and amounts of unemployment benefits
    Yesterday• Politics
    A small group of demonstrators gathers at Lake Eola Park to protest the Florida unemployment benefits system, Wednesday, June 10, 2020, in Orlando, Fla.
  6. GOP won’t punish Matt Gaetz unless charges filed, Kevin McCarthy says
    Yesterday• Politics
    Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., leaves a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
  7. Florida trans girls are cordially invited to play sports at my house
    Yesterday• Opinion
    The fields are not this great, but we'll make it work. Tribune News Service.
  8. Florida Senate passes overhaul of auto insurance. Here’s what that could mean for drivers.
    Yesterday• Politics
    Heavy traffic is seen along the Memorial Causeway as beach goers head to Clearwater Beach Tuesday, March 16, 2021.
  9. Florida Senate poised to pass DeSantis-backed anti-riot bill
    Yesterday• Politics
    Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, listens to the State of the State address being delivered by Gov. Ron DeSantis at the Capitol in Tallahassee during Opening Day of the Florida Legislature on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
  10. Key West business owners lobby legislators over port bill
    Yesterday• Politics
    In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Kim Stamps, left, photographs Michigan newlyweds Tyler Gillet, middle, and Ashley Gillet, right, by the Southernmost Point marker Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, in Key West, Fla. New measures in the Florida Legislature ban cruise ships in Key West with more than 1,300 passengers from docking at the city port and limit the total number of cruise visitors who can disembark each day to 1,500. A similar bill, HB 267, is barreling through the House.
  11. In push for overhaul in Florida elections, Senate Republicans ease up and create new controversy
    Yesterday• Politics
    Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala.
  12. Florida House passes bill banning transgender athletes from women’s sports
    Yesterday• Politics
    Times file photo of the transgender pride flag.
  13. Florida House okays exemption for college president searches
    Yesterday• Politics
    The House voted 101-16 to approve a bill (HB 997) that would create a records exemption for applicants to become college and university presidents.
  14. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor says Related deal doesn’t contain personal conflicts.
    Yesterday• Politics
    Ana Cruz, on left, and Seely Bevan, look on as Tampa Mayor Jane Castor holds up her "I Voted" sticker in front of the Stanley Cup, after she cast her ballot in person during early voting at Amalie Arena, Monday, Oct. 19, 2020 in Tampa. Cruz is Mayor Castor's partner and Bevan is Castor's son. The mayor told the Tampa Bay Times Wednesday that her partner’s lobbying firm and her nephew’s job with the developer won’t result in any family benefits, financial or otherwise.
  15. After year of protests, Florida police reform targets choke holds, training
    Yesterday• Politics
    House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R- Palm Harbor.
  16. Trial may expose Florida’s dark money behind spoiler candidates
    Yesterday• Politics
    Former state senator Frank Artiles, R-Miami.
  17. Rubio, Scott say it’s too soon to weigh in on Gaetz’s future
    Yesterday• Politics
    Matt Gaetz, the Republican congressman from Florida, speaks at a "Women for America First" event Friday in Doral.
  18. Has time run out for Legislature to make a gambling deal?
    Apr. 14• Politics
    The Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa. In order to get the Seminole Tribe to agree to a compact, and the federal regulators to approve it, the legislative deal must sufficiently benefit the Tribe, which presently operates a casino monopoly outside of Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
  19. DeSantis wants voters’ signatures to match. Would his pass the test?
    Apr. 13• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis' signature has varied over the years. Here's how he has signed official documents from 2008 to 2021.
  20. Tampa’s Rome Yard development bid in dispute
    Apr. 13• Breaking News
    A rendering of the Rome Yard development submitted by the Related Group
  21. Biden gave Florida’s infrastructure a “C” grade. What does that mean?
    Apr. 13• Politics
    President Joe Biden.
  22. Scott, Rubio file bill to overturn CDC cruise rules, resume sailing soon
    Apr. 13• Business
    Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, at podium, speaks April 9 alongside port workers and elected officials asking for the CDC and the federal government to allow the return of cruising, during a news conference in front of Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Horizon cruise ship docked at PortMiami in Miami. [Wilfredo Lee | Associated Press]
  23. DeSantis steering more money to Piney Point, wants to close site
    Apr. 13• Environment
    Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the situation at Piney Point at a press conference in Manatee County on April 4.
  24. Florida Senate advances gambling bill to add new commission, reduce live racing
    Apr. 12• Politics
    Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby.
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