90 results
page 1 of 4
'It's unjust': Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill banning local heat safety and wage laws
The bill was a priority of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and other business groups.
By McKenna Schueler
Tags: Florida News, Labor, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Florida heat bill, Florida heat safety bill, Florida heat, Florida HB 433, HB 433, Tiffany Esposito, Ron DeSantis, Florida labor bill, anti-worker bills, Florida Chamber of Commerce
Less than a year before the 2024 elections, Florida is still brawling over DeSantis' redistricting plan
‘A historically performing benchmark district for Black voters was not just diminished — it was eliminated,’ read the dissent, in part.
By Jim Saunders, NSF
Tags: Florida News, Elections, redistricting, Florida District 5, proportional representation, voting rights, DeSantis
DeSantis ‘reloads’ presidential run by replacing his campaign manager
Don’t call it a reboot, please — definitely do not think about boots, white boots, boots of any kind
By Jessica Bryce Young and News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Elections, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, presidential election, 2024, campaign, election, Generra Peck, James Uthmeier
What do Florida’s new ‘whitewashed’ Black history standards mean for the state of education?
An interview with UCF Professor Robert Cassanello, who specializes in Florida’s civil rights history
Tags: Florida News, Education, Ron DeSantis, Florida african american history standards, Florida education law, Florida slavery, Florida board of education rules, Florida Black history rule, stop woke, Florida stoke woke, DeSantis
Nazi demonstrators wave DeSantis sign and swastikas outside Disney World in Orlando
P!nk tweeted out what we were all thinking: 'ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????!!!!!!!!'
Tags: Orlando Area News, Orlando Theme Parks, Ron DeSantis, Nazi, anti-Semitism, Florida Nazis, neo-Nazis at Disney, Disney World, anti-Semitism in Orlando, hate speech in Orlando, Disney, DeSantis, Slideshow
Orlando's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Drag to demonstrate against recent spate of Florida anti-LGBTQ+ legislation
Show up for Orlando's drag community this weekend
Tags: Orlando Area News, Lake Eola Park, Orlando Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Drag Protest, Orlando drag, Orlando LGBTQ+, Protest, Florida, DeSantis
Florida furries convention forced to add age restriction by DeSantis' drag law
The MegaPlex meetup for furries and fans is using an abundance of caution regarding DeSantis' pet anti-drag law
By Jessica Bryce Young
Tags: Orlando Area News, furries, megaplex, Orlando cons, Florida slate of hate, fandoms, cosplay, drag, SB 1438, DeSantis, Christian nationalism, Gilead
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ war on ‘woke ideology’ in higher education threatens academic freedom
We’ve seen this all before.
Tags: Florida News, Education, higher ed, faculty, AFL-CIO, DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis targets prescription drug ‘middlemen’
He hopes to make the issue a priority in the 2023 legislative session
By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, DeSantis, Florida healthcare, Medicare, pharmacy benefit managers
Florida judge will consider whether to toss out a lawsuit over Gov. DeSantis' migrant flights
The case focuses primarily on $12 million added to the state budget to carry out a “program to facilitate the transport of unauthorized aliens from this state.”
By The News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Martha's vineyard, DeSantis, migrant flight, Slideshow
Florida’s ‘intellectual freedom’ college surveys are ‘highly problematic,’ says witness
“This survey, in perpetuity, has a chilling effect,” Lichtman said.
By Ryan Dailey, NSF
Tags: Florida News, United Faculty of Florida union, DeSantis, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker
United Faculty of Florida union pushes back on DeSantis' latest battle against diversity initiatives
‘A man who will silence those with whom he disagrees — in the classroom and beyond — will one day find a reason to silence you as well’
Tags: Florida News, education, diversity, DeSantis, Stop WOKE
New Florida elections chief hems and haws on whether Biden won election
By Jim Turner, NSF
Tags: Florida News, Florida, Elections, Laws, DeSantis, Cord Byrd
Florida House passes redistricting maps over sit-in protest from Democrats
By Ashley Maria Bermudez
Tags: Florida News, Elections + Politics, Florida Legislature, DeSantis, districts, maps
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill banning abortions after 15 weeks
Tags: Florida News, Elections + Politics, Abortion Rights, DeSantis, abortion, 15-week ban, Ron DeSantis, Florida, Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights, Slideshow
Disney heir comes out as trans, condemns Florida 'Don't Say Gay' law
Tags: Florida News, Disney, LGBTQ+, trans, Human Rights Campaign, Don't Say Gay, DeSantis, Trevor Project, Slideshow
As long as selfishness wins, the pandemic is here to stay
America shrugged
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Tags: Opinion, coronavirus, pandemic, DeSantis, Joe Manchin, 1 million dead
Even Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis got dinged by booming housing prices caused by the pandemic
The value of the home he sold two years ago to move into governor's mansion has gone up 50 percent
By Elise Elder, Fresh Take Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, DeSantis, Florida, real estate, housing
White House formalizes federal COVID worker rules; Florida Gov. DeSantis swears he'll fight the power
Tags: Bloggytown, DeSantis, COVID, politics
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is cooking the books on our COVID numbers
Tags: Columns, opinion, COVID, DeSantis, coronavirus, Trump
Lawsuit: DeSantis administration's meager COVID data reporting violates Florida public records laws
Tags: Bloggytown, COVID, coronavirus, DeSantis, Florida, data, public records, information, public interest
Florida university leaders say their ‘hands are tied’ and they cannot mandate masks
Tags: Bloggytown, COVID-19, coronavirus, masks, mask mandate, DeSantis, Florida, colleges, universities, public school, higher education
Federal education officials are ‘closely monitoring’ Florida school mask policies
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, coronavirus, COVID-19, public schools, mask mandates, DeSantis, Florida
Florida judge subjects DeSantis' pet anti-protest law to a grammatical challenge
By Dara Kam, NSF
Tags: Bloggytown, grammar, law, DeSantis, HB 1, anti-protest, anti-riot
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody sues Biden administration for not deporting enough immigrants
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: Bloggytown, Biden, Florida, Immigration, Lawsuit, DeSantis, Ashley Moody, Republican
UCF Knights Baseball vs. Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles Baseball
@ UCF Baseball Complex
Tue., April 23, 6 p.m.
or
Browse all Film Times
Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered right to your inbox.
Orlando is the least walkable city in the country, says study
By Chloe Greenberg
Florida lobbyists leaned on pols to get ban on local heat safety and wage laws across the finish line, records show
Orlando restaurants burned rubber at the 2024 Michelin Guide ceremony
By Faiyaz Kara
A unique double-story geometric dome home made from a combination of brick, wood and stone is now for sale in Florida. Dubbed…
Judson's Live kicked off their monthly Sunday brunch concert series this weekend. The audience dined on elevated Southern fare and, even more…
By Jim Leatherman
Viral TikTok sensation Benson Boone wowed the crowd at Orlando's House of Blues IRL as part of his "Fireblades and Rollerskates" world…
By J.D. Casto
If you've been paying attention, you know that Orlando has been unwavering in its major strides in the culinary scene. Constantly welcoming…
View more issues