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Last June’s Black Lives Matter protest in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive) Republican lawmakers are pushing ahead with a controversial proposal that seeks to crack down on violent protests, make it more difficult for local governments to trim spending on law enforcement and enhance penalties related to riots and injuries to police officers. Gov. Ron DeSantis first sketched out the law-and-order plan last year, following widespread protests throughout the country over racial inequities in policing...

Florida Legislature: House moves forward on controversial bill to crack down on violent protests Dara Kam TALLAHASSEE — Republican lawmakers are pushing ahead with a controversial proposal that seeks to crack down on violent protests, make it more difficult for local governments to trim spending on law enforcement and enhance penalties related to riots and injuries to police officers. Gov. Ron DeSantis first sketched out the law-and-order plan last year, following widespread protests througho...

Florida House moves forward on health care liability protections for COVID Christine Sexton, Reporter, News Service of Florida Published:  Tags:  A health care worker works at a walk-up COVID-19 testing site in Miami on Wednesday, Nov. 18. (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In a bipartisan vote, a House panel on Wednesday agreed to move forward with a bill that would make it harder to sue nursing homes, hospitals and physicians because of alleged...

Four of the seven Democrats on the Health & Human Services Committee supported introducing the proposal as a bill, based on Chairwoman Colleen Burton’s assurances that she will keep an open door and work with lawmakers who have concerns. The bipartisan committee vote was a first step in delivering on the Republican-led Legislature’s priority of shielding nursing homes, hospitals and physicians from COVID-19 lawsuits. In a bipartisan vote, a House panel on Wednesday agreed to move forward w...

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Good news stories from last year that you may have missed One of our editors recently came across a Foreign Policy news article listing things that happened in 2020 that we might have missed… and it was almost all horrible. Wars, protests, conflicts — you name it. As if the terrible things that we didn’t miss (see: COVID-19, see: police brutality) weren’t enough. Thanks, Foreign Policy.  Yeah, 2020 was a dumpster fire, and yeah we should all take the time to grieve our lost and changed...