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Behind him inside the kill zone. So, don held onto that grenade. And he pulled it close to his body. And he bentso over it. And then as one of the men said, all of a sudden, there was a boom. The blast threw the lead soldier up against a boulder, men were riddled with shrapnel, four were medevaced out. But everyone else survived. Don had absorbed the brunt of the explosion with his body. He saved the lives of those next to him and today, we are joined by two men who were with him on that patrol...

Quality Journalism for Critical Times Don’t you love a good mystery? I sure do. From “Perry Mason” to “Poker Face,” if it’s a whodunnit, I’m hooked. So when I heard about the Mystery of the $400 Million, I couldn’t resist trying to sort through the clues about how it all happened. The mystery isn’t where the money would go. In […] The post Who put $400 million into Florida budget for new reservoir? No one will say appeared fir...

Quality Journalism for Critical Times One month after a federal court upheld Gov. Ron DeSantis’ erasure of a Black-held congressional district in North Florida, voting-rights groups have asked the court to reconsider in light of the discriminatory intent the judges suggested the governor might hold. A three-judge panel sitting in the federal Northern District of Florida ruled on March 28 […] The post U.S. court asked to reconsider ruling upholding DeSantis’ quashing of Black...

Quality Journalism for Critical Times Speaking a day after he announced that he will run for reelection to the state attorney’s position in Hillsborough County that Gov. Ron DeSantis forcibly removed him from two years ago, Andrew Warren has blasted Suzy Lopez, the former prosecutor and trial judge with whom DeSantis replaced him. “Voters elected me because of my vision […] The post Andrew Warren says Hillsborough State Atty. Suzy Lopez is ‘pretending to be there legi...

Quality Journalism for Critical Times As lawmakers redistricted in 2022, the Florida Legislature packed Black voters into a Senate district spanning Tampa Bay to favor white control of a neighboring Senate district, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Tampa. The ACLU of Florida, Civil Rights & Racial Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law, and […] The post Federal lawsuit: Two state Senate districts in Tampa Bay are ‘racially gerrymandered’ app...

Quality Journalism for Critical Times Testimony ended Tuesday morning in a constitutional challenge to a 2023 law imposing restrictions on voter registration organizations. While awaiting a ruling, these groups have stopped signing up new voters ahead of the general election in November. Voter-rights advocates, state officials, political science experts, and canvassers testified in court hearings that started on April 1. […] The post Testimony ends in lawsuit over 2023 law cracking down o...

Quality Journalism for Critical Times For more than three decades, Cynthia Slater has helped Black Floridians register to vote, she testified Thursday morning. But the Florida NAACP’s civic engagement chair stopped organizing voter registration drives because of restrictions imposed under a 2023 law. Before Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 7050 last year, the Florida State Conference of the NAACP had […] The post FL NAACP stopped voter registration drives amid legal challenge to electio...

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ $141,400 annual salary doesn’t make it in the top ten highest paid governors in the country.

A case before the Florida Supreme Court has brought into question whether the Department of Corrections acted correctly when firing a corrections officer due to his off-duty use of medical marijuana.

The book “Laboratories of Democracy: A New Breed of Governor Creates Models for National Growth” appeared in 1988, positing that individual states were poised to experiment with progressive policies that