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The Florida House on Thursday unanimously approved a wide-ranging $1.38 billion tax package that would include savings for shoppers and businesses, as leaders work out differences with the Senate.

The $1.38 billion tax package that would include savings for shoppers and businesses

The House bill (HB 7063) would offer shoppers a series of expanded sales-tax “holidays” on back-to-school items, hurricane-preparedness supplies, summer activities and tool purchases. As an example, the state would offer two back-to-school holidays, after offering one in the past.

The Florida House Thursday unanimously approved a $1.4 billion tax package that contains a long list of exemptions for consumers and businesses that both Democrats and Republicans praised as a “true tax relief for consumers.”

The Florida House on Thursday unanimously approved a wide-ranging $1.38 billion tax package that would include savings for shoppers and businesses, as leaders work out differences with the Senate.

‘Are You There Florida? It’s Me, Censorship’

Do Florida legislators really want to ban girls in elementary schools from asking questions or speaking about their period in school? Apparently so.

The body-positive message of the new film version of "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" is just as needed now as when the book came out 53 years ago.

Fifty-three years after the publication of Blume's 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,' the fight to destigmatize menstruation continues in film and TV.

Florida is looking to expand its Parental Rights in Education law passed last year in a way that could lead to a flood of challenged books being removed from classrooms. The state has already faced allegations of censorship for stringent restrictions in the existing law, known to its critics as “Don’t Say Gay,” on talk…