Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 3.1.21
With apologies to the late, great
Tim Russert ⦠The top three issues facing the 2021 Florida Legislature are COVID, COVID, COVID.
Itâs no surprise that just about everything that will happen during the 60-day Session will be directly or indirectly related to the pandemic or influenced by the countless ways it has changed life in our state.
From health care policy to the budget, from education policy to the environment, the Session will seem like all COVID-19, all the time. Even where legislation doesnât directly link to COVID-19 â say, school choice â lawmakers will be factoring in what it will cost in a pandemic-battered economy or how it will help kids whose schooling was turned upside down.
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The daily rundown Between Saturday and Sunday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 5,539 (nearly 0.3 percent), to 1,909,221; deaths went up by 118 (0.3 percent), to 30,852. Between Thursday and Sunday, active hospitalizations decreased by 283 (7.1 percent), to 3,679. 3,017,661 Floridians have had at least dose of the vaccine.
The findings of a three-month analysis of the Department of Economic Opportunity’s aging Connect system is scheduled to be presented Monday in Tallahassee to the state Senate Select Committee on Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
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DeSantis seeks to clip local authority as lawmakers examine his emergency powers by John Haughey, The Center Square | February 25, 2021 03:00 PM Print this article
For the first time in U.S. history, all 50 states are under simultaneous emergency declarations that accord varying degrees of unilateral authority to governors.
Florida has been in a state of emergency since March 9, 2020, meaning it has essentially been under the one-man rule of Gov. Ron DeSantis for nearly a year.
Under emergency powers, DeSantis implemented a statewide stay-at-home order in April, launched reopening plans in May and, in September, lifted all state-level restrictions and limited local governments’ capacity to shut down businesses for violating local COVID-19 protocols.