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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 3.1.21 With apologies to the late, great Tim Russert … The top three issues facing the 2021 Florida Legislature are COVID, COVID, COVID. It’s 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 do...

The Legislature could really help out: The United States needs more comprehensive research into marijuana’s effects on body and mind.

“It’s certainly something that’s on the table,” Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, told reporters.

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has been an early critic of President Joe Biden's vaccination plan. oe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has emerged as one of President Joe Biden's earliest critics. Expect the Florida Republican to remain a thorn in the side for the Biden White House. Fighting Biden could boost DeSantis' political future — perhaps even a 2024 pres...

POLITICO ‘What Democrat beats that guy?’: Top Dems flinch from Rubio challenge Florida Democrats can’t stand Marco Rubio. But, at the moment, they don’t have much confidence they can knock him off in 2022. The reasons for the hesitance to take on Sen. Marco Rubio are myriad. But none worry Democrats as much as the bilingual Cuban-American’s ethnicity and his home base in Miami-Dade. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images Link Copied MIAMI — Few Republicans are more loathed by Democrats than Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Many have never looked at him the same since, after helping to draft the 2013 ...