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A state grant program offering up to $10,000 for home-hardening improvements could be expanded from coastal regions to the entire state and get another $100 million in funding. Lawmakers are considering a proposal to expand the My Safe Florida Home Program and expand some of its eligible projects to townhouses.
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A long-time reader reflects on LGBTQ groups' "travel advisories" and the hateful rhetoric of a Republican legislator.
A bill aimed at securing Sunbiz.org after a Parrish man was accused of fraudulently using the state's business records system poised to pass.
Whether it was politics or logistics, abortion is shaping up to be a tricky issue for Republicans nationally.
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As Republicans enacted a new law to ban virtually all abortions in Florida after the sixth week of pregnancy, there were defections in the ranks. Four of the GOP state representatives from Broward and Palm Beach counties broke with their party and opposed the legislation.