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Apr 30, 2021 7:15 AM Tallahassee, FL – With time running out before the end of this year’s legislative session, Florida lawmakers signed off Thursday night on a controversial elections bill that would make it harder for voters to cast ballots by mail. Republican lawmakers backed away from more-stringent proposals contained in earlier versions of the elections overhaul. But the bill continued to draw fierce opposition from Democrats who said it would put up barriers to voting. The measure (SB 90) focuses largely on vote-by-mail processes, mirroring in some aspects proposals being consi...

Weekly Roundup: Big changes in the eleventh hour By News Service of Florida | April 30, 2021 at 4:46 PM EDT - Updated April 30 at 4:46 PM TALLAHASSEE Fla. (WWSB) - Lawmakers picked up the pace as the clock wound down on the 2021 legislative session, with Republicans calmly slipping in last-minute changes and Democrats frenziedly - and futilely - trying to stave them off. Eleventh-hour amendments addressed some of this year’s most contentious issues, such as a proposal to ban transgender female athletes from competing on girls’ high-school and women’s college teams. The issue was bel...

Florida lawmakers pass controversial elections overhaul bill By The News Service of Florida Published  State lawmakers pass voting bill With time running out before the end of this year’s legislative session, Florida lawmakers signed off Thursday night on a controversial elections bill that would make it harder for voters to cast ballots by mail. TALLAHASSEE - With time running out before the end of this year’s legislative session, Florida lawmakers signed off Thursday night on a controversial elections bill that would make it harder for voters to cast ballots by mail. Republican lawmake...

CARLOS OSORIOGetty Images Where are we screwing with the franchise today, class? Yes, you in the back. Michigan? Very good, Bueller. While Michigan has a Republican legislature, it also has a Democratic governor named Gretchen Whitman, who is so dedicated to doing her job that a bunch of armed rubes planned to kidnap her and put her on trial. She has a veto and is not afraid to use it. However, the Republicans in the legislature are right there with the workaround. From the Last month, the state’s Republican chairman told activists that he aimed to do just that — usher new voting restri...

The NBA is blithely back to business as usual—and so are its reporters In March 2020, of all the news events announcing the impending threat of the coronavirus, the headline that definitively signaled to many Americans—many sports fans, anyway—that a pandemic had arrived was the National Basketball Association’s decision to suspend play. In the months that followed, the NBA’s quick response to a positive test from one of its players, Rudy Gobert, was widely viewed as a case study in responsible corporate action to reduce transmission of the virus. As Sports Illustratedwrote, “in ...