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Kim Lemon is the Senior Anchor and most tenured employee at WGAL News 8. Kim was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and has spent her whole life in the Susquehanna Valley.

By letting board vacancies languish for years, Gov. DeSantis shows disinterest in governing.

By letting board vacancies languish for years, Gov. DeSantis shows disinterest in governing.

The Florida Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. Credit: Michael Moline/Florida Phoenix Gov. Ron DeSantis blocked a pardon on Wednesday for Desmond Meade, who led the campaign behind Florida’s voting-rights restoration ballot initiative in 2018, citing Meade’s dishonorable discharge from the military. However, the governor suggested Meade could qualify for restoration of his civil rights, including the right to serve on juries and hold public office, under revised clemency rules that he and the Florida Cabinet had approved earlier in the day. “As a former military officer, a dishonorable discharge...

DeSantis tries again to strip the Florida Cabinet of its powers Orlando Sentinel 3/10/2021 Gray Rohrer, Orlando Sentinel TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet met Tuesday, wrapping up a year of infrequent gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If DeSantis gets his way, it would have even less to do. For the second year in a row, DeSantis is pushing for a bill to eliminate Cabinet oversight over a slew of agency and state personnel rules and transfer many of those powers to himself or agencies he controls, arguing that America’s Founding Fathers envisi...