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State OK'd bill preventing local government from placing greater restrictions on home-based business State lawmakers approved a bill banning cities and counties from regulating the sale of firearms With the Florida Legislature's regular session over, the state's counties, cities and towns have found themselves in a familiar situation. Lawmakers in the Florida Senate and House this year continued to chip away at the power of local governments to control everything from home-based businesses to cruise ships. "There was a lot of disappointment this session," said Cragin Mosteller, director of e...

LAKELAND – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came to Lakeland on Friday morning to stand inside a cavernous building filled with towering, orange shelves holding absolutely nothing. In the near future, DeSantis said, he expects those shelves to be loaded with pharmaceutical supplies and the LifeScience Logistics distribution center to be thrumming with activity. DeSantis held a news conference at the newly constructed warehouse to press the Biden Administration for approval of a drug-importation program created through Florida laws enacted in 2019. He said the state only needs federal permission ...

Local officials lament often-successful efforts by Legislature to take away their powers to control everything from home businesses to cruise ships

TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended all local-government coronavirus emergency orders on Monday as he signed a bill that makes permanent his ban on COVID-19 vaccine “passports” and limits the authority of cities and counties in future health-care crises. “My message is that the vaccines protect you. Get vaccinated, and then live your life as if you are protected,” DeSantis said during an event at the Big Catch at Salt Creek, a St. Petersburg restaurant. “You don’t have to chafe under restrictions infinitum.” DeSantis announced an executive order s...

Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended all local-government coronavirus emergency orders on Monday as he signed a bill that makes permanent his ban on COVID-19 vaccine “passports” and limits the authority of cities and counties in future health-care crises.