The search to find out who was behind the South Florida Standard shows how easy it is for the real people behind digital doppelgangers to remain in the shadows
Category: State Government
Posted inElections
Florida lawmakers cede redistricting authority to executive power
Florida lawmakers voted largely along party lines to rubber-stamp a new Congressional district map.
Posted inHealth
‘Release the data’: Florida Trib report on maternal health spurs billboard campaign
The campaign was launched by Mayday Health, a reproductive health education nonprofit that uses digital advertising and guerilla marketing campaigns.
Posted inFlorida
Power play: Florida AG charges into JEA feud, subpoenas records about axed lobbying deal
The April 17 subpoena narrowly targets records from of officials about Ballard Partners, a powerful Florida-based lobbying firm
Posted inHigher Education
Latest hope for downtown Jacksonville, taxpayer-financed UF campus, might start very small
UF has big plans for its downtown Jacksonville campus, but is only obligated to enroll 50 students.
Posted inFlorida
As Florida restricted abortion, state’s maternal mortality committee went dark
A secretive panel hadn’t publicly released any annual findings about maternal deaths in years until a Florida Trib reporter asked about the lack of action
Posted inFlorida
Settlement could close the book on FPL’s past controversies
Investors argued that FPL officials made misleading statements while they were navigating a series of controversies uncovered by Florida newspapers
Posted inEducation
With anti-terror law, DeSantis has new tool to reshape higher-ed
Campus protesters, already targeted by Florida’s governor, face new legal peril
Posted inImmigration, State Government
Lawmakers curtail governor’s emergency powers after ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ spending spree
Less than two weeks after the Florida Trib reported that newly released documents showed the DeSantis administration had burned through more than a million dollars a day on the makeshift tents-and-trailers facility, both chambers of the GOP-controlled Legislature voted to add new limits on the fund.
Posted inElections
Florida lawmakers approve bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote
Critics say the change could wrongfully prevent thousands of eligible Floridians from voting over paperwork technicalities