After serving on the Suwannee County School Board unopposed for 12 years, incumbent Ronald White is facing his first opponent in the 2026 election.
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Union School Board District 1: Who are Calvin Peterson and Christopher Hodgson?
Union School Board District 1 race focuses on declining enrollment, student proficiency and library books.
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Two candidates vie for Taylor County School Board’s District 1 seat
Taylor County has three School Board seats on the ballot this year, but only one race will actually be decided by voters: incumbent Bonnie Sue Agner is being challenged by Liddie Ann Davis for the District 1 seat.
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Uncontested but not unchallenged: Alva Swafford Smith seeks a final term on the Leon school board
For the first time in her time on the Leon County School Board, Alva Swafford Smith won’t face a real opponent in November. Smith, the District 1 incumbent, qualified in June with only a write-in challenger, all but assuring her a new term she says will be her last.
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Incumbent Sammy McCoy faces retired educator Menieca Mathis Kennedy in Hamilton County School Board District 5 race
As Hamilton County schools address limited resources and low academic performance, voters will choose between a two-term school board member and a retired educator with 29 years of classroom experience.
Incumbent Sammy McCoy and Menieca Mathis Kennedy are the only candidates in the District 5 race, to be decided on Aug. 18.
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Florida accelerates its pace of executions, carrying out two in one day
Gov. Ron DeSantis, who broke national records last year with 19 executions, is racing to exceed that total as he finishes out his last year in office.
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Florida’s most polluted river cleaned up. A company could dump wastewater into it again
At the request of a company owned by one of America’s wealthiest families, state regulators are paving the way for wastewater to flow back into the Fenholloway River
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As UF considers buzz sawing 1,000 trees, critics feel stumped, muted
The University of Florida is planning to demolish an on-campus conservation area known as Graham Woods — a project that would chop down roughly 1,000 trees in a mini-forest favored by nature lovers and bicyclists.