December 13, 2023 Florida facing federal lawsuits: Mom for transgender treatment, teachers over personal pronoun law Three teachers in Florida filed a federal lawsuit over a state law on titles and pronouns in schools, and a trial is underway over restricting treatment for transgender people with puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
November 27, 2023 Lawmaker wants to ban Florida, a former slave state, from paying reparations to descendants of slaves A lawmaker in Florida wants to make sure no government money in the former Confederate state goes to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves.
November 17, 2023 DeSantis administration loses another round on drag shows, sued over banning Students for Justice in Palestine Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration are facing two challenges and they’re not related to his presidential campaign.
March 6, 2023 Florida rep files bills ‘requiring bloggers to register,’ helping politicians sue media The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says the government can’t abridge the freedom of speech or of the press, but a state senator in Florida submitted a bill that could do exactly that.
August 4, 2022 DeSantis suspends Hillsborough state attorney who ‘put himself above the law’ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Hillsborough County state attorney Andrew Warren, claiming Warren “put himself above the law” by deciding which laws he would uphold and prosecute, and which he would not.
June 24, 2022 Abortion ruling divisive in South Florida, just as the issue had been It’s either “righting a grievous wrong” or it’s “a tragic day,” depending how one feels about women’s abortion rights.
June 17, 2022 War of words erupts between Florida and White House over vaccines for kids Florida’s stance toward Covid-19 vaccines for children stirred up a war of words with the White House.
June 9, 2022 Beyond the U.S. Capitol doors – window, in one case – and the Florida rioters’ sentences Authorities say many of the Jan. 6 riot suspects ended up in handcuffs after friends and coworkers turned them in. Many also appeared in social media photos of the spectacle.
April 4, 2022 New York City using billboards to take shot at Florida, DeSantis over school controversy With a set of five billboards, New York City is taking on Florida and the subject matter is the controversial school law Gov. Ron DeSantis signed last week.
March 31, 2022 Ferriters claim kids hacked their email, want that info kept out of their abuse trial The couple in Jupiter charged with aggravated child abuse for keeping their teenage son in a box in their garage are claiming one or more of their children hacked their email and that could affect their trial.
March 22, 2020 Coronavirus doesn’t favor any group over another, so we shouldn’t with money I had several blog posts half-written and want to finish them, but I’ve been too busy with other things, including reconstructing posts in this…
May 29, 2019 Would you want Mueller’s words about Trump said about you? Wednesday, special counsel Robert Mueller spoke out for the first time, saying he was resigning and closing down the special counsel’s office. His investigation,…
September 23, 2018 Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, justice and becoming a Justice President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be giving the Senate Judiciary Committee calendars from 1982 to back up his continued denial of…
May 2, 2018 In defense of Emma González, not that she needs it but deserves it I have a lot more on Marjory Stoneman Douglas hero Emma González, not a hero for surviving but for her activism after. She has…
March 30, 2018 Tiffany Trump’s trouble, what unions could do to Amazon and the media It’s nice when Americans exercise their First Amendment rights (freedom of religion, speech, the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and…
March 29, 2018 Who Trump hates more, Facebook or Amazon? Oh, and Stormy Daniels’ motion to make him speak! OK. Let’s get this right. Lawmakers and many Americans are angry about Facebook and how it handled 50 million users’ people’s data, but President Trump really hates Amazon.