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From leaf blowers, commercial driver’s licenses, and door-to-door salesmen, this year’s Florida farm bill addresses a range of issues. The omnibus 2026 Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services bill passed its first committee stop, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, on Tuesday. SB 290 is sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Keith Truenow, a Republican from Tavares […]

A House comittee on Tuesday voted 14-6 to pass a bill that allows wrongful death lawsuits for the loss of developing fetuses, with a leading proponent claiming the legislation should be a harbinger of things to come for the anti-abortion movement in Florida. “I want to emphasize to this committee that this bill should be […]

When the longtime superintendent of the Washington State School for the Blind resigned this summer, he blamed harassment from a former employee. An investigative report, obtained via public records request, concluded Scott McCallum himself sexually harassed a female colleague during his final years on the job. The investigation, completed in mid-May, found McCallum hugged a […]

How AI is used in songwriting and fashion. Plus, a warning on how it’s used in toys.

Two attorneys and four expert witnesses at Dole Institute explore replacing Electoral College in election of U.S. presidents with a national popular vote.

Fears of decimated fire departments dominated Tuesday’s Florida House committee hearing on proposals to slash property taxes. Democrats in the House State Affairs Committee joined pro-local groups and a small-town fire chief in raising concern that House Republicans’ four proposed resolutions to amend the state Constitution would starve fire departments and emergency management services. Because […]

Health care providers and insurers in Florida could opt out of providing or paying for health care services, such as abortion, that violate their conscience and under a 2023 state law, they cannot be sued in court for denying the care based on their beliefs. A pair of northeast Florida Republicans have filed bills that […]

A measure (HB 133) that would lower the age to purchase a long gun in Florida from 21 to 18 years old passed its second and final committee in the state House on Tuesday and will hit the floor when the 2026 session opens, where for the fourth year in a row it is expected […]

Tracy Brabin talks to Radio Leeds about the Budget, COP30 and taxing tourists.

TOPEKA — Tom Witt said he began fielding calls about 15 minutes after Kansas Reflector published a story on Democratic Sen. Mary Ware’s retirement from the Legislature. Witt, best known as a former executive director of Equality Kansas, walked away from the Statehouse in 2022 after 18 years of fiercely guarding LGBTQ+ rights. He has […]

Kansas' individual income tax revenue is $173 million higher than at this time in 2024, but sagging retail sales and corporate income taxes are a worry.

As of late last year, more than 1,300 children torn from their parents’ arms at the U.S.–Mexico border from 2017 to 2021 had not been reunited with their parents. This figure represents nearly a third of the 4,600 children forcibly separated from their families. Human rights organizations described this as potentially a form of torture, […]