Michael Moline

Gov. Ron DeSantis warned residents Sunday to complete preparations for the arrival of Tropical Storm Debby, which has been forecast to hit the Big Bend area Monday morning with hurricane-force winds. “We are gonna face impacts in this state,” he said during a 7:30 a.m. briefing from the Florida Emergency Operations Center on Tallahassee’s south […]

The ACLU of Florida and Southern Legal Counsel filed a joint lawsuit Thursday against the Agency for Health Care Administration, seeking an order for it to cease efforts on its agency website and other media to persuade voters to oppose Amendment 4. That’s the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot to restore the abortion […]

Update: The DeSantis administration has released details about the resources it’s sending to North Carolina and Tennessee, where the Helene storm system has caused widespread flood damage. There’ll be two airborne Florida State Guard search and rescue teams each comprising a pilot and eight crew, plus two similar units from Florida National Guard flying Chinook […]

Florida state flags will fly at half-staff Friday in memory of three servicemembers killed in a fatal shooting attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola by a member of the Saudi Arabian Air Force on Dec. 6, 2019, Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered Thursday. “On December 6, 2019, a terrorist at Naval Air Station Pensacola took the […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency ahead of the winter storm forecast to bring snow and ice storms to North Florida this week “to protect the communities, critical infrastructure, and general welfare of Florida.” The order empowers the Division of Emergency Management to coordinate the state and local response to the weather, […]

Legislative leaders have postponed committee hearings scheduled for this week because of the impending winter storm that threatens to create hazardous travel conditions. The hearings will be rescheduled for next week, coinciding with a special session that Gov. Ron DeSantis has ordered to begin on Monday, Jan. 27, to take up an immigration crackdown and […]

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has asked the Florida Supreme Court to reinstate his defamation lawsuit against anti-Trump political operative Rick Wilson over comments linking him to Vladimir Putin and the QAnon conspiracy theory. A Sarasota state trial ruled the comments were protected by the First Amendment, and the Florida Second District Court of […]

The president of the Florida Senate may have closed the door on major permanent state tax cuts this year, warning it would be unwise to take such a step without further study. At the very least, he’s added a new wrinkle to an emerging confrontation between Gov. Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Daniel Perez that could […]

The Florida Supreme Court has rejected former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s attempt to reinstate his $50 million defamation claim against Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson over comments linking Flynn to Vladimir Putin and the QAnon conspiracy theory. “This cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court on jurisdictional briefs and portions of the record deemed […]

A federal appeals court has reinstated a First Amendment lawsuit filed by a pastor and community activist against then-Manatee County school Superintendent Cynthia Saunders after he was kicked out of a board meeting in 2019. A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Friday upheld dismissals of Arthur Huggins’ complaints […]