Florida’s Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday starts Friday
Friday begins one of the biggest retailing breaks for shoppers in the entire year as the “Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday” gets underway across Florida. The Sales Tax Holiday ahead of…
A Revolutionary Way to End the Incarceration of Girls
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last fall, retired Judge Karen Radius leaned on her…
ICE Plans to Build More Tent Jails for Immigrants. What Could Go Wrong?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Tent City jail in Phoenix in 2012Charlie Riedel, File/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free…
Elon Musk Has Turned Off Many Liberals to Electric Vehicles—and Not Just Teslas
President Donald Trump, right, and Elon Musk attend a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House in May. Evan Vucci/AP Get your news from a source that’s…
Susie Wiles will share Florida Freedom Forum with top GOP levels in Orlando
The top Republicans in Florida and Washington — a group that currently overlaps significantly —will convene in Orlando on Saturday. The Florida Freedom Forum, a major fundraiser for the Republican…
The Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security has a (not so) new director
The state agency charged with monitoring election fraud in Florida has new leadership. Jillian Pratt, a former assistant general counsel in the Florida Department of State, was appointed director of…
‘Courage and conviction’: Rick Scott formally endorses Byron Donalds for Governor
The former Governor lined up behind his fellow Neapolitan a day before both take the stage at a Republican event in Orlando. Another prominent voice in Florida politics just lined…
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 8.1.25
Good Friday morning. Another prominent voice in Florida politics just lined up behind U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds’ run for Governor. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, who served two terms as Governor…
What we know about the Trump-Epstein falling out
President Donald Trump’s friendship with financier and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is well documented. But its rupture? Not so much. It ended in 2004. Or 2007. Or maybe some…
AMS makes another push for a public charter school in Fort Smith
Tempe, Ariz.-based Academies of Math & Science (AMS) is again seeking to open a K-8-grade public enrollment school in Fort Smith that could open in 2026 or 2027 and have…