Floridians received a second reminder Thursday to brace for a busy 2024 hurricane season, as Colorado State University researchers issued a forecast pointing to warm Atlantic Ocean water that fuels storms. Philip Klotzbach, a senior research scientist in the university’s Department of Atmospheric Science, said…
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Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis suggested the state should have looked again at the prices of three conservation-land deals that totaled $193 million before they were approved Tuesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Cabinet members. Patronis said after the Cabinet meeting that a federal…
Read More Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis Questions Costs Of Land Deals
Florida’s unemployment rate held at 3.1 percent in February for the third consecutive month, even as job losses were posted in many industry sectors. The unemployment rate held as a growing labor force continues to counter the number of people who are out of work.…
Read More Florida Jobless Rate Stays At 3.1 Percent+
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a measure that will ease decades-old regulations on the hours that 16- and 17-year-old Floridians can work. The bill (HB 49), one of 25 signed Friday by DeSantis, was toned down in the waning days of this year’s legislative…
Read More Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill On Teen Work Rules
Florida’s agriculture industry hopes a newly passed bill that would limit local regulations on farmworker housing will bolster efforts to bring in more non-immigrant foreign workers. The bill (SB 1082), which lawmakers unanimously passed, would prevent cities and counties from taking steps to “inhibit” construction…
Read More Bill Could Clear Way For Farmworker Housing
After speaking behind a placard that said “stop illegal immigration,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed three bills that proponents argue will be deterrents to undocumented immigrants coming to the state. The measures, approved during the legislative session that ended last week, seek to crack…
Read More Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Targeting ‘Community’ IDs
Florida pension fund managers are ready to begin the process of dropping investments in China-owned companies, anticipating that Gov. Ron DeSantis will sign a bill directing divestment. The bill (HB 7071), which was unanimously approved last week by the House and Senate, would require the…
Read More State Of Florida Prepares To Drop China Investments
Florida’s unemployment rate stood at 3.1 percent in January, unchanged from a revised December rate, as the workforce continues to steadily grow. The Florida Department of Commerce on Monday estimated 340,000 Floridians were out of work in January, 1,000 more than in December and an…
Read More January Jobless Rate In Florida At 3.1 Percent
A toned-down but still controversial proposal that would loosen decades-old work restrictions for 16- and 17-year-old youths is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis The House and Senate gave final approval to the bill (HB 49) in the final hour of the 2024 legislative session, readying…
Read More Florida Lawmakers Loosen Teen Work Rules
In an issue stemming from complaints about bears in Northwest Florida, the state House on Thursday gave final approval to a bill that would bolster self-defense arguments for people who kill bears on their property. The House on Thursday voted 83-28 to pass the bill…
Read More Florida Gov. DeSantis To Get Bill On Shooting Bears