With approval Friday from the Florida House, Senate President Kathleen Passidomo’s $711 million effort to make housing more affordable for working Floridians is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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The Escambia County School Board on Tuesday voted down a resolution that would have given voters a chance to switch back to an elected superintendent. The motion failed on a 2-3 vote, for now, ending the debate over how the district’s top executive is selected.
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In conjunction with the 309 Punk Project, DIY Pensacola will be hosting the first-ever DIY Film Fest, a screening of low-budget movies and video projects created by regional artists. The festival is an opportunity for people to make movies with their friends or share films they’ve been keeping to themselves.
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Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves opened his weekly news conference with a brief update on the fatal Friday afternoon fire that resulted in the death of one child and injured two others.
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No challenged books were removed from Escambia County schools after a seven-hour meeting Monday night, but were restricted to certain grades.
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Sandra Averhart chats with UWF Director of Government Relations, Rachel Witbracht, about bills moving through the legislature.
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Rep. Dottie Joseph (D-North Miami) said if lawmakers can’t agree on what what defines an adult show, she doesn’t see how police officers charged with enforcing the proposed law will be able to decide."They're just trying to do their best to do their job so they're going to show up and be like, well, it's a drag show so we're just going to have no kids allowed. They're not going to get into this legal analysis," Joseph said.
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Democratic Senator Shevrin Jones says the bills won’t make LGBTQ kids go away.“LGBTQ people will exist. Your children will have to learn how to coexist with those same individuals. Period. So you can legislate this type of stuff all you want, it’s not going anywhere," Jones said.
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The Florida House has passed a bill that would allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit, but it wouldn't allow them to openly carry firearms.
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A Florida law that allows kids who were brought to the US illegally by their parents, to qualify for in-state tuition, could be on the chopping block.
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Education commissioner says barring most instruction on LGBTQ+ topics in all grades brings 'clarity'The Florida Department of Education is proposing a new rule to silence most public school teachers through grade 12 on the topics of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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In a speech to the Canadian Parliament, Biden tried to make up for the delay in his visiting by talking about the close ties between the two neighbors. He even made a joke about Toronto's hockey team.
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The Oscar-winning actress took the stand Friday in Park City for a jury trial that will determine who was at fault in the 2016 crash. Paltrow is seeking $1 in damages.
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After her dad died, Sri Pisharody flew to India with her mother and daughter. She told her daughter to be wary of the rickshaw drivers but then something happened that made her question what she said.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Fall Out Boy members Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz about their new album So Much (For) Stardust.
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President Biden is giving a rare press conference after meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa and addressing Parliament.