Senate Bill 620 allowed any business operating in Florida for at least three years to claim legal damages if a county or city enacts or amends a provision that causes a 15% hit to a company’s profits.

The measure closes the so-called boyfriend loophole in domestic violence law, which keeps guns away from unmarried dating partners convicted of abuse.

City commissioners voted 4-1 to enact impact fees similar to those suggested in a study by Tindale-Oliver & Associates in 2011.

According to the Herald Tribune, the AFL-CIO endorsed Crist on Friday in his race in the Democratic primary against Florida Commissioner of Agriculture, Democrat Nikki Fried.

Marco La Manno was able to speak to Congressman Crist recently about one of the biggest issues in Florida: the home insurance crisis.

The payment is expected to be one of the final expenses the county has to approve in its effort to close the former phosphate facility.

Many of Florida's most popular beaches and parks may choose to no longer allow smoking.

The county's school board signed off on a new contract with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees to increase starting pay to at least 15 dollars an hour.

The deadline to qualify to run was Friday at noon, and Ziegler did not qualify.

Under state law, if Gruters has no opponent in the general election and the primary would end up deciding the race, Democrats can vote in his primary.

So far, Kruse received a $155 fine, a careless driving citation, and has to attend a four hour traffic school course.

Commissioner Nikki Fried says Florida's government has failed on the issue of affordable housing.

Angelina Colonneso says she has "grave concerns" about Hopes' performance, saying Hopes has not communicated with her office on multiple projects and is concerned about his use of money.

Giffords is an organization led by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who was shot a decade ago.

Fried wants the Florida delegation on this committee to keep a cannabis banking provision in the bill.

In this interview, we hear why real estate loves DeSantis and how or if this will affect the special session on Florida's home insurance crisis.

'Ron Be Gone,' as the name states, wants Ron DeSantis gone.

With the midterm elections one day away Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida are getting proactive by urging residents to vote.

TALLAHASSEE – The nearly year–long gap in background checks for concealed carry permits under Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam’s watch is now being reviewed. The audit is being done by the state’s auditor general, and Putnam’s office confirmed that the audit has started. In fact, the review began before the security snafu was made public in […]
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SARASOTA – North Port City Clerk Patsy Adkins has given her 30 day resignation notice, ending a 15–year career with the city. Adkins has spent the two most recent of those 15 years as the city clerk. She had come under scrutiny recently both over the way she managed the clerk’s office and a backlog […]
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SARASOTA – A know your rights event put on by Black Lives Matter touched on topics of what to do when stopped by the police, race relations, and bail reform. 2015 report from the New York Times says of the people currently locked up in this country, 60 percent haven’t been convicted of anything. Close […]
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SARASOTA – In this edition of Political Corner, SNN’s Grant Boxleitner and Sarasota County Republican Party Vice Chair Jack Brill discuss the upcoming GOP straw poll and rally. The much-anticipated event will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., July 28 at Robarts Arena, featuring candidates up and down the Republican ticket for the […]
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SARASOTA – Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum, was in Sarasota Wednesday campaigning for the Democratic nomination for governor. He’s campaigning the old fashioned way, talking to residents where they’re comfortable, namely local barbershops. Gillum, who is African–American, visited three black–owned barbershops on the Suncoast yesterday in less than two hours. He also hopes stops like those […]
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TALLAHASSEE – A school program designed to help bullied students moves forward. The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday unanimously approved a rule for a controversial new program that will let bullied students transfer to private schools. Hope scholarships will allow students who are victims of bullying or other violence to receive public funding to […]
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MANATEE COUNTY – “Being the superintendent for the school district of Manatee County has been an amazing opportunity. Situations where you feel like ‘oh I will never experience that’ somehow as Superintendent you seem to experience those situations,” As of this week, Dr. Diana Greene, the first African American female to serve as superintendent in […]
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