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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office late Wednesday pumped up arguments against a proposed constitutional amendment that would authorize recreational use of marijuana, saying the measure “misleads” voters in a way to benefit the state’s largest medical-marijuana operator, Trulieve.
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The Christian & Missionary Alliance Foundation, Inc. of Fort Myers., which founded the Shell Point Retirement Community in Lee County in 1968 as a nonprofit ministry, has agreed to pay the United States $250,000 to resolve allegations that the Foundation violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by failing to maintain records required by the CSA.
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One of the vetoed bills (HB 605) would have revised a law that prohibits adults from having criminal records expunged if they had records expunged as juveniles.
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A $13.1 million bridge loan has been awarded to the City of Sanibel through the Local Government Emergency Bridge Loan Program. The program is administered by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to support government operations that may have been impacted by hurricanes Ian or Nicole. These funds bridge the gap for local governments while their revenues recover after a natural disaster.
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Activities across Florida Thursday as part of a nationwide general strike among Latinos and their allies dubbed “Un Día Sin Inmigrantes” — A Day Without Immigrants — included a large protest march through downtown Fort Myers streets and in Orlando.
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Nearly $15 million of $60 million in awards through the Broadband Opportunity Program to expand broadband Internet access in Florida’s unserved communities will go to several areas in Southwest Florida.
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There is a newly formed group called Floridians for Democracy — still in its infancy — that’s being created by southwest Floridians in response to what they say are growing autocratic trends here in Florida, and more broadly across the United States. We spoke with its co-founder and three of its founding members.
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The computer crashed at the Florida motor vehicle department.
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As Florida Gulf Coast University prepares to usher in a new era with President-elect Aysegul Timur, one member of the state university system’s Board of Governors suggested Wednesday that Timur get a “shorter contract” when she steps into the role.After a more than year-long search for a successor to retiring President Mike Martin, the FGCU Board of Trustees last week voted 7-6 to tap Timur for the job.
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Trump himself described the experience as “SURREAL” as he traveled from Trump Tower to a lower Manhattan courtroom, where he was to face a judge as the first former president in American history to be criminally prosecuted.