Florida’s 6-week abortion ban is effective starting today. Doctors worry women would lose access to health care. The Associated Press with David Fischer

NPR investigation finds federal judges failing to disclose free luxury travel - important work ⁦Tom Dreisbach⁩

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Use our migrant child labor data!

More children are crossing the border on their own than ever before, and thousands are ending up doing dangerous, illegal jobs.

We sued the government for a huge trove of data about these kids, and shared it all here: github.com/nytimes/hhs-ch…

Come join ProPublica's South team as a reporter! Awesome job covering a very important region. boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/job…
Based in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama or Tennessee
Expected salary: $90,000 to $130,000.

Some news news … I’m joining the The Associated Press to cover state government and education! 💪🏻

I’ll be moving back home to Tallahassee later this summer. But don’t worry South Florida, I’ll be keeping an eye on you.

🚨 Journalism job alert: Come cover Miami-Dade public schools, the third largest school district in the U.S., for the Miami Herald

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Miami-Dade sheriff's race: 17 candidates. A look at disciplinary and use-of-force histories (via Danny Rivero) wlrn.org/government-pol…

NEW: The Appeal has published the first national database of prison commissary prices. The project covers 46 states, revealing an exploitative system that forces incarcerated people to pay up to 5x the outside price for some items. theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…

My favorite book by a politician, including Grant’s memoirs: Bob Graham’s deadpan recollections of the days he spent working ordinary Florida jobs. The gimmick really worked because Bob really worked. RIP to maybe the greatest Floridian.

Former Florida governor, U.S. Senator Bob Graham died tonight, aged 87.

Graham was a fixture in Florida politics for four decades and ushered in school testing and environmental policies including 'Save Our Everglades.'

By David Smiley:

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When I asked Terence Rock Salt, the Army Corps colonel given the daunting task of planning comprehensive Everglades restoration 30 years ago, who he'd put on his Mount Rushmore for saving the Everglades, his answer came without hesitation: Bob Graham. (photo via Bob Graham Center ).

Her tenure ended with a shot at the two commissioners who wanted her out.

Victoria Méndez has been removed. George Wysong will replace her for two weeks. She will remain on as an advisor until June.

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It's official: Victoria Mendez has been voted out as City Attorney, effective immediately. She will serve in an advisory role until June 11.

She gave a tearful goodbye, and accused the commissioners who pushed for her termination of being backed by 'serial litigators'

New College President Richard Corcoran gets $200K bonus after first year on top of his base salary of $699,000, a sum that previously made him one of the state’s highest paid university presidents. The school has < 800 students.
⁦Divya Kumar⁩ tampabay.com/news/education…

NEW: Florida's insurance market is full of 'low quality' companies with financial ratings that wouldn't normally pass muster with Fannie/Freddie.

That's the conclusion by researchers at Harvard, Columbia and the Federal Reserve Board:

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NEW from WUSF Public Health Watch Stephanie Colombini Kim Krisberg - Thousands die from opioid overdoses in Florida each year. Could Medicaid expansion save lives? wusf.org/health-news-fl…

Marley Price's boyfriend likes to play video games

She prefers to find potentially illegal short term rentals in St. Petersburg & report them to code enforcement

Since Feb, she's filed 108 complaints. 88 were in violation. Her tweet about it went viral

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West Palm Beach has a 'public realm director' for downtown, and that's a beautiful thing.

'It is extremely important to be able to have a place to go where it is not around drinking or spending money or things that are not only consumeristic and materialistic.'

.Broward Schools Board member Torey Alston has proposed rescinding the pay raises teachers were approved in Feb. This should be interesting since I think about 75-80% of the money has already been paid out to teachers, both in current and retroactive pay. sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/10/bro…

🌑 'For most people, it's a once in a generation experience. It really humbles us as humans. It shows how insignificant we are in the scheme of things.'
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