On today's episode of leftist Parks and Rec: A St. Pete resident takes short-term rental enforcement into her own hands. axios.com/local/tampa-ba…

Great analysis here by Sommer Brugal: Why Miami's Latino population could swing Florida's abortion vote axios.com/local/miami/20…

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Florida education officials from enforcing a law requiring a transgender teacher to use pronouns that align with her sex assigned at birth, saying the law violated her First Amendment rights.
tallahassee.com/story/news/pol…

Hey CJR or someone: I'd love to see an analysis of how many newspapers have criminal justice reporting jobs that are separate from breaking news. I'm talking covering the *system* not just individual cases.

I had to fight for one at Tampa Bay Times, and now it doesn't exist.

A Florida abortion fund Tampa Bay Abortion Fund says they haven’t seen the same “rage giving” to prepare for the state’s 6-week abortion ban as they saw in June ‘22.

As Kathryn Varn reports, it’s possible the news was overshadowed by the abortion ballot initiative news axios.com/local/tampa-ba…

News of the ballot initiative's approval likely overshadowed the 6-wk ban, a Tampa Bay Abortion Fund board member told me.

'It was personally quite frustrating to see celebration knowing how many people are not going to be able to get an abortion' in the coming months. axios.com/local/tampa-ba…

Just in: Forecasters predict an 'extremely active' Atlantic season with a whopping 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes, 5 major hurricanes of Cat. 3+. Unheard of heat in Atlantic, plus developing El Niño = trouble ahead. axios.com/2024/04/04/hur…

I wrote about The NBC Story axios.com/local/tampa-ba…

Confirmed: FL's two-visit, 24-hour waiting period requirement will continue despite the 6-week ban. That means women would have to attend 2 in-person appointments within two weeks after their first missed period to abort -- a 'virtually impossible' task. orlandosentinel.com/2024/04/02/flo…

The Florida Supreme Court's seismic rulings on abortion unleashed a frenzy of campaigning among Democrats eager to turn the Sunshine State back into the nation's most important battleground.

more Axios: axios.com/2024/04/02/flo…

Thinking today about Pat Dore, the brain behind Florida’s privacy amendment. She saw it as an insurance policy for abortion access if Roe ever fell, and that’s how the court interpreted it for decades — until yesterday. tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…

The most urgent impact of yesterday's trio of FloridaSupremeCourt decisions? A six-week abortion ban will take effect statewide by May 1, gutting access in Florida and across the South.

More than 84,000 abortions were performed in Florida last year. axios.com/local/tampa-ba…

BREAKING: Abortion rights will be on Florida ballots this November. But before that, a ban on the procedure after six weeks will take effect. w/ Yacob Reyes axios.com/local/tampa-ba…

waiting for this is turning me feral

When a cargo ship took out a Baltimore bridge, it also demolished the lies poisoning our immigration debate

The 6 migrant men who died weren't drug dealers or sex traffickers but hero dads filling potholes to give their kids a better life

My new column⬇️ inquirer.com/opinion/baltim…

“This whole process is like a monkey fucking a football.”
That was the reaction by one politico after the Florida Supreme Court failed to rule on whether the constitutional amendments on abortion and the legalization of marijuana would be on the November ballot.

Florida Supreme Court says there are no opinions ready for release this a.m. .... tick, tick, tick .... court has until April 1 to render decisions on 2 initiatives dealing with pot and abortion

FloridaSupremeCourt Florida Constitution: 'The justices shall, subject to their rules of procedure, permit interested persons to be heard on the questions presented and shall render their written opinion no later than April 1 of the year in which the initiative is to be submitted to the voters…

Oh the comedy