Florida/National News
(National News of Interest to
Floridians)
Index of Stories
2025-2024
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Florida News 2025
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April 5, 2025 10:45 pm | 5 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – North Florida Water Utilities
Authority (NFWUA) met this past Wednesday morning to
hear a bunch of presentations and interview the
applicants for the executive director position of the
Authority.
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April 2, 2025 8:10 am | 3 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The North Florida Water Utilities
Authority (NFWUA) finally has applicants for the
position of executive director. None of the candidates
meet the listed minimum qualifications.
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March 19, 2025
4:30 pm | 5 min read
LAKE CITY, FL – On March 11, 2023, Florida
Gateway College President Larry Barrett slapped
down Lake City Councilman Ricky Jernigan,
demanding a retraction for an honest mistake he
made about FGC enrollment. There is more here
than meets the eye.
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March 10, 2025
1:05 pm | 2 min read
Columbia County, FL – Florida legend
Chris Doolin made his yearly pilgrimage to
Lake City to update the twelve county
members of the North Central Florida
Regional Planning Council on this year’s
[2025] legislative session in Tallahassee.
Chris Doolin is the decades-long
lobbyist/consultant for both the
Small County Coalition and the
Small School District Council Consortium.
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February 14, 2025
6:20 am
COLUMBIA
COUNTY, FL – Last night, Florida Gateway
President Larry Barrett received the first Gulf
Sturgeon Award from the Suwannee River Water
Management District. Troy Roberts, Chief of
Communications and Outreach at the District,
expressed gratitude to the College for hosting
and supporting the North Florida Water Resource
Symposium on January 28.
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Florida News 2024
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Dec. 11, 2024
5:25 pm | 2 min read
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Yesterday, Governor Ron
DeSantis announced record-breaking
visitation numbers in 2023. Tourists coming
to Florida spent a record $131 billion in
the state. This is an increase of 5% over
2022, resulting in $36.9 billion in local,
state, and federal tax revenue. Florida
posted the highest visitation numbers in
state history. “Florida can’t be beat,” said Governor
DeSantis. “I’m proud of this new record set
for the state. Everyone loves the Free State
of Florida.”
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Food for Thought on Thanksgiving
Nov. 28, 2021 7:00 am | 4 min read
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Overlooking the chilly
waters of Plymouth Bay, about three dozen
tourists swarmed a park ranger as he
recounted the history of Plymouth Rock — the
famous symbol of the arrival of the Pilgrims
here four centuries ago.
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Nov.
22, 2024 6:00 am | 2 min read
FLORIDA –
A recent study from Florida Atlantic
University highlights a concerning rise in
alcohol-related deaths across the United
States, with mortality rates nearly doubling
between 1999 and 2020.
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July 17, 2024
11:59 pm | 3 min read
FLORIDA – If you blinked, you might have
missed the release of the 1,000th
conservation-bred Florida grasshopper sparrow
into the wild, marking a major milestone for one
of North America’s most endangered birds.
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Florida Judge acceptes long-shot
argument that special counsel Jack Smith was
improperly appointed.
July 12 2024
5:45 pm |
5 min read
FLORIDA – A judge on Monday dismissed the
federal indictment against former president Donald
Trump on charges of mishandling classified
documents — his second seismic legal victory in
less than a month, following a historic win
before the Supreme Court.
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July 8, 2024
11:55 am| 3 min read
COLUMBIA
COUNTY, FL – Meridian CEO Don Savoie is making a
mysterious appearance at the Lake Shore Hospital
Authority Governor’s Board this evening.
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July 1, 2024 3:00
pm | 2 min read
FLORIDA – For July 4, nearly 4.5 million
Floridians are expected to travel more than 50
miles from home; nationwide, nearly 71 million
will hit the road. Many will not buckle up.
Some, along with family members and friends,
will needlessly die.
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Scott Koons was advised he
was violating the law
June 27, 2024
8:55 am | 4 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Following Florida’s
Open Meeting Laws and opinions of the Florida
Attorney General are not the strong suit of
Scott Koons, the Executive Director of the North
Central Florida Regional Planning Council
(NCFRPC).
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June 25, 2024
7:50 pm | 6 min read
ALACHUA, FL – On Friday, June 21, 2024,
CareerSource North Central Florida (CSNCFL) met
with members of the Alachua County Commission to
discuss the progress of the state-mandated
consolidation of the CareerSource workforce
boards of Region 9 (Alachua, Bradford) with
Region 7 (Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Union).
There was some light at the end of the
consolidation tunnel.
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June 19, 2024
8:15 am | 3 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – During the Florida
Gateway (FGC) College Budget Work Shop last
Thursday (June 13), long time board member
Suzanne Norris brought up the subject of
scholarships at FGC.
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June 12, 2024
8:10 am | 3 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – CareerSource Florida
Crown, a rogue special district under
investigation by FloridaCommerce (the old Dept.
of Commerce), once again cannot perform the
simple task of noticing its public meetings.
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May 31, 2024 8:45 am | 8 min read
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON – Jurors in New York state court
on Thursday found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony
counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush
money payments to a porn star, ultimately to influence
the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
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Another DeSantis Sunshine
Dispute
June 29, 2024 10:30 am | 3 min read
A case is pending at the 1st District
Court of Appeal contesting the secrecy
of DeSantis’ method of judicial
selection. Stripped of all its
constitutional and statutory
considerations, the issue between the
governor and a citizen identified only
as “J. Doe” is whether DeSantis can
assert executive privilege to withhold
clearly public information just because
he feels like it.
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April 30,
2024 3:30 am | 7 min read
TALLAHASSEE, FL – On April 19, the
Florida Commission on Ethics voted
4-1 to erase a $1,500 fine assessed
against one of its own, Commissioner
Freddie Figgers. The Commission
avoided a requirement that it
investigate Figgers to determine
whether his failure to file was
willful. The penalty for willfully
failing to file disclosure is
removal from public office.
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April 18,
2024 8:05 am | 3 min read
FLORIDA
– Florida’s bat maternity season, the
time when most of our state’s native and
beneficial bats give birth and raise
their young, began on April 16 and lasts
until August 14 each year. During bat
maternity season, it is illegal to block
bats from their roosts. This prevents
flightless young from being trapped
inside structures, which isn't good for
people or bats.
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April 16,
2024 6:30 am | 7 min read
Tallahassee –
Florida's ethically challenged Commission on
Ethics is poised to waive a $1,500 fine for
one of its commissioners. The commission
would give a colleague a free pass.
The
appearance of a conflict is obvious, and
the conflict is real.
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April 12, 2024
3:30 pm | 11 min read
ALACHUA COUNTY, FL – This week, the
CareerSource Florida Crown (Region 7) saga moved
from Columbia County to Alachua County (Region
9). A series of events involving Florida Crown
(financial investigations, a mutiny by the
executive director and his staff, sexual
harassment redefined, and state agencies that
finally said ‘no mas’ and ordered FL Crown to
turn over its finances to District 9 (Alachua)),
put some of the problems of FL Crown in the lap
of CareerSource North Central Florida, aka,
Alachua County.
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April 7, 2024
4:30 pm | 14 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The top management at
CareerSource Florida Crown again demonstrated
its dysfunctionality this past Wednesday when
the organization's IT Director, Ron Jones,
couldn't get its special meeting to kick off on
time.
Attendees from FloridaCommerce, CareerSource
Florida, board members, and members of the
public logged into the meeting. Then, the
Florida Crown IT broke down and couldn’t get the
meeting running.
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March 28, 2024
2:00 pm | 11 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA –
The recent troubles at CareerSource
Florida Crown: bookkeeping issues;
website out of compliance with its
agreement with the state; failure to
properly notice meetings and an illegal
walkout of the executive director along
with the entire administrative staff
would have some Florida Crown defenders
calling them "technical" issues.
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March 25, 2024
7:00 am | 2 min read
FLORIDA –
As the nation observes National Medal of
Honor Day, facilities in Florida and
Texas are under construction to serve as
perpetual memorials commemorating the
heroic actions of recipients for their
valor and sacrifice.
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March 18, 2024
7:45 am | 5 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA – CareerSource FL
Crown Executive Director Robert Jones led FL
Crown staff walkout, shutting down the
administrative functions of the four-county
workforce special district – Columbia, Dixie,
Gilchrist, Union.
As reported earlier, on Monday,
March 11, 2024, the entire administrative staff
followed Executive Director Robert Jones out the
door.
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March 12, 2024
2:00 pm | 5 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA – The
three-year-long investigation into CareerSource
Florida Crown has culminated in the mass
resignation of Florida Crown's Executive
Director Robert Jones, the Director of Finance
Jeff Geering, the IT/Program Services Director
Ron Jones, and the two other office staff
members.
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March 6, 2024
11:30 am | 4 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA – CareerSource
Florida Crown is under investigation for
financial improprieties going back three
fiscal years: 2020, 2021, and 2022.
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Feb. 23, 2024
6:00 am | 2 min read
FLORIDA –
The Florida House is expected to follow the
Senate's lead by signing off on an initiative to
pour millions into the state's health care
industry, including investments in
mental health services.
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Feb. 22, 2024 9:30 am | 5 min read
NATIONAL – Donald Trump is the frontrunner
for the Republican nomination for president in
2024. President Biden is the incumbent. With two
likely candidates who have served in the White
House, 2024 presents the possibility of 2
candidates having detailed records for
comparison.
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Jan. 27, 2024 7:15 am | 2 min read
SARASOTA – Floridians Protecting Freedom has
received notification from the Florida Division
of Elections that its initiative, giving
Floridians the chance to vote to limit
government interference with abortion, will
officially be Amendment 4 on the 2024 General
Election ballot, pending Supreme Court review.
On January 26, the Florida Division of Elections
verified 993,387 petitions submitted by the
campaign, more than 100,000 more than the
891,523 needed by February 1, 2024.
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Jan. 15, 2024 5:00 am | 5 min read
Martin Luther King dreamt that all inhabitants of the
United States would be judged by their personal
qualities and not by the color of their skin. In April
1968 he was murdered by a white racist. Four years
earlier, he had received the Peace Prize for his
nonviolent campaign against racism.
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Jan. 13, 2024
12:55 pm | 10 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Florida Gateway College
(FGC), the community college of Baker, Columbia,
Dixie, Gilchrist, and Union counties, has been
talking about forming a charter school since
February 2022. This past Thursday's FCG Board
meeting showed that not only has the College
been keeping the public out of the loop, but
Board members were also hazy about what the
College was up to.
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Jan. 10, 2024 1:00 pm | 2 min read
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida Legislature
Democratic leaders Representative Fentrice
Driskell and Senator Lauren Book knocked
down Governor Ron DeSantis during their
rebuttals of the State of the State address
Tuesday.
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Florida News 2023
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Dec. 28,
2023 09:35 am | 2 min read
FLORIDA –
Wildlife experts are spotlighting the Rice's
whale, also known as the Gulf of Mexico
Whale, which was classified as its own
species in 2021, as one of many reasons to
preserve the Endangered
Species Act on its 50th
anniversary.
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Dec. 14, 2023 9:45 am | 3 min read
TALLAHASSEE, FL — Wednesday, three Florida
educators filed a lawsuit
challenging Florida Statute § 1000.071(3)
(2023) (“Subsection 3”), an anti-LGBTQ+
statute that targets Florida’s transgender
and nonbinary teachers for being themselves
at work. By barring transgender and
nonbinary teachers from using titles and
pronouns that express their gender
identities and by threatening to decertify
and fire teachers who do so, Subsection 3
unlawfully discriminates based on sex. The
statute restrains their speech in violation
of the U.S. Constitution and civil rights
statutes.
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Dec. 12, 2023 3:10 pm | 5 min read
Republicans cast themselves as the party of piety,
traditional gender roles, and family values. This is at odds with reality.
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Dec.
7, 2023 7:00 am | 2 min read
FLORIDA –
Another controversial move in Florida's
education system is a proposal to drop
sociology, the study of social life and the
causes and consequences of human behavior,
as part of their general education
requirement for public college students.
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November 24, 2023
9 pm | 9 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – During the November
Lake Shore Hospital Authority (LSHA)
Governor's Board meeting, after a year of
foot dragging by the Authority and, most
recently, Meridian, Meridian’s quality of
care finally became an issue.
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The actual history of what happened in
1621 bears little resemblance to what most
Americans are taught.
Reposted November 22, 2023 | First Posted November 24,
2021
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Overlooking the chilly
waters of Plymouth Bay, about three dozen
tourists swarmed a park ranger as he
recounted the history of Plymouth Rock — the
famous symbol of the arrival of the Pilgrims
here four centuries ago.
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October 9,
2023 10:45 pm | 4 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
The North Florida Regional Water Supply
Plan (the east side of the Suwannee
River Water Management District and the
top half of the St. Johns River Water
Management District) is being updated.
The Plan focuses on the sustainability
of resources. It is just a plan, and
water users "are not required to
implement" any options identified in the
Plan.
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Sept. 20, 2023
5:55 pm | 3 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Last Thursday, the
Florida Gateway College Women's Flag
Football team – the Timberwolves – came face
to face with the governor’s FGC College
Board of Trustees. In just its second year
of competition, FGC’s Timberwolves Flag
Football team became the first-ever National
Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA)
champions.
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FL
reported the state's
pregnancy-related mortality rate has
increased every year since 2016.
August 27, 2023
11:15 am | 3 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
Black, Hispanic, and multiracial women
are more likely to be mistreated during
pregnancy and delivery than other women.
The CDC says, “Moms deserve respectful
and equal maternity care.”
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August 24, 2023
7:55 am | 2 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
Tonight, Lake City’s Community College, FGC,
is holding its 35 annual college night. The
event was announced to the media on August
21 via press release, only 3 days ago.
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August 15, 2023
3:00 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Last week, the
Governor's Florida Gateway College Board
kept College President Larry Barrett the
highest-paid public employee in Columbia
County. Adding the cost of benefits to
President Barrett’s new $290,000 salary
brings the value of his total package to
$401,000, of which $225,000 comes from
the Florida Department of Education and
the balance from tuition.
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August 11, 2023
06:20 am
COLUMBIA
COUNTY, FL – Florida Gateway College is
offering free childcare services for FGC
students, faculty, and staff beginning
this fall.
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August 8,
2023 7:53 am | 5 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Earlier this year,
the Suwannee River Water Management District
(SRWMD) updated its Education Reimbursement
Policy and announced that Kristin Thompson
was attending St. Leo University in pursuit
of her Masters of Business Administration
(MBA) postgraduate advanced degree. In May
of this year, Ms. Thompson earned her MBA.
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July 29,
2023 11:00 am | 4 min read
FLORIDA – Official data released
yesterday by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) show that Florida’s
Medicaid redetermination process, in the
month following the end of federal
“continuous coverage” provisions, resulted
in 249,427 Floridians being disenrolled from
Medicaid.
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July 27,
2023 11:50 am | 4 min read COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The North Central
Floirda Regional Planning Council (NCFRPC) is one of
ten planning councils in Florida. Of the 12
member counties in the region, only one is
not what has been known as a
Rural Area of
Critical Economic Concern or RACEC* –
Alachua County. Recently, the Council’s
Executive Director has intentionally refused
to keep the Council meeting calendar
up-to-date, and the new Council Chairwoman
has rewritten the Council rules to not allow
questions from the public.
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July 13,
2023 1:50 pm | 11 min read
FLORIDA/NATIONAL
– While Florida has long been treated as a
punchline to a national joke about
regressive politics, “this is about to be
the entire country’s problem,” warned Lorna
Bracewell, women’s, gender and sexuality
studies program coordinator and an associate
professor of political science at Flagler
College in St. Augustine. “Every
Republican-dominated state legislature is
watching closely what is happening in
Florida.”
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July 7,
2023 6:20 pm | 2 min read
FLORIDA –
With the rising costs of dental
procedures in the United States, many
patients are turning to neighboring
countries like Mexico to get care at
significantly lower prices. Dental care
in the U.S. can have a hefty price tag,
especially for complex procedures like
dental implants, orthodontics, and
cosmetic dentistry.
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June 16,
2023 11:50 am | 3 min read
FLORIDA – On
Thursday Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s
$117 billion spending plan. There’s $12 million to continue the
flights carrying migrants from border states
to blue jurisdictions. $25 million was set
aside to remake New College, a small liberal
arts college on Florida’s west coast, into a
new model for a conservative public
university. The budget also factors in tax
breaks on baby care products like diapers
and a multi-billion dollar expansion of
school choice.
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June 15,
2023 01:45 am | 4 min read
FLORIDA –
Florida ranks 31st in child well-being,
according to the 2023 KIDS COUNT® Data
Book, a 50-state report of recent
household data developed by the Annie E.
Casey Foundation analyzing how children
and families are faring. Our country’s
lack of affordable and accessible child
care short-changes children and causes
parents in Florida to frequently miss
work or quit their jobs. Those who can
find care are paying dearly for it.
These child care challenges cost the
American economy billions of dollars.
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May 28, 2023
05:15 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
Millions of Americans celebrate Memorial Day,
honoring the memory of those service members who
have been lost. It is also important to
recognize the millions of veterans who made it
home and struggle with substance use, mental
health disorders, or suicidal ideation.
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May 25, 2023
10:03 am | 4 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Yesterday morning in
Lake City, a group of representatives of North
Florida counties met for an hour to discuss the
idea of working together to form a regional
utility consortium. North Florida Professional
Services President Greg Bailey thought of and
organized the meeting.
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May 19,
2023 01:40 pm | 2 min read
FLORIDA –
Following what's described as a "hostile
takeover" by right-wing conservatives at
the progressive New College of Florida,
students and prospective graduates are
protesting daily.
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May 10,
2023 01:50 pm | 2 min read
FLORIDA –
On May 5, 2023, the Florida Legislature
voted on the state budget. Hardly
noticed in the record $117 billion
budget was $2 million in recurring
funding to promote oral health
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May 6, 2023
1:35 pm | 3 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – HCA's (Hospital
Corporation of America) Lake City Hospital, the
old LCMC, invested $36 mil in expanding its
emergency room. The addition adds 18 new private
emergency room beds.
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April 28, 2023 11:20 am
MACCLENNY, FLORIDA – The Woman’s Club of
Macclenny is sponsoring its 2nd Annual
Community Health Fair tomorrow - Saturday,
April 29, from 9 am to 3 pm at the Baker
County Fair Grounds. The Community Health
Fair is a family-friendly event with items
of interest for those from four to one
hundred.
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April 25,
2023 12:05 pm
ORLANDO, FL – The Sunshine State has
hundreds of “collateral consequences”
related to occupational licensing for people
with past criminal convictions, which makes
it difficult – if not impossible – for
returning citizens to become
barbers/hairdressers, cosmetologists,
contractors, or enter numerous other
professional fields.
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April 14,
2023 08:55 am
FLORIDA –
Florida's newest aquatic preserve is
officially set to move forward with a
management plan aimed at protecting
350,000 acres of seagrass, almost 10,000
acres of salt marsh, 121 acres of mangrove
swamp, and archaeological and cultural
sites. The Nature Coast Aquatic Preserve off
Florida's west coast is the first new
preserve designated in more than 30
years and part of the largest seagrass
bed in the Gulf of Mexico.
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April 3,
2023 07:10 am
FLORIDA –
Florida ranks last (50th out of 50
states) of children receiving a dental
health visit during the previous 12
months. Identical bills in the FL House
& Senate aim to change this.
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March 31, 2023 12:50 am
FLORIDA – The United States Attorney's
Office (USAO) closed out March in Florida
with cases ranging from Lake City to Miami
and Ocala to Pensacola. The indictments and
crimes range from firearms possession by a
convicted felon, drug offenses, targeted
attacks on pregnancy resource facilities,
and a guilty plea by an Assistant U.S.
Attorney for conflict of interest.
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March 22, 2023
06:20 am
TALLAHASSEE, FL –
Dollar-store chains are rapidly growing
across the country, with more locations
than McDonald's, Starbucks, Target, and
Walmart combined, according to a new
report, which claims their rapid growth
is due in part to targeting low-income
communities.
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March 17, 2023
5:55 pm
FLORIDA
– Today, three organizations that oppose
legislation that would create a
universal voucher and education savings
account program, released statements
following the Florida House's passage
House Bill,
HB 1.
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Posted
March 8, 2023, 11:35 pm
GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI – A Mississippi man
was sentenced today before U.S. District
Judge Halil S. Ozerden to 42 months in
prison, followed by three years of
supervised release and restitution. Axel
Cox, 24, was responsible for restitution of
$7,810 for burning a cross in his front yard
with the intent to intimidate a Black
family.
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Posted
March 1, 2023, 07:35 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Yesterday, after
the referral of HB 999 to committee,
National Nurses United (NNU) urged the
bill's rejection, calling it "a new Florida
bill intended to ban funding for diversity,
equity, and inclusion programs and eliminate
majors focused on the study of race and
gender in Florida colleges and
universities.”
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Posted
February 28, 2023 6:00 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Chris Doolan has
been a household name in small county
governments for four decades. During the February 23, 2023, North
Central Florida Regional Planning Council
monthly meeting, after the elected and
appointed North Florida officials finished
their taxpayer-funded fried chicken dinners,
Mr. Doolan spoke about legislation affecting
small counties. Everyone listened.
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February 20, 2023 3:55
pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Beginning tomorrow
evening, February 21, and continuing on the
following two evenings, the Suwannee River
Water Management District will be meeting
and inviting the public to discuss updated
flood risk maps for the Santa Fe Watershed.
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Children made up 48.2% of Florida's
total Medicaid enrollment growth during
the pandemic – significant health
coverage disruptions could lie ahead.
February 16, 2023 10:20 am
ORLANDO, FL – Florida's Medicaid and
Children's Health Insurance Program
(CHIP) proved to be a critical lifeline
for more than 65.7% of the state's
children during the COVID-19 pandemic,
according to a new report by the
Georgetown University Center for
Children and Families at the McCourt
School of Public Policy.
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Manager Williams to interview
(poll?) the Board for members opinions.
February 8, 2023
7:15 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – After over
two-and-a-half years of foot-dragging,
excuses, dead-ends, propaganda, special
meetings, and fear-mongering, the vacated
Lake Shore Hospital Authority hospital,
Shands at Lake Shore may finally have an
occupier.
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February 3, 2023 01:15 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Florida's proposed
HB 1 would implement a massive expansion in
Florida's public school voucher program. It
would broaden eligibility to include all
K-12 students statewide and redirect
billions in state school aid from public to
private schools.
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February 2, 2023 6:35 pm
MARION COUNTY, FL – Marion County Fire
and Rescue is mourning the loss of a second
firefighter/paramedic to suicide in 20 days.
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25 Years of Online Experience Pays
off for Saint Leo Students
January 25, 2023 7 pm
ST.
LEO, FL – Saint Leo University, one of
the early leaders in online education,
earned honors in four categories for
providing the best online bachelor’s and
master’s programs in the United States,
according to the 2023 U.S. News & World
Report’s Best Online Programs edition,
released Tuesday, January 24.
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January 24, 2023
03:39 am
LAKE CITY, FL – Last Tuesday evening, January
17, one of the biggest sweetheart deals in the
history of Florida went down in Lake City City
Hall. Negotiations between Lake City and HAECO
(Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company), which
began approximately 18 months ago, ended with
all but one of the City Council clueless about
the fair market value of its airport.
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Black History Month begins in 10
days.
January 20, 2023
10:05 am
TALLAHASSEE, FL – The administration of
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected plans to
expand an Advanced Placement African American
Studies course for high schools, claiming it
violates state law and calling it historically
inaccurate.
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A college degree: Now you see it -
now you don't.
January 19, 2023
3:15 pm
LAKE CITY, FL – The unraveling of Lake City
continued at the tail end of Tuesday's
drama-filled City Council meeting. Buried at the
bottom of the agenda was the undated rewrite of
the Assistant City Manager job description.
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Posted Jan. 16,
2023 9:00 am
Originally Posted Jan 17, 2011, in a more
civilized time for LC
LAKE CITY, FL – In 2011, the MLK day
celebrations were a celebration of a life well
lived. Today, Lake City is a City with the
"Scarlet Letter." It has gone backwards in time.
Had the Columbia County/Lake City community
heeded the words of Reverend Joy L. Gallmon,
Reverend J. T. "Billy" Simon, and Dr. King, Lake
City/Columbia County would not be where it is
today.
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MLK Day: A Look back at Dr. King and the Nobel
Peace Prize & a History of the Lake City Logo
Thinking About Burning a Cross In Your Yard
To Send a Message… Mississippi Man Sentenced
for Federal Hate Crime for Cross Burning
