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For two months each year,160 men and women elected by Florida voters gather in Tallahassee to make state policies. Everyday during this final week of the…
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Miami Beach City Hall was at capacity this Earth Day when Sen. Bill Nelson held a field hearing on sea-level rise. The hearing attracted environmentalists…
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For more than a year, the Miami Herald dug through Department of Children & Families records and police reports to find out how and why nearly 500…
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With two weeks to go in the lawmaking session, open government and ethics measures favored by watchdog groups are stalled in the Florida Legislature.…
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Join the Miami Herald and WLRN-Miami Herald News for a town hall on how to fix the child welfare system at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 17 at the Doral…
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U.S. Senator Bill Nelson wants Florida to be ready if and when a hurricane strikes. That's why during a recent Senate Armed Services committee hearing,...
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TALLAHASSEE -- A high-profile healthcare bill moving through the Florida House could strip the Miami-Dade County Commission of its authority to make the…
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"Paper or plastic?" is a question you’ll hear at grocery stores for at least another year because a South Florida lawmaker was unsuccessful in his attempt…
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Florida lawmakers are more than half finished with the legislative session. Will they deliver on Governor Scott’s goal of $500 million in tax cuts?…
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In Tallahassee, legislative Democrats are facing a time of store brands and junk food -- or so they say -- as they begin a week of subsisting on the…
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Dramatic increases in state incentives to lure film and entertainment production to Florida may be on the way. But this time, local governments would have…
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The legislative session is slightly more than halfway over.So what have lawmakers been doing in the first five weeks and what’s next?We checked with Miami…