Tampa Bay Times by Elizabeth Koh January 8, 2019 Newly inaugurated Gov. Ron DeSantis issued two executive orders to cap his first day in office Tuesday night, just hours after he was sworn in on the steps of the state’s historic Old Capitol. After addressing lawmakers in the afternoon and returning to the Governor’s Mansion […]

A South Florida Water Management District board member and the state agency’s general counsel and chief of staff have resigned. Vice Chair Melanie Peterson and Brian Accardo quit at a time when a Florida congressman and leading environmentalists are calling for the entire board and Executive Director Ernie Marks to resign over a controversial sugar […]

Orlando Sentinel by Kevin Spear January 3, 2019 The Florida Virtual School claims that its lawyer quit in the face of a probe of his alleged workplace misconduct, but Frank Kruppenbacher says now that he was fired and locked out of his office before the investigation began. That detail has emerged from a lawsuit filed […]