County leaders seem to have accidentally approved removing fluoride from Mims water floridatoday.com/story/news/pol… via Florida Today

The big takeaway here is that @OhioU has money to pay a president who broke his own contractual agreements when he decided to quit to become a professor (after a paid sabbatical, of course) but not money to fund the single role that keeps its student newspaper afloat.

Ohio University has $1,658,257 available to pay its football coaching staff each season But doesn't want to spend $45,000 for the student newspaper's *only* full-time employee. The Post is a critical experience for one of OU's top programs & helps recruit students.

A bill nicknamed Don't Say Gay by critics moving through the Florida Legislature proposes banning discussions surrounding sexual orientation & gender identity in schools. New from me, rachel heimann mercader, Bailey Gallion, Ana Goñi-Lessan & Harriet Heithaus 🌊 jacksonville.com/story/news/edu…

2 weeks ago, "Moms for Liberty" sent a #Florida school board a list of 10 books in school libraries that it contended are porn. Now it's sent a 2nd list of 9 more. The lists "includes primarily teen fiction with explicit sex scenes." floridatoday.com/story/news/edu… via Bailey Gallion

I would be remiss if I didn’t note the fact that while Moms for Liberty/Florida Democrats conferences are happening simultaneously in Tampa, there’s also a Comic-Con. Here is the Mandalorian and Boba Fett sitting behind me at the Moms for Liberty hotel. Star Wars caucus?

Brevard Public Schools says claims that a transgender student sexually assaulted a girl in a school bathroom are false, calls Randy Fine's letter asking the state to investigate "an embarrassment": floridatoday.com/story/news/edu…

New #Firefighting and Technical #Education Program at Palm Bay High floridatoday.com/picture-galler… via Florida Today

Update: the state and Melbourne PD are looking into claims about a sexual assault at a Brevard middle school, and a potentially unrelated sexual assault report against a transgender student in a different school bathroom has surfaced. floridatoday.com/story/news/edu…

Update: The charges have been dropped against the man accused of throwing cans of White Claw at Sen. Ted Cruz during the Astros World Series parade. A grand jury failed to find an indictment #HouNews

So I'm reporting from court today, covering an eviction docket in Judge Israel Garcia's courtroom. I had my phone on airplane but an old alarm went off by accident. The judge has confiscated my phone until 9 a.m. tomorrow. Also there are ~450 cases on the docket.

You gotta read this. Not only was the photo printed after the MYC mayor told the story of carrying it in his wallet, but staffers roughed it up and splashed it with coffee to make it look old, NYT reports: nytimes.com/2023/07/06/nyr…

Ok fine I’m there too

Student journalism matters :)