"In #Florida, a 60-year-old couple earning $82,000 would see their annual premiums rise by almost $20,000. For a family of four making $126,000, premiums would rise by more than $9,000 each year." GOP megabill targets entrepreneurs, small businesses. tampabay.com/news/health/20…

A new state law which critics condemn as a gift to developers across Florida is drawing mounting opposition from cities and counties. news-journalonline.com/story/news/loc…

Federal judge scrutinizes Everglades site as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ environmental hearing nears close. via Kimberly Leonard . subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

Florida cities and counties line up to defy new pro-developer state law: local governments are tired of being pushed around by developers and their toadies and are ready to push back. floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/14/flo…

The government says hurricane damage could prompt a sale of the beloved Chazzahowitzka River Campground. The managers of the campground, though, say that doesn't make sense. Max Chesnes and I took a river trip to find out more: tampabay.com/news/environme…

Breaking News: A federal judge ordered that “Alligator Alcatraz,” a Florida immigration detention center, be shut down, at least temporarily, within 60 days. nyti.ms/45x71R6

👀Craig Pittman in #Florida The Florida Phoenix on new BP Gulf "Kaskida" rig plan: "Here’s a fun fact about Kaskida: BP found that deposit of oil in 2006 using the same drilling rig that it used for Deepwater Horizon. OK, maybe that fact isn’t so fun after all.floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/28/bp-…

NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.

A few weeks ago, the Governor’s Office ordered two cases of bug spray to be shipped to the immigration detention camp it opened earlier this summer in the middle of the Florida Everglades. 🧵...

Fracked gas superchilled into liquid, known as liquefied natural gas or LNG, was once sold as a “bridge fuel.” But scientists say its full climate impact is 33% worse than coal — and the Gulf Coast is living with the fallout. floodlightnews.org/trump-fueled-g…

Your #Florida tax dollars spent for this awful look

RIP to my “wasband.” He made a difference in the world, just like our daughter is making a difference in the world tallahassee.com/story/news/202…

Allies on the ground have spotted an increase in buses, fill trucks and other equipment coming and going at the entrance to the detention center along Tamiami Trail in Big Cypress National Preserve. Make a donation at everglades.org to be part of this movement.

👀$80m of taxpayer $$ for 4 acres? Legislative language slipped in reverts $850m from Florida Wildlife Corridor "and instead placed the Destin purchase as the top priority ahead of corridor projects." Bruce Ritchie reports in POLITICO subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

👀 #Florida

NPR & dozens of other journalists will be barred from the Pentagon as of tonight, for refusing to agree to an unprecedented Defense Dept rule. This excellent column from my colleague Tom Bowman explains why that matters. npr.org/2025/10/14/g-s…