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Citizens Property Insurance continues to add policies in Florida; it’s now over 1.3 million policies
The state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has topped 1.36 million policies, as it continues to add thousands of customers a week.
Florida’s unemployment rate inches up to 2.7 percent, its highest of the year
The Florida Department of Commerce estimated 295,000 Floridians were out of work in mid-July, up 5,000 from a month earlier.
Tampa, Plant City, and Temple Terrace Mayors speak on local issues, preemption
Mayors of Tampa, Plant City, and Temple Terrace joined a panel in Tampa. They want less intrusion on local issues from state lawmakers.
Interview with author of “Between Two Moons”.
Samar spoke to American Arab novelist Aisha Abdel Gawad about her new novel Between Two Moon. Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of...
Unmasking contradictions: The need for integrity and accountability in public interest organizations
A guide for activists, workers, and public interest organizations to avoid worker abuse and exploiting their own workforce.
The Scoop: Fri., August 18, 2023 Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF
Sextortion in Tampa Bay The FBI Tampa Field Office has seen an increase in sextortion cases targeting teenage boys. Both the FBI and the St Petersburg Police Department are encouraging victims to come forward. ...
PragerU: Would you let your kids see it?
Florida’s Department of Education recently announced the approval of “supplemental teaching materials” from PragerU. In the announcement, state education officials maintained that the new K-12 curriculum from “PragerU Kids,” aligns with Florida’s “revised civics and...
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1996 murder of a woman he met in an Escambia County bar.
Two young USF activists, former employee Chrisley Carpio and student Gia Davila, along with 3 other student activists associated with Tampa Students for a Democratic Society, are now facing serious felony charges for protesting Gov....
Glen Gilzean, administrator of a special district that includes Walt Disney World properties, shouldn’t continue to serve as a member of the Florida Commission on Ethics while holding a public job.
BP oil-spill money will be used to help the Port of Pensacola become a training base for American Magic, a yacht-racing team.
Federal judge refuses to block Florida law that restricts people from China from owning land
A judge says plaintiffs are unlikely to be able to show the measure was motivated by discrimination or lacks a “rational basis.”
