Florida reported the highest COVID-19 summer death rate in the nation, passing 18,000 deaths since June due to the delta variant, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) ongoing community profile reports.  Florida legislators who politicized mitigation measures and vaccinations instead of encouraging them are partially responsible […]

Petitioners have been flocking to USF’s Tampa campus this semester, particularly outside the library, Marshall Student Center and Student Services, to convince students and faculty passing by to sign petitions. These petitioners are harassing students, staff and making the campus feel less comfortable and less safe. What they’re doing is […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis cut off all state funding to subsidized housing developers Cambridge Management and Southport Financial Services on Sept. 24 after witnessing firsthand the deplorable conditions of the Hilltop Village affordable housing community in Jacksonville. Following a News 4 Jacksonville exposé on the apartment’s conditions in April, Sen. Marco […]

Mater Academy, Inc., a South Florida charter school company, was granted permission and funding by the Hillsborough County School Board on Sept. 21 to open an elementary and middle school in unspecified Hillsborough locations. Hillsborough County shouldn’t build more charter schools, which often take advantage of taxpayer dollars to the […]

Florida legislators are currently in the process of redrawing state legislative and congressional districts. These GOP legislators are under particular scrutiny this year after the Florida Supreme Court concluded the last process was illegally hijacked by Republican political operatives 10 years ago. Despite this, GOP leaders have held no public […]

North Fort Myers Rep. Spencer Roach proposed an amendment Aug. 12 in a move to return partisanship to school board elections.  House Joint Resolution 35 proposes an amendment to the state constitution to require members of a district school board to be elected in a partisan race. This would overturn […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 21-175 on July 30 that bans schools from enforcing mask mandates, despite the recent surge in COVID-19 cases caused by the delta variant. COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida have reached a record high. New cases have increased almost eightfold during the month of July and […]

As Americans reached a new high of $1.7 trillion in student loans in May, according to the Federal Reserve, three bills proposed by a group of U.S. senators in April to simplify the financial aid process for college students come at the perfect time.  Minnesota Democratic Sen. Tina Smith and […]

USF Athletics announced June 15 it won’t renew associate head men’s basketball coach Tom Herrion’s contract after an independent review by the Lightfoot, Franklin and White Law Firm looking into insensitive comments made by Herrion to student-athletes found he violated USF’s misconduct policies.  The review found Herrion didn’t violate USF […]