Florida lawmakers push to replace Lt. Governor with "efficiency commissioner"
The proposal would give the commissioner of government efficiency authority to "audit, investigate and report on fraud, waste and abuse." ...
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Florida House Panel Advances Plan To Replace Lieutenant Governor With Efficiency Watchdog
A bold proposal to reshape Florida’s executive branch took its first step forward Tuesday, as the House Government Operations Subcommittee voted 14-3 to approve a constitutional amendment that would ...
‘Scum,’ ‘crooked’ elections and ‘corrupt’ media. What Trump said inside the Justice Department
President Donald Trump delivered what sounded like one of his typical meandering, grievance-laden campaign speeches on Friday ...
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USF is deleting webpages with DEI content
USF is deleting some of the university’s webpages, news articles, PDF documents and internal audits with content on diversity ...
From Talk of ‘Crooked’ Elections to ‘Corrupt’ Media, Here’s What Trump Said Inside the Justice Department
The move marked Trump’s clearest exertion yet of personal control over the country’s federal law enforcement apparatus.
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Panel OKs Nixing Lieutenant Governor
A proposal that would ask voters next year to eliminate the office of lieutenant governor and create a new Cabinet position of “commissioner of government ...
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‘From Gods to Google’: DU Law Professor Sounds Alarm Over First Amendment and Technology Regulation
Lorie Smith, a Colorado website designer, sued Aubrey Elenis, the director of the Colorado Civil Rights Division. The lawsuit ...
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Florida university leaders defend DEI restrictions
State higher-education leaders and university trustees fired back at a lawsuit that alleges a 2023 law targeting diversity, ...
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The sun is setting on government transparency in Florida – and secrecy creep is affecting the rest of the US, too
The nonprofit Florida First Amendment Foundation was launched in 1985 to promote government transparency and hired its first paid employee, Barbara Petersen, in 1995, to monitor secrecy ...
Florida university leaders defend DEI restrictions, fire back at lawsuit
At issue is a 2023 law targeting diversity, equity and inclusion issues at Florida’s public universities. Several professors have sued, arguing the law violated the First Amendment.