Jim Turner - News Service of Florida
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Other tax breaks will take effect starting Friday on items including children’s diapers and Energy Star appliances.
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Some face legal challenges, such as a bill that would prevent abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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More than three-dozen Florida lawmakers, including incoming Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, appeared headed back to Tallahassee without opposition as a deadline passed Friday for qualifying for the November elections.
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They want to be prepared for when manatees make their winter return to areas depleted of sea grasses.
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As the Visit Florida tourism marketing agency celebrated record first-quarter tourism numbers while meeting last week in Orlando, staff and board members also expressed concern that increasing cost of hotel rooms is slowly affecting occupancy rates.
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The qualifying period ends at noon Friday when candidates for governor, three state Cabinet posts, a U.S. Senate seat, 28 congressional seats and all 160 legislative seats have to make sure their paperwork is submitted.
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She will instead run for Congress in South Florida.
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The funds were expected to be used toward building a spring training home for the Rays.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a record $109.9 billion budget for the fiscal year that will begin July 1, but vetoes included funds for a Pasco sports complex and an H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center facility in Pasco County.
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It due in part to COVID-19 protocols being lifted, and residents choosing shelters over hotel stays as inflation has hit a four-decade high.