3+ hour, 21+ min ago   (715+ words) Supporters of a Tampa Bay Rays ballpark have spent the past week trying to win over a skeptical Tampa City Council after members stalled two major pieces of the proposed deal. A new poll conducted by The Tyson Group suggests…...

8+ hour, 21+ min ago   (1675+ words) Welcome back to Diagnosis, a vertical focused on the intersection of healthcare policy and politics. Delays securing insurance approval and finding post-hospital care kept medically cleared patients in Florida hospitals for more than 781,000 unnecessary days, according to a new survey…...

9+ hour, 11+ min ago   (256+ words) Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson has tapped Jessica Ferris to lead the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Office of Agricultural Water Policy. Ferris rises from staff director for the Office, where she helped oversee statewide agricultural and water quality…...

9+ hour, 51+ min ago   (804+ words) — First Shot — Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson has tapped Jessica Ferris to lead the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Office of Agricultural Water Policy. Ferris rises from staff director for the Office, where she helped oversee statewide agricultural and…...

9+ hour, 54+ min ago   (891+ words) James Fishback will remain in the race for Governor, pending a potential future decision on appeal. Judge David Frank of the 2nd Judicial Circuit ruled Monday that Fishback can stay in the contest, giving the embattled candidate a win in his…...

10+ hour, 36+ min ago   (338+ words) New York City has updated its election records after determining Florida congressional candidate Mike Beltran did not vote there last year. That comes as Beltran, a Hillsborough Republican, threatens to sue influencer Laura Loomer, who reported Beltran had been registered…...

10+ hour, 47+ min ago   (418+ words) A flood of chats and projects created using Anthropic’s Claude.ai platform have been exposed to Google, and one of the top results centers on Miami Commissioner Ralph Rosado’s Bayfront Park initiative. It also concludes that his preferred alternative to…...

11+ hour, 31+ min ago   (439+ words) St. Petersburg is rolling out two new housing programs aimed at helping residents recover from Hurricanes Idalia and Helene and reducing the city’s long-term vulnerability to future storms. The Homebuyer Assistance Program and Voluntary Buyout Program are the latest additions…...

11+ hour, 50+ min ago   (332+ words) UNESCO’s addition of the Okefenokee Swamp to the World Heritage List is thrilling to North Florida environmentalists. The Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is a huge 438,000-acre tract of protected wetlands that’s mostly in Georgia. But it also has portions…...

12+ hour, 7+ min ago   (371+ words) Former U.S. Rep. Chris Collins is out with a new television ad promising to “crush radical communists” and tying the former New York Congressman closely to President Donald Trump. Collins is one of 10 Republicans battling in Florida’s 19th Congressional District to succeed…...