Nate Monroe: Jaguars stadium deal will be a challenge for Mayor Deegan unlike any other jacksonville.com/story/news/col… via Florida Times-Union, Nate Monroe

Jaguars stadium renovation deal will be announced Tuesday, City Council president says jacksonville.com/story/news/loc… via Florida Times-Union

official letterhead, official twitter account, official clown

NEW: Javier Ortiz, the Miami police captain whose long history of citizen complaints alleging beatings, false arrests and harassment made him notorious in the city he swore to protect and serve, has joined Ron DeSantis’ Florida State Guard.
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If you missed it, you can listen to today's show here: news.wjct.org/show/first-coa…. Thanks to Nate Monroe for coming on and Annie Martin & Mario Ariza for making the trip to Jax for the segment!

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In April, SEC investigators interviewed Mayor Francis Suarez about his job with Miami developer Rishi Kapoor.

Suarez had refused to make public his contract, but Miami Herald now has the details of the arrangement, which included the promise of equity.

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Why does Okefenokee deserve World Heritage status? No place on earth quite like the swamp jacksonville.com/story/news/col… via Florida Times-Union, Mark Woods

The conservative think tank that helped write a new Florida law that implicitly criminalizes homelessness also wants state leaders to make it easier to involuntarily commit people and to cancel 'housing first' support programs. Via Ryan Gillespie

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A short rumination on what it means when we lose people like Bob Graham, figures of Florida’s brighter past.

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'Florida's chief export, its primary contribution to the rest of the nation, is cruelty. It is a mean place that makes people meaner, and it shows others how to be mean, too.'

Great column from Nate Monroe that describes how Florida has changed under Ron DeSantis.

The Leon County Democrats held a long moment of silence for Governor & Senator Graham at our meeting this week

We all acknowledged as a group exactly the meaning you captured, across generations and demographics together

May his light guide those who follow in his path.

Great column, Nate

A short rumination on what it means when we lose people like Bob Graham, figures of Florida’s brighter past.

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An initial draft contract for hiring Vickie Cavey as JEA's CEO showed a three-year term and a $575,000 salary for her employment.

Is she interim or permanent? Strange situation. h/t David Bauerlein
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Column | The 129,000-student Duval County Public School District, one of the largest in Florida, is crumbling before our eyes, a harbinger of this state's future.
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My corrupt communist governor hates the free market and innovation so much that he’s banning a product that doesn’t exist yet because it might compete with his campaign donors someday.