Making a change to the Florida Constitution is a pivotal event. That’s why it’s so important to know what the proposed Amendments are all about in the 2020 elections. Subjects range from boosting the minimum wage to voting in the primaries. Watch for these stories by the Florida Phoenix through September and October.
A minimum wage victory for working families in FL could also run into pitfalls...
Advocates for higher wages for working families celebrated Tuesday night, as Florida voters narrowly approved Amendment 2 on the ballot to raise the state’s...
FL voters were choosy with constitutional amendments; higher minimum-wage close to approval
Florida’s proposed constitutional amendment No. 2 to raise the minimum wage teetered on the brink of approval late Tuesday, with 10.4 million ballots counted...
FL Supreme Court rejects late challenge to Amendment 3, which would end party primaries
The Florida Supreme Court has dismissed a late legal challenge to the proposed Constitutional Amendment 3, which would end partisan political primary elections in...
Homestead and veterans Amendments on smooth road toward approval
Proposed Constitutional Amendments 5 and 6, tweaking property-tax laws, wouldn’t cost much and they wouldn’t change much, according to state analysts, but they have...
Amendment 3 sponsor criticizes Supreme Court challenge as ‘political stunt;’ state asks justices not...
Attorneys for Secretary of State Laurel Lee have asked the Florida Supreme Court to dismiss a challenge to proposed Amendment 3 — the measure...
ACLU of FL: Three proposed amendments on Nov. 3 ballot ‘endanger Floridians’ civil liberties’
Whether voting by mail or in person in the coming election, Floridians will see six proposed amendments to the state Constitution that they will...
Dark money fuels effort to hinder FL citizens from changing Constitution — ‘It’s just...
The organization that placed Amendment 4, which would make it twice as hard to amend the Florida Constitution, on the Nov. 3 ballot was...
Amendment 1: $8.3 million and two words, for a “citizenship” issue that will likely...
Sponsors of proposed Constitutional Amendment 1 spent $8.3 million to give Florida voters the chance to change the words “every" citizen to “only a"...
Should all voters participate in the primaries regardless of political parties?
Had Amendment 3 — the proposed Constitutional amendment that promises to tear down Florida’s political primaries and build them anew — been the law...
Minimum wage or livable wage? Voters will decide about boosting FL’s minimum wage to...
Tandela Blount-Jackson has a baby on the way and works as a certified nursing assistant, earning a meager hourly wage.
At 31, she had been...