From climate change to monstrous debt, policy issues make voters want to learn more about what matters most when they decide to cast their votes in the 2020 elections. Watch for these weekly policy stories by the Florida Phoenix through September and October.
Voter suppression: FL voting rights groups want corporations to follow denouncements with action
Voting-rights advocates in Florida took heart this week from powerful public statements issued by giant corporations condemning efforts to restrict voting in nearly every...
Student loan crisis: Politicians are struggling with staggering student loan debt, just like the...
Some influential politicians are saddled by staggering student loan debt — more than $200,000 in two cases and several others with college loan obligations...
‘A culture of Black reticence and Black hypersensitivity’: Race and police reforms take center...
As a Black man living in Florida’s state capital, Joshua Johnson believes that police procedures, particularly regarding communities of color, need to change.
He recalls...
“Gay or not — we are Americans and we should be protected;” members of...
In their early 50s, Lori Geist and Janette Wagner have been married for five years and together for 14 years.
The two women live in...
Living without health insurance: FL voters to decide on which candidates can provide affordable...
Vicky Charles has navigated and endured the state's health care system in Florida, but she still doesn’t have health insurance. And she’s angry.
At one...
GENDER POLITICS: Women more likely to vote — and have more to lose —...
Shyanne Taylor works as an office manager for a physical therapy clinic in Wimauma, a little more than 30 minutes out from Tampa. She...
CLIMATE CHANGE: As scientists issue dire warnings, how will 2020 voters in FL respond?
For scientist Pam McVety, electing a climate-focused president this fall represents the last chance for Americans to pull back from the brink of climate...