Advocacy group challenges Florida’s “fake” concern over women’s health
Pro-choice advocates will be in Tallahassee next week to petition Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Department of Health to demand more accountability for...
Rush job on school safety law causes mental-health conundrum for families, no help from...
In the rushed, traumatic days following the February shootings at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, lawmakers scrambled to approve broad gun reforms and...
Green groups sue to block Trump’s offshore drilling plan in Gulf of Mexico
Four environmental groups filed a lawsuit today against the Trump administration for its decision to open more than 78 million acres of the Gulf...
The feds say they will keep releasing vile Lake Okeechobee pollution to coasts
Despite the nasty fluorescent green algae outbreak that’s happening off South Florida’s east and west coasts, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has resumed...
Florida activists speak out against Trump Supreme Court nominee
Progressive activists on Thursday gathered outside the Florida Supreme Court and called on Florida U.S. Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio to reject President...
Kathy Castor blasts Trump ‘sabotage’ of consumer help for Affordable Health Care Act
Since healthcare.gov went live in the fall of 2013, no state in the union has had more people sign up for the Affordable Care...
“Unless we get our friggin’ medicine, we’re not going to be able to get...
Marijuana activists called on Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday to drop the state’s challenges over two lawsuits related to medical marijuana.
The 2016 constitutional...
Stigmatizing kids? New law forces families to disclose student’s mental health treatment
Registering a student for public school involves submitting everything from proof of immunizations, health exams and birth certificates to details about gender, race, emergency...
What’s in our food? Florida congressman calls federal GMO labeling plan “grossly inadequate.”
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan announced this week that he has filed a formal objection letter with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, calling its food...
Cancer cluster in southeast Florida town?
ABC News reports from Satellite Beach, where a woman who was diagnosed with a rare kind of breast cancer at age 35 has been...