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1000 Friends Of Florida Vows To Keep Fighting For Conservation Funding

By • May 26, 2017

Environmentalists unhappy with Florida lawmakers are vowing to keep fighting over this year’s lack of funding for land acquisition under the state’s Water and Land Conservation Amendment.

The activist group — 1000 Friends of Florida — said Wednesday it plans to make conservation funding a priority in the 2018 legislative session.

A key component of the strategy involves mobilizing the citizenry, says the group’s Ryan Smart.

State Officials Begin Divvying Up Federal Opioid Grant Funding

By • May 19, 2017

Florida service providers are wasting no time taking advantage of nearly $30 million in federal money for addressing the opioid epidemic.

Northeast Florida Nursing Homes Rally Against State Elder Care Changes

By • Apr 24, 2017

With two weeks left in the legislative session, some Jacksonville elder care providers are rallying supporters against a Senate-proposed change to how nursing homes are funded.


Florida Families Seek More State Mental Health Money

By • Mar 10, 2017

Florida families are calling on the state to fully fund mental health services. Social service agencies say the lack of funding for mental health care and substance abuse means more people incarcerated or living on the streets.

Protests Against Planned Parenthood Rouse Dueling Rallies Nationwide

By • Feb 11, 2017

Updated at 9:10 a.m. ET Sunday

Anti-abortion rights protesters gathered outside Planned Parenthood clinics across the country Saturday, in a series of rallies calling on politicians to end federal funding for the century-old organization. The activists planned to picket outside roughly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics — but at many of those locations, counterprotesters were there to meet them.

PolitiFact Florida Probes Federal Zika Funding

By • Jan 4, 2017

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is saying the federal government is shortchanging the state when it comes to doling out money to fight the transmission of the Zika virus. WUSF's Steve Newborn talks with Katie Sanders of PolitiFact Florida to see if it's true.

JASMYN Nonprofit Raises $700,000 For AIDS/HIV Free Jax Effort

By • Dec 4, 2016

The Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network has raised $700,000 toward eliminating HIV and AIDS in Jacksonville with a campaign called  #AIDSFreeJax.

The LGBT nonprofit announced its progress Thursday, in observance of World AIDS Day, and at a time when Jacksonville ranks third in the state for new cases of HIV.Florida ranks second in the country.

Army Corps Says It's Prepared To Move Faster On Everglades Reservoir -- With Funding

By Amy Green • Nov 20, 2016

Planning for a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee is scheduled to begin in 2021. The reservoir is crucial to restoring the Everglades, and the project could get started sooner if funding were available.

The reservoir is aimed at restoring a more natural flow of water to the Everglades. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will work with the state on the project.

Zika Money: Fauci And Frieden Talk Vaccines

By • Oct 4, 2016
National Institutes of Health

Zika vaccine trials could come to South Florida as early as this winter.

Now that the House and Senate have agreed on a $1.1 billion Zika funding package, research and vaccine development is a federal priority.

Federal Water Bill Makes Way For Everglades Restoration To Benefit Coastal Estuaries

By Amy Green/WMFE & Amy Green • Oct 3, 2016
National Parks Conservation Association

Federal dollars for new Everglades restoration could flow as early as next year. The money comes from a bill making its way through Congress.

Poll: About Half In FL Back Planned Parenthood Funding

By News Service of Florida • Aug 25, 2015
Associated Press

With a wide disparity among men and women, 48 percent of Florida voters oppose cutting off federal funding to Planned Parenthood, while 42 percent support such a move, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.

Hospital Commission Talks Performance Funding

By • May 27, 2015
Abe Aboraya / WMFE

Gov. Rick Scott’s hospital commission, tasked with looking at how taxpayer dollars are used to support health care for the poor, discussed performance funding for hospitals at a meeting Tuesday in Orlando.

The nine-member group delved through detailed hospital statistics, and started brainstorming ideas for how to reform hospital payments.

Tom Kuntz, a former chairman of SunTrust, helped build performance funding metrics for Florida’s university system. Kuntz says the hospital commission could look at a similar system for hospitals.

Still a Long Way to Go on Mental Health

By • Dec 18, 2013

At his site Our Health Policy Matters, consultant Paul Gionfriddo writes that the extra $100 million in federal funding for mental health is more tokenism than real change. He says that’s a small portion, about 3 percent, of the overall Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration budget.

Sequester to Hit Elderly Oct. 1

By • Aug 26, 2013
Mike Lang / Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Agencies that depend on funding under the Older Americans Act of 1965 face millions more in automatic cuts come Oct. 1 unless Congress acts to stop the funding reductions from the sequester, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. The sequester has already reduced funding by $87 million to programs that help seniors stay in their homes instead of turning to institutionalized care; that amount is set to double. Meanwhile, Democratic U.S. Sen.

Even with More Funding, Disability Waiting List Still Long

By • May 17, 2013
Communications Office / Gov. Rick Scott

Gov. Rick Scott has approved an increase in funding for the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to help about 750 people who are on the the waiting list for the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waiver.

There are about 22,000 people on the waiting list.

At the Capitol: Epilepsy Funding, More

By • Mar 25, 2013

Gov. Rick Scott has proposed eliminating several programs from the Department of Health, including epilepsy treatment and University of Florida dental clinics, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports.

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