News Service of Florida
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Floridians Protecting Freedom reports picking up $700,000 from Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida during the week of Aug. 16-23 for the effort to promote Amendment 4. -
Trulieve contributes another $10 million to the committee seeking to get recreational marijuana legalized in Florida. The company has now supplied more than $75 million of the $82 million raised. -
A bankruptcy judge is scheduled to hold a hearing Sept. 10 on the bid to purchase three Florida hospitals owned by Steward Health, which has filed for Chapter 11. -
The Florida Department of Education has issued a “model policy” to help school districts carry out a controversial new law that allows volunteer chaplains. -
The cannabis company's contribution was made to the Smart & Safe committee. Meantime, an opposition committee received $250,000 from Jacksonville petroleum distributor Aubrey Edge. -
The total raised during the latest reporting period included $5 million from Lantana resident Marsha Laufer and $2 million from the D.C.-based Open Society Action Fund. -
The health plans AmeriHealth Caritas Florida and Sentara Care Alliance are challenging decisions by AHCA to deny them contracts to manage care for Medicaid beneficiaries. -
The 3,162 deaths in 2024 was up from 2,972 at the beginning of July. The pace of deaths is lower than during the past four years. -
The settlement stems from allegations that Escambia violated a law known as the False Claims Act by falsely billing federal health care programs. -
Ken Griffin, CEO of the firm Citadel, in an opinion piece in the Miami Herald, calls the proposed amendment “a terrible plan to create the nation’s most expansive and destructive marijuana laws.”
