Leon County Indivisible
Activism for Busy People
Editor’s Note: Ron DeSantis is wasting your tax dollars on right-wing crusades. Again. The state owes nearly half a million dollars to a biologist fired after reposting on social media […]
A multibillion-dollar package to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term faced new delays Thursday as Senate Republicans showed a rare split with the president over […]
The latest findings by researchers at Harvard and Stanford are based on 2024-25 state test results, combined with national assessment data, to pinpoint trends in learning.
Students in Florida are falling behind in reading and math, compared to other states, and one in three children miss too much school, according to a nationwide report called the Education Scorecard, released on Wednesday.
While some states made post-pandemic gains in reading, Florida students’ reading ability declined the most in the last four years. The average Florida student is more than half a grade level behind where the average student was in 2022.
That downward trend shows scores are “declining rapidly,” said co-author Sean Reardon, a professor at Stanford University.
A Leon County Circuit Judge heard arguments that Florida’s new congressional group should be put on hold until after the Midterms.
Attorneys for voting rights groups argued that a clear partisan intent behind the map — which dismantles four Democratic-leaning districts while leaving most seats held by Republicans intact — violates a ban on partisan intent by mapmakers in Florida’s Constitution.
Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes, an appointee of Gov. Ron DeSantis, said he will issue a decision in writing in coming days. He combined all lawsuits challenging the current map into one case this week, and said he would review all briefs and a transcript of a Friday hearing before making his decision.
David Jolly and Jerry Demings are vying to become the first Democratic governor to lead Florida in nearly three decades. If elected, they’ll face an additional challenge — working with an opposition Republican Party that enjoys a supermajority in the Legislature.
Speaking during a campaign event in Clearwater Wednesday night, Jolly mentioned a couple of specific ways he believes he could overcome that problem to deliver his policy goals, beginning with the power to name agency heads.
Under the guise of “freedom,” the DeSantis administration including Surgeon General Joe Ladapo has established policies that have directly contributed to the measles outbreak that has spread across the state.
Yet, despite the proliferation of this disease, which has placed Florida fourth in the United States with 152 confirmed cases in 2025-26 and 145 confirmed cases so far this year, state officials have acted as if “there’s nothing to see here.”
Editor’s Note: Could YOU make it on $275 per week? These days, that will fill your gas tank and buy a pretty meager basket of groceries to last a week. […]
The 15 largest systems charged an average of 282 percent more than the Medicare rate, the study found, resulting in $22 million in profit per hospital per year.
Executives are charging patients the most in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, where average corporate hospital prices are even higher, between 320 and 365 percent more than the Medicare rate.
Weeks after Donald Trump stressed to his party that passing that voter restriction bill was the “most important thing” they could do, Senate Republicans have shelved the legislation entirely, unable to bypass the Democratic filibuster that stands in the way of its potential passage, Punchbowl News reported Thursday.
Florida is moving to close the infamous “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center in the Everglades because it has grown too expensive to operate, according to The New York Times.
The embattled facility—which has cost the state of Florida $1 million a day to run—has been beset with allegations of unsafe living conditions, abusive treatment, and protests from Native American groups over its environmental harms. Now the facility that was framed as a huge success by President Trump and Governor DeSantis may collapse in failure.
Editor’s Note: Publix announced its ‘open carry’ policy very loudly last year. A boycott by a significant number of lifelong Publix shoppers ensued. Yesterday, it appears they have started back-pedaling […]
The curriculum will describe slavery as a “necessary evil,” frame Plessy v Ferguson as a result of “the failure of Reconstruction” after the Civil War, and credit federal law that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for “decreased slave power representation.”