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    A Push to Restore Florida’s Swamp Quickly: Governor DeSantis Calls for More Money and Authority, But Will He Get It?

    February 21, 2025By Robert Lopez

    The historic natural Everglades was a truly spectacular and one-of-a-kind ecosystem that could not be found anywhere else on the planet. Stretching over miles and miles of Florida, water flowed through the sawgrass of the Everglades uninterrupted, moving south all the way into the Florida Bay.[i]  However, through the years of Florida’s development, the Everglades […]

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    We Speak for the Trees: Public Backlash to Florida’s 2024–25 Great Outdoors Initiative

    November 22, 2024By Kharla Salazar

    Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax is aptly titled after its main character: a mystical, short orange being who is the guardian of a Truffula forest and speaks on behalf of the trees and all the creatures who reside there.[i] The Lorax’s appearances are purposefully timed as he swiftly appears when the first Truffula tree is chopped, […]

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    Hard Times for Hill at the Hard Rock

    October 3, 2024By Kevin Nakfour

    The nation was stunned when videos surfaced on social media depicting Tyreek Hill, the star wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins—in handcuffs—outside the Hard Rock Stadium just hours before the Dolphins’ opening game on September 8, 2024. A routine traffic stop escalated into a tense confrontation.[i] When the Miami Police Department decided to release the […]

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    Roadblocks for DeSantis’ New Immigrant Transport Law: Analyzing SB 1718

    October 25, 2023By Daniel DeIzaguirre

        Many new bills signed into law have made Florida politics a widely discussed topic. One of these bills, SB 1718, was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on May 9, 2023. The law took effect on July 1, 2023. The bill was labeled as the “strongest anti-illegal immigration legislation in the country” […]

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