Lynn Hatter
WLRN
Tallahassee, FL, United States
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Senate Rules Committee To Revisit Election Bill After Time Runs Out
Florida’s Senate Rules Committee is preparing to scale down a proposal that would have done away with ballot drop boxes in the name of election reform. Lawmakers will continue to discuss the bill Friday or next week, after time ran out in the committee before a vote could be taken. The plan is still under fire from Democrats and voting rights groups who say the rest of the bill makes it harder… → Read More
Florida Hospitals Restarting Elective Surgeries
Florida’s hospitals will resume doing elective and urgent surgeries Monday. It comes two weeks after the Florida Medical Association and statewide hospital → Read More
Florida Teachers Union, FEA, Calls For 10-Year, $22B Boost To Public Education
Florida’s largest teachers union is calling for a 10-year, $22 billion investment into the state’s public schools. The Florida Education Association is → Read More
Trump Calls On States To Establish 'Red Flag' Laws. Florida Has Used Its Version Nearly 1,700 Times
Following mass shootings in Ohio and Texas President Donald Trump is calling on states to adopt laws temporarily preventing someone from accessing a gun. → Read More
FWC Investigating Iguana Abuse Caught On Instagram
Last month the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission effectively declared "open season" on iguanas by allowing them to be killed on → Read More
Robocalls Prove To Be Persistent Pests Despite Efforts To Swat Them Down
Florida lawmakers approved a series of new laws last year cracking down on telemarketers. Those laws went into effect last summer, and addressed everything → Read More
Looking Ahead To 2020: Political Divide Gets Wider, Dems Get Stronger, Expect More Fights
The 2018 mid-term election is barely settled but longtime political watchers are already reading the tea-leaves for 2020. Noted Republican and Democratic → Read More
Updated: Panhandle Counties Put Backup Voting Plans In Place After Hurricane Michael
Election supervisors in the panhandle are scrambling to get back up and running ahead of election Day. In some places, that means having only a handful of → Read More
League Of Women Voters Sues Over Florida Supreme Court Appointments
The League of Women Voters of Florida is suing Governor Rick Scott over the appointment of new state supreme court justices. → Read More
Poverty In Florida Falls, But Still Above National Average
The number of Floridians living in poverty has fallen since the Great Recession. But it’s still higher than the national average. The federal government → Read More
Supreme Court To Hear Oral Arguments In School Funding Lawsuit Nov. 8
A long-running lawsuit over whether the state is properly funding its public schools is now before the Florida Supreme Court. Oral arguments have been → Read More
The FEA Teachers Union Sues The Florida Legislature. Again.
Florida’s statewide teacher’s union is once again suing the legislature—this time over a new law that could directly impact its membership. It’s the latest → Read More
It's Been 50 Years Since Florida Teachers Went On Strike. Today, It's Illegal For Them To Do So.
Teachers in several states have gone on strike in recent months, protesting for better pay and working conditions. But that’s not the case in Florida, and → Read More
Bundled Constitutional Amendments Likely To Confuse Voters
Florida voters will pick a slate of new state leaders, local legislative representatives, city and county officials and toward the end, if they make it-- → Read More
Florida Orange Juice Named On EU's List Of Products For Potential Tariffs
President Donald Trump is threatening to put tariffs on steel and aluminum imported into the United States, and Friday the European Union released a list of products it says it will tax in retaliation—including Orange Juice. The most recent Florida orange crop estimate is only more bad news to an industry already on the brink. The state will only get about 45 million boxes of oranges, down more… → Read More
Impending Failure of Sexual Harassment, Human Trafficking Bills Draws Ire
Not all bills will make it through the annual legislative session, And this year, the impending failure of several high-profile measures is raising → Read More
Lawmakers Agree on Hospital Funding And Budget Deal; Session Could End This Weekend
The Florida legislative session is heading into overtime after a disagreement over how to fund hospitals stalled negotiations. The two chambers reached an → Read More
A Move To Ban Offshore Oil And Gas Drilling Gets Underway
Florida voters could be asked to ban oil drilling off Florida’s coasts. The proposal got the green-light Thursday before a Constitution Revision Commission → Read More
FEA President Says More Could Follow Broward's Challenge To New Charter Law
Broward County schools will soon launch a challenge to a new state education law that steers more local dollars to charter schools and the head of the → Read More
Russian Hackers Targeted Tallahassee-Based Elections Company
Russian military attempts to hack last year’s presidential election were aimed at a Tallahassee-based company. The information comes from the leak of a classified document from the National Security Agency. According to the document, the Russian military targeted the company VR systems, which serves most of Florida’s 67 supervisor of elections offices by providing software, voter registration… → Read More