Should School Board Members Be Paid $35,000 a Year? Voters May Decide in 2022.
After debating whether county school board members should be paid, and if ending salaries would threaten diversity on the boards, a House panel took a first step toward letting voters decide the issue...
View ArticleFlorida Supreme Court Justices Again Reject Recreational Pot Amendment...
Justices, in a 5-2 decision, said a proposal by the political committee Sensible Florida included ballot wording that would mislead voters. By the same margin, the court in April rejected a...
View ArticleDealing Florida Legislature 2nd Blow in 2 Days, Federal Judge Blocks Law...
The law, passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature this spring and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, would impose a $3,000 limit on contributions to political committees collecting petition signatures...
View ArticleFlorida Realtors’ Support for Ballot Initiative to Protect Affordable Housing...
If approved by 60 percent of voters, the proposed ballot measure would establish in the Florida Constitution the State Housing Trust Fund and the Local Government Housing Trust Fund. It would require...
View ArticleFloridians for Solar Choice Renews Ballot Initiative
Floridians for Solar Choice is organizing a massive statewide effort to collect the required petitions to get the initiative on the ballot. The language has already passed the Florida Supreme Court’s...
View ArticleGOP Lawmakers Back Prohibition on Innumerable Ballot Initiatives
Florida voters in recent years have approved high-profile initiatives about issues such as raising the minimum wage and broadly legalizing medical marijuana. Such initiatives would be barred in the...
View ArticleHow Palm Coast City Council Skirted Charter Change on Its Own Salaries Even...
Palm Coast City Council member Nick Klufas, like many residents, thought council members' salaries could only be changed by charter--not, as Mayor Alfin is proposing, by mere council ordinance. His...
View ArticleSchool District’s Half-Penny Sales Surtax Renewal, for Tech and Safety, Will...
The Flagler County Commission Monday evening approved on a 4-0 vote placing a referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot to renew for the third time the school district's half-penny sales surtax. The vote was not...
View ArticleBallot Effort to Legalize Recreational Marijuana in Florida Launches
Trulieve, the state’s largest medical-marijuana operator, and country-music legends The Bellamy Brothers are backing a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana...
View ArticleAmendment 3: Is Yet Another Homestead Exemptions Needed, Or Prudent?
Florida voters could offer significant property tax exemptions to Florida’s teachers, firefighters, active-duty members of the U.S. military, and other specified professions, amid a relatively hostile...
View ArticleLeann Pennington, Theresa Pontieri, Will Furry and Cathy Heighter Win,...
For Flagler County and Palm Coast, it is an election of new faces: four races, four newcomers to elected office: Leann Pennington won a seat on the County Commission, Theresa Pontieri and Cathy...
View ArticleFlorida Voters Reject Additional Property Tax Breaks or Ending Constitutional...
Florida voters late Tuesday appeared to have rejected three proposed constitutional amendments that would have provided property-tax breaks and eliminated the state’s Constitution Revision Commission....
View ArticleBeverly Beach Holds a Mail-Only Election to Decide 5 Charter Amendments
The Town of Beverly Beach starting this week is holding an unusual mail-only election to decide five charter amendments. The results will be announced on March 7. The post Beverly Beach Holds a...
View ArticleRecreational Pot Proposal Has the Signatures to Get on 2024 Ballot, But for...
Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana have passed a preliminary hurdle to get on the 2024 ballot, submitting more than enough petition signatures...
View ArticleGroup Seeks to Legalize Homegrown Medical Pot with 2024 Ballot Proposal
A political committee has started moving forward with a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow medical-marijuana patients and patients’ caregivers to grow cannabis at home. The post Group...
View ArticleBackers of Recreational Pot Initiative Reach Halfway Point in Signatures for...
The Florida Division of Elections had received 420,072 valid signatures from the political committee Smart & Safe Florida as of Wednesday, according to the division’s website. The committee would...
View ArticleFlorida Attorney General Ashley Moody Wants Supreme Court to Kill...
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has submitted ballot language to the Florida Supreme Court for a proposed 2024 constitutional amendment to legalize recreational cannabis in Florida. She also...
View ArticleVoters Approved an Amendment For Racial Equity in Districts. DeSantis Wants...
A lawsuit filed by voting-rights groups focuses a Jacksonville-area district that helped elect Black Democrat Al Lawson until a DeSantis plan redrew it and installed two white Republicans instead. Now...
View ArticleSo You Want to Recall a Council Member or Write an Ordinance? Palm Coast...
The Palm Coast City Council in its 24th year is codifying its own referendum and recall process--the method by which residents may pitch or force the reconsideration of an ordinance, amend the city...
View ArticlePalm Coast in Ugly Meeting Votes to Lower Tax Rate Substantially and Add New,...
In another unseemly, disconcerting meeting that included coarse language and flaring tempers from the dais and rowdy and name-calling behavior from a floor thronged with residents, the Palm Coast City...
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