Author: Leslie Bolden
![Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Targeting Mandates Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Targeting Mandates](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Florida-Gov.-Ron-DeSantis-4.jpeg)
Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Targeting Mandates
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Source: Governor's Office)
With opposition to COVID-19 mandates a key part of his political brand, Gov. Ron DeSantis on [...]
![Teachers Unions Challenge New Florida Law Teachers Unions Challenge New Florida Law](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Judge-Court-Law-Justice.jpeg)
Teachers Unions Challenge New Florida Law
TFP File Photo
Teachers unions have quickly filed a constitutional challenge to a new Florida law that places additional restrictions on public-em [...]
![Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Death Warrant For Duane Owen In 2 Brutal Murders Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Death Warrant For Duane Owen In 2 Brutal Murders](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Duane-Owen.jpeg)
Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Death Warrant For Duane Owen In 2 Brutal Murders
Duane Owen (TFP FILE)
In what would be Florida’s fourth execution in less than four months, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a death warrant fo [...]
![Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Union Restrictions Bill Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Union Restrictions Bill](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Florida-Gov.-Ron-DeSantis-3.jpeg)
Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Union Restrictions Bill
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (TFP File Photo)
Potentially setting the stage for a legal fight, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a bill tha [...]
![Trial Starts On Medicaid Trans Care In Florida Trial Starts On Medicaid Trans Care In Florida](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Florida-Court-Law-Legal.jpeg)
Trial Starts On Medicaid Trans Care In Florida
TFP File Photo
Amid a series of legal and political battles in Florida about transgender people, a federal judge Tuesday heard opening arguments i [...]
![Groups Launch Ballot Drive On Florida Abortion Rights Groups Launch Ballot Drive On Florida Abortion Rights](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Abortion-Pregnancy-Law.jpeg)
Groups Launch Ballot Drive On Florida Abortion Rights
(TFP File Photo)
Taking aim at “government interference” in abortion decisions, a coalition of groups Monday formally began a drive to try to pass [...]
![Ballot Fight Eyed On Florida Abortion Rights Ballot Fight Eyed On Florida Abortion Rights](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Vote-Early-Hillsborough-County.jpeg)
Ballot Fight Eyed On Florida Abortion Rights
Source: TFP File Photo
After the Legislature and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approved a law to prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, abort [...]
![Florida Lawmakers Pass Treatment Ban for Trans Minors Florida Lawmakers Pass Treatment Ban for Trans Minors](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Trinity-Medical-Group-.jpeg)
Florida Lawmakers Pass Treatment Ban for Trans Minors
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Teeing up the issue for Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers on Thursday passed a plan that would prevent doctors and other healt [...]
![Darryl Barwick Becomes 3rd Florida Death Row Inmate Executed This Year Darryl Barwick Becomes 3rd Florida Death Row Inmate Executed This Year](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Darryl-Barwick.jpeg)
Darryl Barwick Becomes 3rd Florida Death Row Inmate Executed This Year
Darryl Barwick, 56 (Source: FDLE)
Darryl Barwick was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday for a 1986 murder in Bay County, hours after the U [...]
![Florida Death Row Inmate Darryl Barwick To Be Executed Today After US Supreme Court Denial Florida Death Row Inmate Darryl Barwick To Be Executed Today After US Supreme Court Denial](https://staging.tampafp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Darryl-Barwick.jpeg)
Florida Death Row Inmate Darryl Barwick To Be Executed Today After US Supreme Court Denial
Darryl Barwick, 56 (Source: FDLE)
Hours before Darryl Barwick was slated to be put to death by lethal injection, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesd [...]