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  Republicans Are Already Trying to Stop Felons From Voting

  December 7 at 1:16 p.m.

  The best news for Democrats from the recent midterm elections was that Florida's racist and ridiculously difficult road to voting rights restoration for felons was overturned  — you know, the one that stopped one in five black voters from casting ballots. Now it looks as if Republicans don't want to...

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  Critics Slam Florida Senate President for Taking Cushy Job With Private-Prison Giant and ICE Contractor

  December 5 at 1:03 p.m.

  A whole host of civil-rights advocates believe that the private, for-profit prison industry should not exist. But former Florida State Senate President Joe Negron appears to, ahem, lean in the opposite direction: Politico Florida first reported yesterday that the outgoing Negron will take a cushy gig as...

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  The Trump Administration Let Florida Make It Harder to Pay for Health Care

  December 4 at 1:48 p.m.

  Florida currently ranks 45th of the 50 states when it comes to the number of residents living without health insurance. It's 48th in health performance Now the Trump administration yesterday agreed to cut Medicaid benefits. The weird rationale: to see if that "helps" people sign up for Medicaid. The logic is...

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  In Wake of #ThisIsOurLane, Broward Medical Professionals and Nonprofits Team Up to Distribute Gun Locks

  December 4 at 8:01 a.m.

  Jackie Rosen lost her only child to suicide in 1986. Mitch Rosen was just 24 years old. 32 years later, Rosen has funneled her grief into the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention Inc., or FISP. She serves as the Executive Director/CEO and one of the founding members of the nonprofit devoted to preventing suicide through education and resource. The group's latest venture is signing onto Broward County's League of Women Voters' nonpartisan gun safety campaign: Lock It Up!

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  Tear Gas Reportedly Used on Migrant Kids Came From Florida Company

  November 29 at 1:06 p.m.

  It's legal to walk up to the U.S. border and apply for asylum. But U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents decided to fire smoke grenades and tear-gas canisters at members of a migrant caravan at the Tijuana border over the weekend. Under international law, tear gas is a chemical weapon...

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  "Impossible" Wages Keep Broward Airport Employees Working Through the Holidays

  November 22 at 9:30 a.m.

  Every Thanksgiving, Stevenson Tibel shows up at Fort Lauderdale International Airport for his work as a wheelchair attendant, in a job that pays him so little he can't afford to miss a single shift. On a day of family and celebration, Tibel will be working while his wife and ten-year-old son are eating Thanksgiving dinner, just like he has for the past six years. He has no other choice but to work through the holidays.