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Trustees Appointed to Florida’s New College by DeSantis Shutter School’s DEI Office

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 03, 2023 5 Comments

"If DeSantis gets his way—and he likely will—diversity, equity and inclusion efforts will be eliminated from every public college and university in Florida."...

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New College in Florida Elects Conservative as Interim President

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 25, 2023 3 Comments

"Corcoran, a Republican, is a former state House speaker and education commissioner who also served on the state Board of Governors that oversees Florida's university system"...

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Media Pounces After Florida Death Row Inmate Uses Final Words to Blast Ron DeSantis

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 25, 2023 46 Comments

"The guy murdered a police officer and a young mother in cold blood- maybe his lunatic ramblings that 'actually Ron DeSantis is worse than me' shouldn’t lead coverage of his execution."...

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Slam Of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Visit Backfires

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 22, 2023 70 Comments

"How many New Yorkers have moved to Florida? How many Floridians to NYC? How many NYCers lost jobs due to your vax mandate? How many Floridians? Years of school lost NYC v FL? Maybe watch & learn instead of the empty virtue-signaling," observed...

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University of Central Florida Adopts Radical DEI Programming

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 18, 2023 1 Comment

"The ideology that underpins the university’s DEI programming follows the basic mantras of critical race theory"...

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Ron DeSantis Proposes Limits on ESG (Environmental Social Governance)

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 14, 2023 30 Comments

"By applying arbitrary ESG financial metrics that serve no one except the companies that created them, elites are circumventing the ballot box to implement a radical ideological agenda."...

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Florida Poised to Become 26th Constitutional Carry State

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 10, 2023 58 Comments

"The bill (HB 543) would eliminate a concealed-weapons licensing process that includes people undergoing criminal background checks and completing firearms-training courses."...

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DeSantis Fires Back at Trump’s Implication He’s a Groomer: ‘I Spend My Time Delivering Results for the People of Florida’

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 08, 2023 73 Comments

"I don’t spend my time trying to smear other Republicans.”...

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FBI Charges Baltimore Woman, Florida Man in Connection With Plot to Attack Maryland’s Power Grid

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 06, 2023 34 Comments

They planned on "conducting critical infrastructure attacks, including statements about sniper attacks against substations, and how conducting a small number of attacks on electrical substations could cause a 'cascading failure.'"...

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Students and Faculty at U. Florida Already Making Demands of Incoming President Ben Sasse

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 06, 2023 9 Comments

"Maintain pre-existing commitments to inclusivity, equity and diversity"...

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AP Fact Check on Florida Requesting Menstrual Cycle Data Goes Horribly Wrong…for DeSantis Haters

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 06, 2023 61 Comments

The Associated Press' misleading headline leads to an nontroversy adeptly handled by the FL Gov. Ron DeSanits' team....

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Democrats Reveal Their *Real* Fears About Ron DeSantis Headed Into 2024

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 05, 2023 119 Comments

"Biden allies privately worry that DeSantis’s record could appeal to the same set of independent, female or suburban voters who Biden needs to court to win" ...

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Florida has More People in the Workforce Than New York

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 02, 2023 10 Comments

More positive news for Florida....

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Leftists Lose Their Minds After DeSantis Declares War on Wokeness in Higher Ed

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 02, 2023 53 Comments

"How does @RonDeSantisFL think FL universities will continue to have the rankings and status he once bragged about after he does this? Instead, he traded Florida’s future for his own, doubling down on Naziism," Colorado professor Steven Vose tweeted....

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College Board Bends The Knee To DeSantis, Drops CRT and BLM From AP African American Studies, Adds “Black Conservatives”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2023 67 Comments

NYT laments: "The College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism. It ushered out some politically fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum. And it added something new:...

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DeSantis Takes Wrecking Ball To “Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion” Bureaucracy In Florida Public Universities

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2023 57 Comments

"Prohibiting higher education institutions from using any funding, regardless of source, to support DEI, CRT, and other discriminatory initiatives"...

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DeSantis Responds to Trump’s COVID Criticism: I Got Reelected

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 31, 2023 85 Comments

"And I’m happy to say, you know, in my case not only did we win re-election, we won with the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican governor candidate has in the history of the state of Florida."...

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College Board Revising AP African American Studies Program Criticized by Ron DeSantis for Being Overly ‘Woke’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 26, 2023 20 Comments

"A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Education, Alex Lanfranconi, said the department is glad the College Board recognized that the originally submitted course curriculum is 'problematic' and was encouraged by the Board’s willingness to amend."...

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