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WUSF/YouTubeCity Council member Brandi Gabbard makes her case to be mayor. Then, questions around Florida’s push to redraw political maps and a close call on the tracks raises school bus safety concerns. -
stock.adobe.comNew limits on SNAP purchases are meant to encourage better nutrition. But not all high-sugar items are excluded, raising questions about consistency. Plus, childbirth dangers for Black women and insight on a controversial police firing.
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North Florida's flat, rural cattle pastures — longtime dumping grounds of South Florida's sewage sludge — will close their gates to feces-filled trucks by 2028. That's owing to a provision of Florida's Farm Bill. -
More than two-thirds of U.S. Latino voters disapprove of President Trump in a national survey by FIU's Latino Public Opinion Forum — portending the swing bloc's significant return to the Democrats after pivoting to the GOP in 2024. Florida, though, was the poll's outlier. -
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Zarzaur LawA grand jury indicted Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky of Destin after investigators alleged he mistakenly removed the liver and not the spleen of a patient during a procedure in Walton County. -
Screen Shot/Florida ChannelIt's been two months since the state dropped a suit against the federal government that was supposedly delaying the changes that would open health coverage to more than 42,000 children. Why? That's a mystery.
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