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As Florida battles the Biden administration about a rule that would require health-care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a Louisiana-based appeals court Wednesday scaled back an injunction that had blocked the rule nationwide.

Wildlife officials said Wednesday an infusion of projects to improve water quality is a good start, as they seek to avoid a recurrence of large numbers of manatee deaths due to a lack of seagrass and degraded water in the Indian River Lagoon.

Continuing his administration’s campaign against critical race theory, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday teased legislation that he said would, in part, allow parents to sue schools that teach the theory.

With thousands of new policies a week pouring into Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-backed insurer’s board on Wednesday approved seeking 11 percent across-the-board rate increases next year.

Preparing to approve proposed rate increases, leaders of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. expressed continued frustration Tuesday at rapid growth in the state-backed insurer — and that rates aren’t higher.

“At the end of the day, from our perspective, we continue to grow in a company that is supposed to be shrinking,” Citizens Board of Governors Chairman Carlos Beruff said as committees met in advance of a full board meeting Wednesday. “And that is because we have huge advantages in the marketplace that other companies don’t have.”

Florida college officials are trying to figure out what’s behind a continuing drop in state college enrollment, which analysts project could decline by more than 9 percent over the next five years if the trend persists.

The numbers of Florida hospital inpatients and intensive-care unit patients with COVID-19 increased slightly in data released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A House Republican has filed a proposal that would create a process for shifting public health-care systems to nonprofit organizations.

Florida’s aerospace agency pushed forward with negotiations Tuesday to bring 2,100 spacecraft manufacturing jobs to Brevard County over the next three years.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Senate President Wilton Simpson are two of the most-powerful political figures in Florida.