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Photo of the Day

It’s officially May!
Today’s Photo of the Day was taken by Elizabeth Johnson of her grandson C.J. and she calls it, “Growing up Navarre.”

Session ends with $101.5 billion budget

Florida lawmakers passed a $101.5 billion state budget Friday and ended a 60-day legislative session that gave Gov. Ron DeSantis many of his top priorities.

The House and Senate adjourned “sine die” — the traditional end of session — at 2:40 p.m. after a flurry of activity that included passing the budget and approving a repeal of the state’s no-fault auto insurance system and a revamp of the property-insurance system.

Lawmakers dodge delay on athlete pay

With minutes left in the 2021 legislative session, lawmakers on Friday reversed course on delaying the implementation of a law allowing student athletes at Florida colleges and universities to profit from their names and images — with a controversial addition.

Juana’s regatta on calendar

Sailors, mark Sept. 10-12 on your calendar for the 31st Annual Juana’s Good Time Regatta. The Board of County Commissioners approved the event application at its April 27 meeting, including giving permission to allow overnight camper parking in the boat trailer lot through the weekend. Organizers expect about 200 sailing participants per day. The event […]

Weekly roundup: Big changes in the eleventh hour

Lawmakers picked up the pace as the clock wound down on the 2021 legislative session, with Republicans calmly slipping in last-minute changes and Democrats frenziedly — and futilely — trying to stave them off.

Eleventh-hour amendments addressed some of this year’s most contentious issues, such as a proposal to ban transgender female athletes from competing on girls’ high-school and women’s college teams.

Republican lawmakers pass elections overhaul

With time running out before the end of this year’s legislative session, Florida lawmakers signed off Thursday night on a controversial elections bill that would make it harder for voters to cast ballots by mail.

Republican lawmakers backed away from more-stringent proposals contained in earlier versions of the elections overhaul. But the bill continued to draw fierce opposition from Democrats who said it would put up barriers to voting.

Lawmakers sign off on tax package

A $196.3 million tax package is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk, after lawmakers Friday signed off on a series of proposals, including sales-tax “holidays” for back-to-school shopping, hurricane-season preparations and encouraging people to get out for some entertainment and recreation.

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