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3 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
A nonprofit bringing traumatized military veterans together with service dogs is closer to getting $750,000 in the state budget via a request from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. The Senate Health and Human Services and House Health Care Appropriations committees have tentatively agreed to that level of funding for the K9s for Warriors — Veterans Suicide Prevention Program.
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3 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis says “the best is yet to come” when it comes to education in Florida. But in his first comments since the Board of Governors (BOG) rejected Santa Ono’s bid to be President of the University of Florida, DeSantis notably declined to touch on the topic.
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4 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
It appears House and Senate negotiators are aligned on how much state money should go toward helping Jacksonville build its new fairgrounds. While nothing is guaranteed yet, both the Senate Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Appropriations Committee and the House State Administration Budget Subcommittee are offering $3.25 million for the 82-acre facility next to the Equestrian Center on Normandy Boulevard on the Westside.
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4 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
Governors of southern states, led by Gov. Ron DeSantis, are teaming up to ask Washington for more control over the red snapper fishing season in the Atlantic. Govs.
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4 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
The Ron DeSantis administration is taking a page from the man who defeated him in the 2024 presidential race when it comes to the most enduring scandal of his administration thus far. “Governor DeSantis and Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis have been subject to politically motivated lawfare in the state of Florida, and now the same lawfare is being perpetrated against President Trump and his nominees,” spox Bryan Griffin told Fox News Digital.
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4 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
After an acrimonious process and personal attacks against him, Santa Ono failed in his attempt to become the new University of Florida President after one of the most dramatic meetings of the Florida Board of Governors in history. This throws the decision back to the UF Trustees for a second choice, presumably one without so much ideological baggage. The rejection of the University of Michigan President came after U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, U.S. Rep.
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5 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
Florida’s Attorney General found the lighter side of a brutal practice during a recent press conference about undocumented immigrants. Asked about a cockfighting ring involving illegal immigrants that predecessor Ashley Moody had apparently been looking into, Attorney General James Uthmeier said he was in “month 3 on the job” and would have to “look into the case.”“I don’t like the idea of cockfighting in the state,” Uthmeier said.
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5 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
While Shad Khan’s Jacksonville Jaguars have been among the worst-performing teams in pro sports in terms of wins and losses, locals just can’t quit the Pakistani-born billionaire. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from a University of North Florida survey, in which voters across political, demographic and geographic divides express their esteem for the NFL owner. All told, 57% of locals like Khan, with just 37% on the opposite side of the proposition.
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5 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
Republicans, Democrats and independents in Jacksonville all agree that people who go to City Hall should do so without their firearms. A new poll from the University of North Florida finds 76% of locals don’t want people to strap up for public comment, while just 23% believe that guns are necessary accoutrements for petitioning local government.
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5 days ago | 
floridapolitics.com | A.G. Gancarski |A. G. Gancarski
In a positive sign for her re-election, a new survey from the University of North Florida shows Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan has much higher favorable numbers than the Jacksonville City Council that has thwarted her for two years. And it’s not even close. Deegan, a Democrat, enjoys 62% approval against 37% disapproval. Only 2% of respondents don’t know how they feel about her, suggesting that she is increasingly well-defined.
