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(The Center Square) — Florida utility regulators approved requests this week to cut customer rates for two of Florida’s biggest electricity providers. The Public Service Commission held its monthly meeting Tuesday and approved Tampa Electric and Duke Energy Florida’s requests to lower electricity rates, citing lower-than-expected fuel costs. Duke EnergyContinue Reading

(The Center Square) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, over the course of his governorship, has invited many people to move to Florida and flee from what he claims is oppression in Democratic-led cities and states. After Democratic-led cities and states adopted anti-police policies, he and the Florida legislature created aContinue Reading

(The Center Square) – West Virginia and Indiana are leading a group of 25 states asking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to declare the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule on coal, natural gas and oil power plants to be declared unlawful. The newContinue Reading

(The Center Square) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned protestors on Wednesday on the Sunshine State’s college campuses that destructive behavior won’t be tolerated. The second-term GOP governor said at the University of Florida that these protestors have stormed and graffitied campus buildings, many at elite colleges and universities likeContinue Reading

(The Center Square) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a tax relief bill into law on Tuesday. The second-term Republican governor signed House Bill 7073 in Cape Canaveral, saying it is important to provide relief to Floridians particularly since the state is running a large budget surplus and paying downContinue Reading

(The Center Square) – A coalition of 23 attorneys general led by Utah and South Carolina have called on Congress to permanently defund a United Nations agency after learning of its ties to the terrorist organization Hamas. In a letter to congressional leaders, they said, “The United States must stopContinue Reading

(The Center Square) — State officials say Florida’s tourism marketing organization, Visit Florida, returned only 58 cents for every dollar spent on it in 2023. The report by the Office of Economic and Demographic Research found that Visit Florida’s public marketing during fiscal years 2019-22 generated a positive 0.58 returnContinue Reading

(The Center Square) — The Florida Public Service Commission approved the request this week by Tampa Electric Co. to recover nearly $135 million in repair costs from tropical storms from 2018 to 2022. The PSC ordered that any under-recovery or over-recovery be recovered or refunded through adjustments to the energyContinue Reading

(The Center Square) — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a couple of bills into law on Thursday that he says are designed to prevent global elites from forcefully taking away the rights of Floridians. House Bill 989 will increase protection for customers of financial institutions, from unwarranted cancellations and restrictions. TheContinue Reading