DOZIER SCHOOL FOR BOYS The state last searched for additional burials of former residents at the Dozier School in 2015. With over 180 boys still unaccounted for, the team of University of South Florida experts will be back at the site conducting additional detection methods. Hampering the efforts is the growth of woods on the site Read more about Issues of Interest[…]
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Keep Our Constitution Clean, a recently formed political committee, wants to raise the percentage for passage of a proposed constitutional amendment from 60 percent to sixty-six and two-thirds percent. The group filed the proposal with the Florida Division of Elections on March 14th. TRAINS Virgin Trains (formerly known as Brightline) plans to Read more about Issues of Interest[…]
ALZHEIMER’S GRANT FUNDING Thirty projects will receive a total of $4.8 million to support research leading to the prevention and possible cure for Alzheimer’s disease. Funding is provided through the Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program. More information about the grants and the grant recipients may be found here. MEDICAID The federal government approved the Read more about Issues of Interest[…]
Bills that passed the 2017 legislative session include: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES Drug dealers who distribute fentanyl, an opioid painkiller 100 times more powerful than morphine, in which a customer dies from an overdose will be charged with murder. A trafficking charge would also be allowed for possession of four grams of the drug. Fentanyl abuse has Read more about Bills that Passed[…]
FLORIDA’S POPULATION The recently released Florida Population Report by Cushman & Wakefield predicts the state’s population may reach 20.7 million by the end of 2016. Additionally, they report that Forth Myers experienced 3.3 percent growth, the largest percentage in the state with an estimated 701,900 residents. Numbers released earlier this year by the U.S. Census showed Read more about Issues of Interest[…]