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State Rep. Fentrice Driskell first debated in the Florida House chamber when she was 17 and a student at Lake Gibson High School in Lakeland.
Driskell went to Tallahassee the summer before her senior year to participate in Florida Girls State, an educational program for selected rising seniors that simulates the functions of state government. During the weeklong session, Driskell met Florida’s governor, the late Lawton Chiles, a Lakeland native.
In an indication of what lay ahead, fellow participants elected Driskell governor of the student delegation.
“It completely changed my life,” Driskell said last week. “Before that, I thought I wanted to be an engineer. But after that experience, I fell in love with government. I decided to study it in college, which I did. I decided I would go to law school so that I could learn the language of government.”
Nikki Fried confronts DEP Secretary Noah Valenstein over Piney Point
Agriculture Commissioner
Nikki Fried wants answers on what the Department of Environmental protection knew about Piney Point before the environmental disaster last month.
In a testy exchange with department Secretary
Noah Valenstein during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, the Commissioner attempted to shakedown Valenstein over a
reported letter to DEP predicting a breach at the
Attorney General
Ashley Moody, a Republican, attempted to diffuse the situation by sharing that she had talked at length with Valenstein and his staff. She suggested Cabinet members go to DEP staff with detailed questions.
But Fried continued on with one more question.
DeSantis declares Florida’s ‘state of emergency’ over, overrides local Covid restrictions
Updated May 04, 2021;
Posted May 04, 2021
Surrounded by lawmakers, Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis speaks at the end of a legislative session, Friday, April 30, 2021, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla.AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
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Declaring Florida’s COVID-19 emergency over, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed an executive order invalidating all remaining local emergency COVID orders and signed a bill into law that bars businesses, schools and government entities across Florida from asking anyone to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.
“I think it’s the evidence-based thing to do,” DeSantis said at a St. Petersburg restaurant where he signed the bill with House Speaker Chris Sprowls and Senate President Wilton Simpson at his side. “I think folks that are saying that they need to be policing people at this point, if you’re say