Day: March 23, 2025

  • Florida to Feds: Keep Your Strings—DeSantis Sends Back Nearly $1 Trillion

    Florida to Feds: Keep Your Strings—DeSantis Sends Back Nearly $1 Trillion

    How’s this story for surreal? In a highly Nazi-like, or possibly fascist fashion, Florida’s dictatorial Governor Ron DeSantis tried unsuccessfully for a year to return a trillion dollars in unwanted federal funds “because of the strings attached.” He repeatedly called Biden’s Governor Support hotline, and pressed ‘1,’ then ‘6’, then ‘5’, then pressed zero about…

  • Rising star in politics shared views with Jax entrepreneurs

    Rising star in politics shared views with Jax entrepreneurs

    Byron Donalds, who may be Florida’s next governor, is sympatico with President Trump and supports Trump’s efforts to slash government waste. That assertion got him a raucous round of applause at a speech in Jacksonville Friday. Donalds spoke to entrepreneurs in the CEO Leaderboard Roundtable at the River Club. Several local elected officials attended. In…