Proposed Constitutional Amendments, Youth Assembly, and more
September 5, 2026 Property tax isn't the only thing on your ballot Amendment 3 has soaked up all the oxygen, and fairly so. But when your sample ballot shows up in October, you'll find three state amendments, not one. All three were put there by the Legislature, all three need 60% to pass, and all three touch the money that pays for things like lagoon improvements. Amendment 1 (Budget Stabilization Fund). Raises the cap on the state's rainy day fund from 10% to 25% of net ge
Youth Assembly, SB 180, and more
August 29, 2026 Weekly Newsletter Florida's Textbooks Went Quiet. The Lagoon Didn't. In the summer of 2024, Florida's Department of Education asked science textbook publishers to soften how their books talk about climate change. WUSF and The Hechinger Report obtained the correspondence: in one marine science text, "climate change" became "changes in the environment." A line about climate-driven deaths worldwide was reduced to a vague statement about CO2 and human health. An e