Florida's recap – Highlights from around the state – August 26th
Bottom Line: Your daily recap of the some of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you in South Florida.
- Florida’s Democrats failed to gain the votes needed to hold a special session to take up additional gun control measures in our state. Three-fifths of elected state reps and senators would have had to approve the measure. Well fewer than half did
- According to attorney’s representing victims, additional arrests are forthcoming in the deaths of residents of the now shuttered Hollywood Hills Rehabilitation Center for the deaths of at least 14 seniors who died of exposure in the wake of Hurricane Irma two years ago
- The Florida Education Association is calling for a ten percent increase in state funding for education annually over the next ten years which would result in an additional $24 billion in state spending on education. That would equate to an additional $767 in spending per student.
- The first hearing in advance of the proposed and recently passed expansions of toll roads is in Tampa tomorrow. The proposals include expanding the turnpike to Tampa, creating a highway between Polk and Collier counties and expansion of the Suncoast Parkway to the Georgia border.
- Three people in Miami have been confirmed to have dengue fever transmitted by mosquitoes.