Former Collier County Deputy Manager Sean Callahan was quietly fired in January of 2022 after county staff discovered he was secretly working as a lobbyist for a powerful Washington D.C. lobbying firm – a moonlighting job that violated county policies, ethical...
Yohanka Reyes considers her anti-abortion crusade nothing short of a mission from God. Reyes, who goes by “Yoi,” often tells her story of birthing a son at the age of 15 after being raped by her stepfather in Cuba, and how it inspired her life’s work to make sure all...
Fane Lozman insists he didn’t set out to become a constitutional gadfly or a perpetual pain in the backside of elected officials. He wasn’t looking to be a First Amendment hero. When he came back to his native South Florida, all he wanted, he says, was to live on the...
It’s a question still whispered at Jacksonville City Hall: Why did recently reelected Councilman Rory Diamond leave his cushy $300,000-plus job last November? Diamond, after all, not only made that huge salary from the nonprofit K9s For Warriors, which provides...
When U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds is mentioned in the media, his name is routinely preceded by the same two words: “rising star.” Donalds has completed just one two-year term in Congress but is already a serious force in his party. The Naples Republican dominated the...
It started with something most journalists in Florida will tell you is commonplace: a public records request with a state agency that takes a ridiculous amount of time to fulfill. But Mike DeForest, a veteran investigative reporter with News 6 in Orlando, didn’t...