by Rachel Heimann Mercader | Jul 17, 2023
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...
by Bob Norman | Jun 22, 2023
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...
by Diane Roberts | Jun 12, 2023
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...
by Susan Clark Armstrong | May 11, 2023
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...
by Bob Norman | Apr 27, 2023
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...
by Bob Norman | Mar 6, 2023
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...
