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Is the world’s largest military service dog charity raising money on a heartwarming misrepresentation?
It’s a straight-to-the-heart motto that has helped non-profit K9’s For Warriors raise more than $130 million from donors: “We rescue the dog and the dog rescues the veteran.” The Ponte Vedra-based charity promises donors that their money will be used to rescue dogs...
Florida Center for Government Accountability WINS court fight to unseal investigation of Daytona Beach Shores cops
A Circuit Court judge on Monday morning issued an oral ruling that will unseal public records involving the investigation of two Daytona Beach Shores police officers who hand-cuffed their three-year-old son and twice briefly confined him in a city holding cell in a...
Moonlighting ex-Collier County deputy manager lobbied for county vendor in ‘apparent’ conflict of interest
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...
Top taxpayer-funded anti-abortion center in Florida abruptly shuts down amid IRS trouble
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...
Storied activist and two-time Supreme Court winner moves on to new controversy
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...
Diamond’s Dogs: After city councilman’s surprise exit, troubles exposed at K9s For Warriors charity
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...