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According to a study commissioned by the legislature, the state lost between $1 million and $3.3 million on greyhound racing in 2012. [11] In November 2018, Florida voters passed a constitutional referendum banning greyhound racing at tracks after December 31, 2020.
Marco Antonio Rubio (/ ˈ r uː b i oʊ /; born May 28, 1971) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Florida, a seat he has held since 2011.
Many of the University of Florida's graduate schools have received top-50 national rankings from U.S. News & World Report with the school of education 25th, Florida's Hough School of Business 25th, Florida's Medical School (research) tied for 43rd, the Engineering School tied for 45th, the Levin College of Law tied for 31st, and the Nursing ...
By the end of the 1946–1947 school year, 954 men were enrolled at the Tallahassee Branch. The following semester, the Florida Legislature returned the Florida State College for Women to coeducational status and renamed it Florida State University, and the University of Florida began open enrollment of female students. Thereafter, all of the ...
July 31: Florida recorded 21,683 new cases in one day, the highest at any time in the pandemic. Florida's test positivity rate reached 18.82%, driven by the delta variant of COVID-19. [124] August 6: The state continued to break records with 23,909 new cases on Friday, August 6, according to the CDC. [125]
Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), is a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices; and subsection (b) of Section 4 ...
John Marshall Kernochan, member of President John F. Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women, which helped lead to women's rights legislation in the late 1960s [41] Jay Lefkowitz (1987), Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush for Domestic Policy [42] Kathleen McGinty (J.D.)—Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (1995–98) [43]