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EPISODE · Mar 21, 2025 · 50 MIN

Property tax elimination, consumer sentiment dips in Florida, ‘Your Florida’ legislative session week 3 and weekly news briefing

from The Florida Roundup

This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke about a bill to study the impact if property taxes were eliminated with state Sen. Shevrin Jones, who sits on several committees slated to take up the legislation (04:04). Then, we spoke about a dip in consumer sentiment in Florida with Mihaela Pintea, chair of FIU’s economics department (22:00). Plus, we checked in with WUSF’s state government reporter Douglas Soule for an update on week 3 of the legislative session (33:43). And later, we bring you more news from the week including a federal judge’s ruling to deny a request to block Florida's social media ban (38:21), an update on defluoridation efforts (41:26), and the city of Fort Myers Council's vote to block city police from entering into a federal government agreement on immigration operations (44:01). And we open up our mailbag to share some listener emails (45:44).

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