PantherNOW Editorial Board At the end of Pride Month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign team launched a bizarre, embarrassing and stomach-churning anti-LGBTQ ad on Twitter. In the video, he used TikTok “alpha” trends to further his twisted agenda against queer people. We, the PantherNOW Editorial Board, find these attempts to salvage his campaign atrocious, […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board Let us learn. We don’t want the higher education reforms coming out of Tallahassee. We’re not worried about indoctrination, we’re not intimidated or bullied by professors and we don’t feel silenced in our classes. The only intimidation we experience is that of our out of touch legislators who want to ban curriculum […]
Diego Diaz | Asst. News Director Continuing his crusade against alleged ‘liberal indoctrination’ within Florida’s public institutions, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled a sweeping range of proposals geared at restructuring Florida’s higher education. Policies referenced DeSantis’ rogue gallery of “divisive subjects” including prohibiting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statements within hiring practices and public universities from […]
Andres Davila / Contributing Writer As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to make immigration enforcement a priority in his agenda, the House State Affairs Committee approved a bill during the annual legislative session on Feb. 18 that would expand a 2019 law banning the establishment of sanctuary cities in the state. Although the term “sanctuary […]
Lara Coiro / Staff Writer & Samantha Soria / Contributing Writer The Florida Board of Education voted to ban critical race theory lessons in the public K-12 education curriculum on June 10 at a board meeting attended by Florida educators, parents and community leaders. The board passed an amendment that specifically prohibits critical race theory […]
Maya Washburn / Asst. News Director Part of a condominium building collapsed this morning around 1:30 a.m. in Surfside in North Miami, leaving some residents missing and others fighting for their lives. FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg tweeted out a statement addressing the tragedy at Champlain Towers South Condo, completed in 1981 with 130 units […]
Jordan Coll / News Director Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Tuesday that will require public universities and colleges to survey their students, faculty and staff on their political and ideological beliefs to protect “intellectual diversity,” according to the new bill. The State Board of Education and the Board of Governors will be required […]
