Opinion | Amendment 3's Seventh Bullet Is the Takeover
108 Florida cities lose 90% or more of their homestead tax base. One line in Amendment 3, the seventh spending bullet, lets Tallahassee ban local spending by ordinary law. Add a fee ban, state grants and a law letting the governor run towns that miss payroll, and that's the plan.
Geico Will Cut 114 Jobs Tied to Its Lakeland Office, Starting Dec. 31
Geico filed a state notice for 114 permanent layoffs of remote workers tied to its Lakeland office, from Dec. 31 through about April 30. Lakeland already has the highest jobless rate in the region.