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New College Takeover of USF Sarasota-Manatee: The Lelgislature at Its Worst
Florida legislators used private budget conference negotiations to strip the University of South Florida of its Sarasota-Manatee campus, transferring the property to New College, bypassing public debate through the state's 72-hour budget review rule. Originally intended to promo…
An epigram of uncertain origin holds that laws are like sausages – it’s better not to see them being made. That’s why Florida legislators have been known to joke about their workplace being a sausage factory.
That’s never more so than when the Legislature gets around – usually very late – to the only thing it really has to do, the annual state budget.
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Sourced from FlaglerLive · indexed by Statura on June 15, 2026. Statura indexes Florida political news and tags it by industry and jurisdiction so government-affairs teams can monitor signal without scanning every outlet by hand. Read the full story at FlaglerLive ↗
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