Capital Report

April 6, 2021


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On tonight’s program: The death of South Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings means a special election soon. We’ll have a preview; A bill banning transgender women from playing on women’s teams in scholastic sports is headed for the floor of the Florida House; The worry is that too many foreign adversaries are funneling research money through Florida’s colleges and universities so those countries can steal the fruits of that research. Florida lawmakers want to tighten up that process, but there are those who say it’s an overreaction; Legislators want Florida to create a tracking system for rape kits so victims can be better informed about what’s going on in their cases; Floridians from across the state come to the Capitol to speak in favor of a bill to do away with permanent alimony payments; And a total collapse of the massive holding pond at an abandoned Manatee County phosphate mine remains a possibility, even as many worry about the contaminated water being drained from the pond to prevent a collapse.
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