In this episode: Led by a Donald Trump-appointed judge, a federal appeals court struck down Florida’s infamous “Stop WOKE Act,” a Ron DeSantis-championed law meant to censor university professors on subjects like racism and sexism. But Florida and other GOP-controlled Southern states are working on another way to control what can be said, taught or studied on college campuses. Meanwhile, rural and suburban towns across the state face an existential threat from a property tax cut that will appear on the November ballot. And new records reveal how a billionaire-led insurance broker wrote a law that could drive up property insurance prices for condo owners— and then puppeteered the plan through the Florida Legislature

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Stories discussed in today’s show:

‘Breathtaking assertion of power’: Appeals court slams door on Florida ‘Stop Woke’ law championed by DeSantis

Scott Maxwell: Courts confirm Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE’ law is un-American garbage

A lawyer for Ron DeSantis revealed the real motive behind one of Florida’s most controversial laws

Next in Florida's war on 'woke': Becoming its own higher ed watchdog

Florida leaders hid money for controversial higher education project

City-by-city estimates of property tax impacts from Amendment 3

What Florida’s tax rollback looks like through the eyes of one small town

An insurance company led by a billionaire megadonor wrote a law pushing Florida condo owners into higher-priced property insurance

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