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Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Florida’s legislature are taking aim at mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent offenders. Ryan Dailey reports bills dealing with the rigid sentencing guidelines are advancing, and still being filed ahead of the 2020 session. Are college and university campuses open markets for ideas or incubators of narrow thought? Some Republican lawmakers want to know what’s really happening in the state’s public higher education classrooms by asking students and professors to take an anonymous survey. But Democrats, and even some of those professors argue that’s a violation of free speech and are suspicious of the motives behind the plan. Lynn Hatter has more. Florida lawmakers seem to agree— something needs to be done about the state’s Constitution Revision Commission. But they’re not on the same page yet about what should happen. Regan McCarty has more. For years, Florida’s Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners - or ARNP’s - have tried to |