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Along the Coast: Home rule faces biggest threat yet

Posted by The Coastal Star on December 31, 2025 at 13:53

By John Pacenti

Tallahassee’s drip, drip, drip erosion of home rule is about to become a tsunami as Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican supermajority’s war on municipalities is now aimed at draining their lifeblood: property taxes.

If the most extre

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