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LECANTO — When Florida lawmakers signed off this year on a bill creating more than 300 miles of toll roads, they did so with scant evidence the project was needed. More than five months later, after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law and the project has been vetted in two rounds of public hearings, local officials are growing frustrated by the persistent lack of details about what would be the largest expansion of Florida’s toll system in decades. “We’re beating a dead horse right now before it’s even born,” said Dixie County Commissioner Mark Hatch, who sits on a...

MADISON, Wisconsin — Before prevailing wage reform supporters celebrated a big win in the state Senate on Tuesday, the prevailing war of words between a state lawmaker and a key lobbyist heated up. In a letter obtained by Wisconsin Watchdog, former Republican Assembly speaker and prevailing wage defender John Gard informs state Rep. Bob Gannon, R-Slinger, he wants to “set the record straight” about an accusatory email Gannon sent members of the media and others last week. A story in Right Wisconsin suggests Gard had been given “privileged access” to Republican members of the Legislature before the Assembly Republican caucus....