The abortion rights position has won on the ballot in 7 out of 7 states since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in mid-2022 — even in red-leaning ones such as Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and Ohio.
Florida
Week 17 staff predictions: Carolina Panthers at Jacksonville Jaguars
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Most of FSU’s top stars from the 2023 season will not play during Saturday’s Orange Bowl vs. Georgia; the Jaguars need a win to stay atop the AFC South.
Are the Carolina Panthers just what the doctor ordered for the floundering Jacksonville Jaguars?
The NFL’s worst team by record (2-13) comes to Jacksonville’s EverBank Stadium with the Jaguars needing a win to stop a four-game skid and to remain in control of the AFC South.
Something has to give in this game. The Jaguars have struggled at home (3-5) while the Panthers have not won on the road this season (0-8).
A loss could potentially stop the Jaguars from being able to win the AFC South. That would depend on what Houston and Indianapolis do this weekend, as well.
Also, after having a grip on the lead all season, Gene Frenette has dropped the past three, allowing Demetrius Harvey, Juston Lewis and Clayton Freeman to catch him in the standings. Everyone else is just one game back.
Let’s see what our experts think about this game:
DEMETRIUS HARVEY
Jaguars beat writer
Jaguars 24, Panthers 10
The Jaguars are on a four-game losing streak and are in must-win mode. Usually, they respond to something like that. The Panthers are the worst team in the league even with a solid performance against the Packers last week. Jags get it done, finally.
Season: 9-6
MIKE DiROCCO
ESPN
Jaguars 27, Panthers 14
At some point, the Jaguars players have to say: “Enough.” That’s what happened this week.
Season: 8-7
GENE FRENETTE
Times-Union Sports columnist
Jaguars 20, Panthers 16
Like the Jaguars, I’ve let the competition get back into the prediction race, but that stops immediately. Whether it’s Trevor Lawrence or backup quarterback C.J. Beathard making his first Jaguars’ start, they can’t suffer what would be the most embarrassing loss in team history by falling to the NFL’s worst team with an AFC South title at stake. The defense has an ideal matchup going against rookie QB Bryce Young (53 sacks) and a Panthers’ offense averaging just 15.7 points per game. Take advantage of it.
Season: 9-6
GARRY SMITS
Times-Union Sports reporter
Jaguars 16, Panthers 13
It may be ugly. But I refuse to believe the Jags can lose to the worst team in the NFL that also has gone 0-8 on the road this season.
Season: 8-7
JUSTON LEWIS
Times-Union Sports reporter
Panthers 17, Jaguars 13
I thought this might be the week the train got back on the tracks. But I have my doubts after Trevor Lawrence missed two days of practice with a shoulder injury on his throwing arm.
Season: 9-6
CLAYTON FREEMAN
Times-Union Sports reporter
Jaguars 16, Panthers 14
The Jaguars couldn’t really lose at home to 2-13 Carolina, could they? The way their last month has gone, it could happen. A key matchup to watch: the Jags’ pass rush against a sack-prone and injury-weakened Carolina O-line. If they allow Bryce Young time to steer the Panther offense as he did last week against Green Bay, Jacksonville may be ringing out 2023 with a disaster against a roster with former Jags including DJ Chark and CJ Henderson.
Season: 9-6
TIM WALTERS
Times-Union Sports Editor
Jaguars 31, Panthers 16
The Panthers are coming off their best offensive output of the season last week in a 33-30 loss to the Packers. The week before, they got their second win of the season by beating Atlanta 9-7 (yuck!). They average just 16 points a game. This is a game the Jaguars MUST win, and I think they do, regardless of an injured Trevor Lawrence or a healthy CJ Beathard.
8-7
Florida
Analysis | Arizona and Florida could send a big message on abortion rights
The polling, from CBS News and YouGov, shows striking margins in Arizona and Florida for enshrining abortion rights into those states’ constitutions. That position leads 65 percent to 21 percent in Arizona and 60 percent to 20 percent in Florida. Previous polling in Florida also showed voters favoring the abortion rights amendment by wide margins — by 21 points in one poll and by 30 points in another.
Florida’s measure will be on the ballot; Arizona’s is still a work in progress, but organizers say they have more than enough signatures to get it there. Other states will feature such measures, but Arizona and Florida are the big ones.
The newest polling shows not only that voters overwhelmingly favor the amendments, but even Republicans lean in favor of them — 43-38 in Arizona and 43-34 in Florida.
That 60 percent overall number in Florida is notable because that’s the threshold for passage in the state — a higher bar than the one for most states.
It’s also notable because it suggests the potential for an even more resounding affirmation of abortion rights.
While abortion rights positions have won plenty of votes from Republican-leaning voters, they have done so to varying degrees. A good way to look at this is how they have performed relative to the 2020 presidential vote.
The best relative performance for an abortion rights amendment thus far? The most recent one. In Ohio last year, it over-performed Biden’s 2020 vote share by 11.6 points. Biden got 45 percent in 2020, but the abortion rights amendment got 57 percent.
The average overperformance across the four states: eight points.
The new Arizona and Florida polls already show support for the amendments outpacing Biden’s 2020 share in those states by 16 points and 12 points, respectively — even with a fair number of undecided voters.
There have been states where the abortion rights position over-performed Biden by more than it did in the four states above: Kansas, Kentucky and Montana. But importantly, those states weren’t voting directly on enshrining abortion rights.
Montana’s measure was narrowly about infants born after failed abortions. Kansas’s and Kentucky’s measures asked voters to affirmatively state that the state constitution didn’t protect abortion rights. In those last two states, the measures over-performed Biden by 17 and 16 points, respectively — the biggest overperformances to date.
And that could be instructive.
These were situations in which voters were effectively being asked not to add a right, but to foreclose one.
Indeed, what could set Arizona and Florida apart from the four states that have previously voted to enshrine abortion rights is how much those rights have been curtailed in those states.
The Florida Supreme Court last month greenlit the state’s six-week abortion ban, which even former president Donald Trump has sought to distance himself from. Then the Arizona Supreme Court last month revived a harsh 1864 law that banned nearly all abortions — even in the cases of rape and incest — and made providing one punishable by two to five years in prison. (This set off a panic in GOP circles which eventually led to the law’s repeal. A 15-week ban remains in place.)
This has set up a situation in which voters could effectively view the abortion rights amendments as referendums on the harsh GOP-backed laws and an opportunity to register their discontent. The same YouGov poll, for instance, shows 72 percent of Arizona voters approve of overturning the 1864 law.
Or, at the very least, the stakes of allowing their representatives to restrict abortion rights could be more real to them than to voters in California, Michigan, Vermont and Ohio, where similar laws weren’t in play.
It’s that dynamic that makes these potentially resounding votes in Florida and Arizona particularly important for the future of abortion rights in America.
Florida
Florida ranks in list’s top 10 states for most adults living with their parents. Here’s why
Report finds Americans are optimistic about buying a home in 2024
After years of feeling priced out of the market, potential homebuyers are feeling optimistic again, according to a new report.
Scripps News
In 2020, the Pew Research Center conducted a study that found more than 50% of young adults in the U.S. were living with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression.
And that trend hasn’t slowed down, according to a newer study.
Ahead of the mid-May Mother’s Day rush, trucking industry website Truckinfo.com analyzed data from the US Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Federal Reserve to find how many young adults would only have to step out of their bedroom to wish their mother a happy Mother’s Day.
The study revealed that the number of young adults who live with their parents has continued to increase. And Florida ranked in the top 10 states where the most young adults are still living at home.
Here’s where Florida ranked on this list and why.
What percentage of 25-34 year-olds live with parents?
“Both men and women between the ages of 25 and 34 are twice as likely to live with their parents than in 1967,” the study said.
“While there was a steady increase until the early 2010s, the figure has grown significantly in recent years.”
According to the study, around 32.1% of adults between the ages of 25 and 34 live at home with their parents. Florida’s state average is a little higher, at 34.8%, ranking the Sunshine State tenth in Truckinginfo.com’s list of states where the most young adults still live with their parents.
Which state has the largest percentage of adults still living with their parents?
New Jersey emerged as the state with the largest percentage of young adults living at home. California placed in second and Connecticut in third. Florida ranked at the bottom, in 10th place.
“Compared to the national average, adult children in coastal cities and the south are much more likely to live with their parents,” the study said.
“Conversely, states in the Midwest and Mountain West are more likely to live with their spouses than the rest of the country”
Here are the rankings, with the percentage of adults between 25 and 34 living with their parents in each state:
- New Jersey, 43.3%
- California, 38.6%
- Connecticut, 38.6%
- New Hampshire, 37.4%
- New York, 37.0%
- Delaware, 36.9%
- Maryland, 36.1%
- Rhode Island, 35.9%
- Mississippi, 35.8%
- Florida, 34.8%
The study also found that high housing costs have the biggest influence on why so many young adults are living at home for longer.
“Even for men gainfully employed, many struggle to afford a home. Since 1984, the home-price-to-income ratio in the U.S. has nearly doubled,” the study said. “Meaning homes are twice as expensive today than in 1984.”
Florida
Florida man drunkenly steals school bus, drives 4 hours to Miami: police
A Florida man allegedly stole a school bus while drunk and drove to Miami in a wild Saturday night outing, police said.
Land O’ Lakes resident Daniel Saez, 32, was charged with grand theft auto on Sunday, according to FOX 13 Tampa Bay.
The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) told the outlet that the suspect stole the bus, which belonged to Hillsborough County Public Schools, near Tampa on Saturday night.
Saez then drove the vehicle to Miami, which is roughly 280 miles from Tampa. It’s about a four-hour drive.
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The suspect was stopped in Sarasota, the FHP said. He told authorities that he was on his way back to Tampa from Miami to return the stolen bus.
Sarasota is approximately 60 miles south of Tampa.
The suspect allegedly admitted to stealing the bus and was reportedly both drunk and high when the crime took place.
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After being arrested, Saez was placed in a county jail.
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