Tag: Sarasota

[Premiering Now] Police Forcibly Remove Doctor From Hospital After He Endorsed Ivermectin: Full Footage | Facts Matter

In Florida, medical freedom activists are putting more and more pressure on a certain hospital system located in the city of Sarasota. This particular hospital put out an official report that touted how awesome their response to COVID-19 was. However, these medical freedom activists, which include people who lost family members to COVID-19 at this…


Families of Patients Lost To COVID-19 Pressuring Florida Hospital, State Lawmakers for Answers

SARASOTA, Fla.—Medical freedom activists are vowing to continue pressuring a Sarasota hospital for answers about the treatment of patients who died during care there for COVID-19. On March 8, they plan to gather in Tallahassee for what they’re calling Protect Medical Freedom Day in support of two proposed bills making their way through the state…


In Sarasota, a Sense of Normalcy

It felt normal. That’s how I keep describing my recent visit to Sarasota. The city and eponymous county on the Gulf of Mexico coast in southwest Florida has long been a popular destination for snowbirds and sunseekers from my home state of Michigan. That popularity is partly because of its location along Interstate 75—making it…


Group Offers School Board Activist Training Nationwide

SARASOTA, Fla.—People from all stages of life—with and without children in public schools—are filling workshops across the country designed to prepare them to challenge local school boards on issues and help school board candidates they support get elected. In January, it was a mostly conservative crowd, hopeful they’d learn how to right a lop-sided, left-leaning…


First Republican-Leaning County in Florida Imposes School Mask Mandate Defying DeSantis

Sarasota became the first Republican-leaning county in Florida to impose a school mask mandate in violation of a ban on such measures adopted by the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Hours prior to the vote in Sarasota, Florida’s education commissioner moved forward with punitive measures against two Democratic-leaning counties who likewise ran afoul of…