{"id":118742,"date":"2026-01-15T03:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118742\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:35:06","slug":"senate-quickly-passes-rural-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118742\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate quickly passes \u2018Rural Renaissance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <a class=\"expand_image\" href=\"#\" aria-label=\"Expand Image\" data-uri=\"\/sites\/lakecityreporter.com\/files\/2026-01\/Corey%20Simon_6585.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Corey Simon_6585.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Sen. Corey Simon said the \u2018Rural Renaissance\u2019 bill that was passed by the Senate on Wednesday will provide things that are needed in rural communities, like transporation, health care and education improvements. (FILE)\" class=\"image-style-flexslider-full\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption is-sans-serif is-size-7\">Sen. Corey Simon said the \u2018Rural Renaissance\u2019 bill that was passed by the Senate on Wednesday will provide things that are needed in rural communities, like transporation, health care and education improvements. (FILE)<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Corey Simon said the \u2018Rural Renaissance\u2019 bill that was passed by the Senate on Wednesday will provide things that are needed in rural communities, like transporation, health care and education improvements. (FILE)<\/p>\n<p>TALLAHASSEE \u2014 The Florida Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved a \u201crural renaissance\u201d plan that is a priority of Senate President Ben Albritton, a Hardee County citrus grower, but its fate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Premium Content is available to subscribers only. Please login\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakecityreporter.com\/etype-login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to access\u00a0content or go\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publisher.etype.services\/Lake-City-Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to purchase a subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. Corey Simon said the \u2018Rural Renaissance\u2019 bill that was passed by the Senate on Wednesday will provide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-118742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}