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Florida’s AIDS drug assistance program in jeopardy, James Patterson on early literacy and more
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- The Florida Roundup
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- Mar 20, 2026
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- 2971
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Summary
This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke with Florida Senate President Pro Tempore Jason Brodeur about the Senate’s stop-gap funding measure for the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program or ADAP (00:00). Then, KFF’s Lindsey Dawson joined us to talk about the troubles facing the federal ADAP program and how states are responding (17:16). Plus, best-selling author James Patterson joins us to talk about an effort to boast early literacy (21:12). And later, news from across the state including a letter from a group of Florida sheriffs urging a change in federal immigration policy (37:32), an update on a new state-produced intro to biology college textbook (39:52), and the story of a pair of traveling burrowing owls (46:20).