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Factions grapple for reins of GOP in Florida
By Gary Fineout
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
A year before one of the most wide-open elections in state history, Florida's Republican Party has splintered over everything from philosophy to questions over how the party is being run.
Suddenly, skies are cloudy for Charlie Crist
By Beth Reinhard
Miami Herald
The press release from the Florida Democratic Party called Thursday ``Charlie Crist's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.''
Rubio record diverges from campaign rhetoric
By Adam C. Smith and Alex Leary
St. Petersburg Times
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is emerging as the champion of activists fed up with Republicans who don't stay true to conservative principles.
Rothstein saga puts Capitol on edge
By Dara Kam
Palm Beach Post
Related op-ed: Crist bundles his troubles
It wasn't just the nippy fall breeze that gave capital insiders the shivers last week.
House approves health care overhaul on 220-215 vote
McClatchy Newspapers
St. Petersburg Times
The House on Saturday passed, by a 220-215 vote, historic health care overhaul legislation that would require virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance and create a government-run health insurance plan to help them do so.
EDITORIAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
By Jeff Parker
Florida Today
FLORIDA POLITICS
Lawyer Scott Rothstein's quick rise to life of a high roller ends even faster
By Jay Weaver, Amy Sherman and Marc Caputo
St. Petersburg Times
If there was one thing Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein craved, it was attention.
Pressing for anticorruption measures, senator cites investigation into state investments
By Shannon Colavecchio
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
State Sen. Dan Gelber, vying to be Florida's next attorney general, says the proposed anticorruption package he unveiled earlier this week is more vital than ever in light of confirmation this week that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating possible fraud by the board that oversees the state pension fund.
Capital Ideas: Twitter fraud gives conservative ammo in duel with GOP moderates
By Paul Flemming
Ft. Myers News-Press
Jason Steele, chairman of the Brevard County Republican Executive Committee, has been at odds all year with the Republican Party of Florida.
Dockery: No Reason for Dec. Session
By Shelley Rossetter
Lakeland Ledger
There's no reason to hold a special session to re-visit plans for a commuter rail system in Central Florida, Sen. Paula Dockery said Friday in Lakeland.
First Coast lawmakers warn federal government about states' rights
By Brandon Larrabee
Florida Times-Union
Northeast Florida lawmakers, alarmed at the increase in the size and power of the federal government, have joined a movement aimed at asserting states' rights based on the 10th Amendment.
2010 RACES
New York GOP rift may be Fla. omen
By William March
Tampa Tribune
Republicans say it's not a problem that they lost a New York special congressional election last week that was widely compared to Florida's U.S. Senate race.
The best politicians money can buy
By Carl Hiaasen
Miami Herald
Senate candidate Marco Rubio, once a distant underdog to a popular governor with a huge war chest, suddenly finds himself contemplating something he didn't have two months ago: A chance.
Rubio's immigration stance faces scrutiny
By Beth Reinhard
Miami Herald
As an underdog U.S. Senate candidate courting the GOP's conservative wing, Marco Rubio takes a hard-line position against illegal immigration: no amnesty.
Crist seeks distance from Obama
By Lloyd Dunkelberger and Gary Fineout
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Facing a challenge from the conservative wing of his party, Gov. Charlie Crist continued his retreat this week from his past associations with President Barack Obama.
Kendrick Meek is moving to the center
By Alex Isenstadt
Politico
The Meek family name has been synonymous with liberal politics for more than three decades, but you'd hardly know it from Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek's campaign for Florida's open Senate seat.
Elephants stampede RINOs
By Daniel Ruth
St. Petersburg Times
This was supposed to be a cakewalk for a hitherto popular governor.
Weird statements show Gov. Charlie Crist is suffering a case of Marco-itis
By Howard Troxler
St. Petersburg Times
Just to be clear, Charlie Crist did not endorse the stimulus, okay?
McCollum and Crist are both Republicans, and that's about where similarities stop
By Steve Bousquet
St. Petersburg Times
Bill McCollum is the anti-Crist. As in Charlie Crist.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
A drill, a spill, a tragedy
By Waldo Proffitt
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Earlier this week the Herald-Tribune published a letter from reader Rob West of Osprey who wrote, "If state-of-the-art leaking oil rigs burning off the coast of Australia do not become screaming headlines all over Florida, I just plain give up."
Everglades group closes office
By Curtis Morgan
Miami Herald
A landmark environmental group founded by Everglades icon Marjory Stoneman Douglas is closing its Miami office, citing declining membership and donations.
Florida (gone?) Forever
Editorial
Miami Herald
Look out, Florida lawmakers, four former governors are conducting a full-court press to convince you to resume funding the state's farsighted land-conservation program, Florida Forever.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
Stearns scoops up failed Florida banks
By John Hielscher
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
It took nearly 40 years, but Norm Skalicky finally got his Sarasota bank.
Firms critique state on reducing red tape
By Dave Hodges
Tallahassee Democrat
A panel of 22 company owners from around Florida offered their thoughts Thursday on the state's efforts to help its 1.9 million small businesses achieve success and boost Florida's economy.
Debt collection complaints on the rise
By Jim Stratton
Orlando Sentinel
The message was straight out of The Sopranos. Left on the machine of a Jacksonville man named Jeff Gordon, it was personal, menacing and delivered with an understated certainty.
EDUCATION
GED now not equal to regular diploma
By Patricia Mazzei
Miami Herald
Until this past summer, Florida high school seniors who did not meet their graduation requirements were still able to graduate with a regular diploma if they passed the GED before the end of the school year.
Colleges' leader juggles demands
By Bill Kaczor
The Associated Press
When former Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan became the state university system's chancellor three months ago, he faced an imposing list of financial and political problems.
Graduation rates must be improved
Editorial
Tallahassee Democrat
Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union did what may have been inevitable given Florida's poor national standing in terms of high-school graduation rates.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
Obama Presses Senate to Act Quickly on Its Health Bill
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
New York Times
Related: For Opponents of Abortion, a Victory in Health Care Vote
The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up pressure on the Senate for quick action, with President Obama appearing Sunday in the Rose Garden to call on senators to "take up the baton and bring this effort to the finish line."
Boyd in minority as health bill passes
By Bill Cotterell
Tallahassee Democrat
U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd, tugged for months by his national party leaders and conservative forces in his Big Bend district, decided Saturday to vote against the national health-care plan.
Kosmas draws protest for opposing health bill
By Anne Geggis
Daytona Beach News-Journal
They carried signs that said, "Kosmas is a traitor," and "We got rid of Feeney for this?"
Nursing students, schools face hurdles
By Mark Harper
Daytona Beach News-Journal
To single moms like Sharon Hesher and Chaundra Carroll, a nursing degree represents a certain type of American dream: A steady, respectable income in the name of doing good.
Chinese drywall no danger to health, experts say
By Mary Wozniak
Ft. Myers News-Press
Two critical answers to myriad questions surrounding the corrosive causes and effects of defective Chinese drywall were provided by experts at a two-day Tampa symposium that ended Friday.
Rip out Chinese drywall and start over, scientist advises
By Paul Owers
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Ripping out tainted Chinese drywall and rebuilding homes from the studs out -- as a few South Florida contractors are doing -- appears to be an effective repair, a scientist said Friday.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
High court reviews life term for youths
New York Times
Tampa Tribune
There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed.
Bank ordered to turn over documents for Rothstein case in Broward County
By Amy Sherman and Jay Weaver
Miami Herald
A bank central to the federal fraud investigation into Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein was ordered by a Broward judge Friday to turn over records to the receiver for Rothstein's embattled law firm.
Eager to be judge, Garner in limbo
By David Saez
Tallahassee Democrat
Kathy Garner's future as a Gadsden County judge and her potentially historic appointment are in limbo.
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