Did political donations grease path to lucrative Florida legal bid?
By Sydney P. FreedburgSt. Petersburg Times
Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein was a Republican ATM.
Can Crist Survive a Right-Wing Uprising in Florida?
By Tim Padgett
Time Magazine
A new voter poll was released a couple of weeks ago that showed Florida Governor Charlie Crist dropping into a tie with former state House speaker Marco Rubio -- an underdog Crist had led by more than 20 points last summer -- in next year's Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate.
By Anthony Man
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Fueled by anger at politicians and distrust of the government, the rapidly growing tea party movement could upend the political establishment in the 2010 elections -- ultimately becoming a permanent, game-changing force in American politics.
Health Lobby Takes Fight to the States
By David D. Kirkpatrick
New York Times
Like about a dozen other states, Florida is debating a proposed amendment to its state constitution that would try to block, at least symbolically, much of the proposed federal health care overhaul on the grounds that it tramples individual liberty.
Facts sink new drilling technology
Editorial
Tampa Tribune
It is becoming increasingly evident that the shadowy group promoting oil drilling immediately off Florida's shores is playing fast and loose with the facts.
Tampa Tribune
A visit with the highest-paid government employees would take you from the University of South Florida, to the state Legislature in Tallahassee, to the Southwest Florida Water Management District in Brooksville.
Getting a Florida driver's license is about to get more complicated
By Steve Bousquet
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Do you know where your birth certificate is?
2009 in review: Indicted speaker tops news
By Paul Flemming
Pensacola News Journal
The year began with a special session in the first days of January to deal with state budgets swimming in red ink and ended with a December special session to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on rail projects.
Strange? Odd? Weird? Bizarre? That's Florida!
By Brendan Farrington
The Associated Press
You know you're living in a weird state when the governor promotes a pay-per-minute sex chat line.
Editorial
Gainesville Sun
Given Florida's embarrassing showing in the 2000 presidential election, the last thing this state needs is to become a captive market for a single voting machine vendor.
WUSF Public Radio Tampa
A group that wants to end gerrymandering says it has enough signatures to put the issue before Florida voters in November.
Miami Herald
The shooting death of a cross-dressing teenager in Fort Lauderdale; black swastikas spray-painted on a Parkland synagogue; anti-gay graffiti on Wilton Manors homes.
St. Petersburg Times
A Washington-based foundation has teamed up with a controversial local company to propose a radical change in the way Florida deals with the destruction of its sea grass beds.
New South Florida water rules dodge appeals, but face test in Tallahassee
By Andy Reid
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Opponents of South Florida's new year-round watering rules are taking their fight to the Legislature, opting for legislative muscle over courtroom battles.
EPA proposes new greenhouse gas regulations
By Joshua Lee Holton
WMNF Community Radio Tampa
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a rule change in the Clean Air Act, such that only the biggest polluters will be subject to regulations for greenhouse gas emissions.
EPA: UF will pay a $175,000 fine
By Thomas Stewart
Gainesville Sun
The University of Florida has agreed to pay a fine of $175,000 for alleged environmental violations that include illegally disposing of hundreds of gallons of a toxic chemical on campus over almost two decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday.
Top state court gives homeowners chance to fight foreclosure
By Aaron DeslatteOrlando Sentinel
Facing one of the worst foreclosure crises in the nation, Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince ordered judges statewide Monday to starting sending foreclosure cases to a new "managed mediation" program in which financially strapped homeowners can try to negotiate a way out of losing their homes.
New Florida law spurs rush to get mortgage broker licenses
By Kimberly Miller
Palm Beach Post
Florida's Office of Financial Regulation has received 4,600 mortgage broker licensing applications since July, more than double the amount requested for all of last fiscal year.
By Whitney Ray
Capitol News Service
Holiday sales rose 3.6 percent overall this year with online sales seeing the largest increase in traffic.
Pension fund reforms stall over politics.
Editorial
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
With more than $100 billion in investments, Florida has the nation's fourth-largest pension fund.
Northwest Florida Daily News
U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller will host town hall meetings next week to discuss health care.
Overtime served: Reforming Florida's violent incarceration mentality
EditorialDaytona Beach News-Journal
Like other law enforcement officials in the state, Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson is sowing undue fear and misinformation about legislative proposals that would reform the state's overly harsh and unsustainably costly prison system.
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