FEATURED STORIES
By Adam C. Smith
Among the many indignities Gov. Charlie Crist has faced over the last several rocky months, this one hit home.
By Steve Bousquet
Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum had the most successful money-raising quarter among candidates for state office, but his Democratic opponent, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, had a more successful year overall.
Editorial
Offshore drilling may not be coming to Florida's Gulf Coast, thanks, it appears, to Senate President Jeff Atwater.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Steve Bousquet
Gov. Charlie Crist and leading legislators on Monday called for a revival of the annual sales tax holiday for back-to school items such as backpacks and pencils.
By Mary Ellen Klas
In the midst of two votes over the largest rate cases in state history, the lawyer who represents consumers is on the hot seat.
By Matt Dixon
When Sen. Don Gaetz and Rep. Marti Coley agreed to co-author a bill clarifying how Sunshine Laws apply to economic development groups that receive taxpayer money, they pledged to get the input from several outsiders.
By Tom McLaughlin
U.S. Sen. George LeMieux spoke Monday against delaying production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Editorial
As an experienced lawmaker, Sen. John Thrasher, R-Orange Park, knows there are times when partisanship becomes a serious barrier to progress.
POLITICAL RACES
By Bill Cotterell
Former state Rep. Loranne Ausley, D-Tallahassee, edged closer Monday to switching from a Senate campaign to a race for chief financial officer.
By Janet Zink
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor won the 11th Congressional District office in 2006 with 70 percent of the vote, and did even better in the heavily Democratic territory in 2008.
By Janet Zink
Republican Paul Phillips, a lawyer who lives in Valrico, has filed to take on GOP incumbent Ronda Storms for the District 10 state Senate seat.
By Beth Reinhard
Joe Carollo, the pugnacious former Miami mayor who narrowly lost a reelection bid in 2001, is likely to launch a Florida Senate campaign next month.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Catherine Whittenburg
The resistance from sitting lawmakers, supporters of the plan say, is a misunderstanding at best or, at worst, a symptom of the inherent conflict-of-interest that lawmakers face when drawing political boundaries.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Jim Saunders
West Volusia homeowners and businesses will avoid a hefty increase in electric bills after regulators Monday scuttled a Progress Energy Florida proposal to raise base rates.
By Bruce Ritchie
The talks among Alabama, Florida and Georgia over water-sharing are confidential now under an order entered last week by a federal judge -- despite an objection from an environmental group involved in the litigation.
By Andy Reid
Lake Okeechobee water, relied on to back up South Florida supplies, will once again be siphoned off to protect west coast fishing grounds.
By Barbara Behrendt
The 20 whooping cranes that make up the Class of 2009 have finally made it to Florida.
Editorial
Nothing talks quite like money. This helps explain the optimism at the annual Everglades Coalition's 29th annual conference this past weekend in Palm Beach Gardens.
By Charles Pattison
The nation's biggest land-conservation program has another chance before the 2010 Legislature to renew itself and change course from the 2009 majority decision not to fund this very popular and successful effort.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Kevin Bouffard
The sting of cold weather fell on Florida citrus groves Monday morning, leaving frozen fruit in many areas of the state's citrus belt and possibly tree damage.
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
Heading into another difficult budget year, Gov. Charlie Crist and legislative leaders said Monday that they will support a back-to-school sales tax break this year, even though it could cost the state treasury as much as $44 million.
By Kevin Turner
The main obstacle for small businesses in Jacksonville is access to capital, several local business owners told Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink at a meeting Monday at the Beaver Street Enterprise Center.
EDUCATION
By John Kennedy
Once Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger were political look-alikes.
By Brandon Larrabee
Northeast Florida lawmakers are offering measures that would change the course mixture for students at public schools - and how those schools are graded - in the legislative session this spring.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Christine Stapleton
In December Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson & Johnson company, had its public relations firm email reporters, offering to set up interviews about the dire need for Florida's Medicaid program to "cover medications for people with mental illness, including treatment with long-acting therapy."
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Daniel Chang
More than $2 million in donations doled out by disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein have come back to haunt many of the South Florida charities and nonprofits that once counted on the largess of the alleged fraudster.
By Paula McMahon
When a local nonprofit group, Family Central, Inc., learned it would have to return a $25,000 donation from accused Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, charity officials feared they would not be able to make up for the loss.
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