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By Beth Reinhard
Related AP story: Prayers for 'new life' as Haitians in Fla. mourn
More celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. with service
Florida Times-Union
Fla. business leaders meet with lawmakers
Tallahassee Democrat
Oil Drilling Debate Has Begun Again
News Service of Florida
Florida's Mini-Madoff: Scott Rothstein's Fall Could Ensnare Politicians Too
Time Magazine
As governor, McCollum would lead Florida into Dark Ages
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
FLORIDA POLITICS
Adam C. Smith
One of the constant political undercurrents in Florida is the tension between Jeb Bush and his allies, and Charlie Crist and his.
By Aaron Deslatte
Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Scott Arceneaux sent out a memo last week bragging of a "banner year" for registering new voters and raising cash, adding that the party rings in the 2010 election year with a sizable cash advantage over Republicans.
By Steve Bousquet
The term "government ethics" is seen as an oxymoron, like "jumbo shrimp."
By Sally Kestin and Brittany Wallman
A high-ranking Broward sheriff's official under scrutiny for his association with Scott Rothstein has a friend and patron in high places: Gov. Charlie Crist.
By Laura Figueroa
These grannies aren't here for the sun and shuffleboard.
POLITICAL RACES
By Beth Reinhard
Related: US Rep. Meek arrives in Haiti to help with relief
Pundits agree: Senator likely to be Crist or Rubio, not Meek
St. Petersburg Times
With Republicans Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio dominating news coverage about Florida's U.S. Senate race, Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek would like you to know he's running, too.
By Michael C. Bender
Florida Democrats signaled a new strategy in the U.S. Senate campaign today by targeting Republican Marco Rubio, once a long-shot U.S. Senate candidate, with their second press release in as many days.
By Catherine Whittenburg
After going months without a competitive candidate for chief financial officer, Florida Democrats have recruited a former legislator to complete their slate of statewide candidates for 2010.
By Bill Rufty
Alan Grayson, the Orlando congressman whose outspoken remarks have made him a prime target of national conservative talk shows, came to Lakeland on Saturday night and had local Democrats cheering.
By Matt Dixon
Bay County, meet Senate President Jeff Atwater. Senate President Jeff Atwater, meet Bay County.
By Paul Flemming
The campaign to replace Durell Peaden in the Florida Senate may be a TKO more than eight months before the primary.
By Matt Dixon
The holiday season was good to the frontrunners in area political campaigns.
Editorial
Despite losses in county GOP straw polls concerning his Senate run -- most recently in his own Pinellas County -- Crist still has eight months to make a case for himself that he deserves Republicans' vote in the primary election.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Deirdre MacNab
Do you know who represents you in Congress? Do you know the name of your state senator or representative?
By Caren Burmeister
A longtime effort to decriminalize marijuana possession in Jacksonville Beach has expanded to Atlantic Beach, as well as to Orlando and Tallahassee.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE, AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Kyle Teal
A moment of silence for the victims of last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti interrupted the celebratory cheer of Saturday's Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in South Miami-Dade.
By Kyle Munzenrieder
Tim Tebow may never have another chance to be associated with a Super Bowl, but why is he recording an ad for Focus on the Family?
Editorial
Last year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the nation's celebration was inevitably linked to the election of Barack Obama, who would be sworn in as the nation's president the next day.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By John Frank
In a move cheered by environmental groups, the federal government Friday proposed stringent limits on "nutrient" pollution allowed to foul Florida's waterways.
David DeCamp
Despite 19 years notice, hundreds of gas stations, governments and businesses failed to upgrade risky fuel storage tanks before a New Year's deadline.
By Cammy Clark
On 95 acres of ocean floor near the Seven Mile Bridge, a seagrass meadow damaged by boaters is Exhibit A in an environmental group's controversial quest to start a new marine mitigation fund for Florida.
By Jim Ash and Jim Waymer
When he reaches the register, Drew Martin always has to explain
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 Brent Kallestad
Three renowned economists agree Florida's boom days are over and that the state's recovery from the recession is likely to take awhile.
By Bill Rufty
Bright-orange pulp from a newly cut orange smelled fresh and citrusy, but the juice cells nearest the rind looked dry and a little discolored.
By Steve Bousquet
The search will soon be under way in Florida for every Hispanic, farmworker, college student and members of other historically hard-to-count groups in a marketing blitz aimed at improving the 2010 Census count.
By Marcia Dunn
Here's a recession bargain: the space shuttle. NASA has slashed the price of these 1970s era spaceships from $42 million to $28.8 million apiece.
Editorial
Florida is looking at a $2 billion revenue deficit. But another year of draconian budget cuts will be devastating to state universities, public schools, criminal justice, health care and other vital public services.
EDUCATION
By Kathleen Haughney
Florida's application for millions of dollars in federal education money is on its way to Washington D.C. after obtaining the signature of Gov. Charlie Crist Friday, four days ahead of the federal deadline.
By Jeffrey S. Solochek
During his first few years in office, state Rep. Will Weatherford regularly demurred on Florida education issues.
By Kate Santich
Forty years after the late Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles walked the length of the state in his underdog bid for the U.S. Senate, his son and namesake is marching on his own mission.
By Luis Zaragoza
When University of Central Florida President John Hitt said no thanks to a pay raise last year because of the bad economy, he wasn't alone.
By Jane Glover
Friday morning's newspaper brought us the news that the Florida Council of 100, the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Gov. Charlie Christ and former Gov. Jeb Bush are proposing major changes to the educational system in our state.
Editorial
Perhaps with business organizations behind it, a significant increase in the state's investment in education from kindergarten through college could gain some traction in the Florida Legislature.
Health care legislation stirs again in Tallahassee
Gainesville Sun
As health reform nears, time to get details right
St. Petersburg Times
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Pat Gillespie
In the not-too-distant future, a person may be able to file a lawsuit from the comfort of their own computer.
The Associated Press
Two Florida Supreme Court committees have urged justices to ban jurors from tweeting, texting, e-mailing and using the Internet to communicate about or do research on their cases.
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