FEATURED STORIES
By Shannon Colavecchio and Jeffrey S. Solochek
Having already spent $16 billion to reduce class sizes -- and facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit -- leading Republicans including Gov. Charlie Crist want voters to reconsider their 2002 vote in favor of smaller classes.
By Brandon Larrabee
Despite an overall budget gap that could reach $3 billion, Gov. Charlie Crist unveiled a record $22.7 billion education budget Monday that would increase per-student state spending.
By William March
Gov. Charlie Crist expressed optimism today about the state budget and the state economy, and said he'll propose a corporate tax cut, targeted at small businesses, to help create jobs.
By Jim Ash
Speaker Marco Rubio, the conservative Republican from West Miami who is challenging Gov. Charlie Crist for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, has taken his first lead, according to the latest poll.
By Alex Leary
President Barack Obama will hold a town hall meeting Thursday afternoon at the University of Tampa.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Mary Ellen Klas
Ellyn Bogdanoff has given up. Once one of the most ardent opponents of gambling expansion in the Florida House, the Fort Lauderdale legislator is now ready to open the doors to full-fledged casinos because, she says, Florida ``is losing the battle'' to the Seminole Tribe.
By Ron Hurtibise
Republicans and independents are souring on President Barack Obama in large numbers, but they aren't the only ones expressing concerns.
POLITICAL RACES
By Kathy Steele
Democratic and Republican voters today will choose candidates to represent Florida House District 58, a diverse swath of the city's midsection stretching from Town 'N Country to Old Seminole Heights.
By Brent Kallestad
Former Florida legislator Marco Rubio has closed the gap in the race for the state's Republican U.S. Senate nomination and is in a virtual dead heat with Gov. Charlie Crist, according to a poll released Tuesday.
By Louis Cooper
If Marco Rubio had been performing a rock concert in Pensacola on Monday, he might have changed Tom Jones' lyric to, "It's not unusual to be loved by everyone."
By Sean Kinane
The question of who will represent the GOP in the race Florida's open US Senate Seat late this November signifies, to many, a rift among republicans both in the Sunshine State and nationwide.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Mike Vasilinda
Florida lawmakers have already spent almost 3 hundred thousand dollars on the effort to redraw the state's legislative and congressional districts, and the redrawing won't take place for another two years.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
CBS urged to scrap Super Bowl ad with Tebow, mom
By David Crary
The Associated Press
A national coalition of women's groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, which critics say is likely to convey an anti-abortion message.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Picketed by Members
By Robbie Brown
Several dozen members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights group founded by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., gathered here from across the South on Monday to demand the resignations of two board members accused of financial and ethical violations.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Joshua Lee Holton
Limestone rock mining in Florida provides critical components for housing and highway construction. But environmentalists have some concrete concerns as rock mining impacts the Florida Aquifers and Everglades restoration.
By Bruce Ritchie
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday established a new hourly nitrogen dioxide standard and proposed additional monitoring requirements for the pollutant.
By Mary Ellen Klas
The Florida Public Service Commission on Monday named Tim Devlin, 58, to be its new executive director and steer the agency into an era of reform.
Editorial
As 2010 moves along, Floridians can expect the campaigns for state offices to begin heating up.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Aaron Deslatte
Nearly three months after pledging to better regulate rogue debt-collectors, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum are still finger-pointing over who should take on the task.
By Jim Turner
Florida Senate President designate Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, says if Congress isn't going to call out banks out for allegedly reducing home equity lines of credit to homeowners simply to improve their bottom line, then the state should.
By Marc R. Masferrer
An unemployed person has enough to worry about -- paying the bills, looking for work, wondering if they will have a roof over their heads.
Editorial
The Legislature has at least one good idea for dealing with the home foreclosure crisis that has sapped the state's economy, overwhelmed the courts and devastated families.
Editorial
Wall Street, in characteristic fashion, is arguing that President Barack Obama's banking reform plans are populist exercises that would not have prevented the financial crisis of 2008.
Editorial
Atwater, a Republican banker from North Palm Beach, surely knows better.
EDUCATION
By Ron Matus
Despite a still-rocky economy, Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday he'll push for an increase in Florida's education budget.
State Kicks Off Week-Long Reading Initiative (includes audio)
WFSU Public Radio Tallahassee
Bad economy may be fueling Lake County homeschooling trend
Orlando Sentinel
'Quality Counts' rating doesn't tell all
Gainesville Sun
Obama proposes easing student loan terms
Tallahassee Democrat
Move away from FCAT to improve schools
Tampa Tribune
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Beth Reinhard and Cammy Clark
Gov. Charlie Crist on Monday paved the way for nurses from outside Florida to fill in for colleagues in Miami who want to go to Haiti in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake.
By Diane Chun
The University of Florida is home to a new research facility, prepared to function as an early warning system for emerging diseases and linking investigators around the world.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Howard Troxler
After the big U.S. Supreme Court ruling the other day, there were a lot of warnings that American elections are going to be taken over by (gasp!) corporations.
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