PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By David DeCamp
Excerpt: A St. Petersburg-based progressive group is now trying to "light a fire" under cautious county commissioners. Progress Florida, led by board member Darden Rice, has launched a petition drive asking the commission to begin the service instead of continuing to delay it over questions.
FEATURED STORIES
By Steve Bousquet and Marc Caputo
Related: Crist's budget saves care programs for elderly
By Marc Caputo
Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times Tallahassee Bureau
Related: South Florida hospitals deny they refused care to Haitians
With Florida hospitals filling up as Haitian earthquake victims poured into the state, Gov. Charlie Crist had a simple plan: Ask the federal government for a disaster-relief strategy, secure more money for Florida and consider sending patients to other states.
By Sam Stein
President Obama traveled to a House Republican retreat in Baltimore on Friday and delivered a performance that was at once defiant, substantive and engaging.
By William E. Gibson
South Florida's U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings was only partly satisfied when President Barack Obama last week called for an end to restrictions on gays in the military.
Editorial
Before the Florida Legislature spent a quarter-million in taxpayer dollars on the 2012 redistricting effort, it should have known the rules of the game.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Josh Hafenbrack
In his final budget as governor, Charlie Crist on Friday unveiled an ambitious, $69.2 billion plan that hinges on unconfirmed revenue sources to return Florida to the days of surplus spending -- just as legislative leaders are warning of painful cuts and state worker layoffs.
By Bill Rufty
On the eve of the most important legislative elections in 10 years it is pretty well agreed that Democrats will not win a majority of seats in the Florida House.
By Aaron Sharockman
Some of Florida's public officials have been bad boys and girls, Gov. Charlie Crist says.
By Beth Reinhard
When Jeb Bush left office four years ago, his public appearances were as scarce as bi-partisan man hugs.
By Gary Fineout
More than five months ago, well-known elections law attorney Mark Herron wrote a letter to the state Division of Elections requesting an official opinion from them.
By Adam C. Smith
There's been an awful lot of chatter and speculation in recent months about U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young finally retiring in 2010 after 40 years in Congress.
POLITICAL RACES
By Ron Hurtibise
The death knell for democracy? Or a vital protection for First Amendment rights?
By Steve Bousquet
Barring a big surprise, one of three people will be Florida's next governor: Bill McCollum, Paula Dockery or Alex Sink.
By Jim Stratton
Getting your arms around Florida's Tea Party movement is like trying to hug a jellyfish: There's no good place to grab on, and if there were, you'd probably get stung.
By Paul Flemming
Marco Rubio is different now than he was Tuesday.
By Anthony Man
Political donors large and small, in South Florida and beyond, are placing their bets on congressional candidate Ted Deutch.
By Brian Skoloff
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the proposed health care overhaul and federal spending are dominating the debate between the two Democrats and three Republicans running in Tuesday's primaries for the congressional seat of former U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, who resigned in January to lead a Middle East think tank.
By Mark K. Matthews and David Damron
After months of indecision, the owner of a traffic-signal company in Winter Park has given the green light to a run against U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the outspoken freshman Democrat from Orlando.
By Stephen Goldstein
November 2nd can be D-Day for Florida Democrats: The long-awaited day they take back the state.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
Ballot full of hot-button issues
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Amendment 4 and founding principles
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Sink's opposition surprises "Hometown Democracy"
FloridaEnvironments.com
By Waldo Proffitt
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
End the gerrymandering for good
Miami Herald
The people should decide redistricting rules
Bradenton Herald
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE, AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Mike Bianchi
Two games into Tim Tebow's tenure as a starting quarterback in college, I predicted he would win Heisman Trophies plus national championships and go down as one of the greatest college football players ever.
By Jeff Brumley
To understand the value of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, serve aboard a submarine, said John Crouse, a retired submariner and Navy chief petty officer.
By Timothy J. Gibbons
Mayport Naval Station will become the homeport for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, according to the Quadrennial Defense Review to be submitted to Congress on Monday.
Editorial
Let's hope President Obama's latest rhetoric on "don't ask, don't tell" is more than just that -- rhetoric.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
Although they may differ on other issues, Florida's top three contenders for governor appear united in their skepticism over plans to bring oil drilling rigs close to the state's beaches.
By Curtis Morgan
Environmentalists spent eight years in court arguing that federal regulators should never have approved plans to blast and dredge limestone from 5,600 acres of Northwest Miami-Dade wetlands bordering a well field supplying drinking water to more than 1 million people.
By Bruce Ritchie
Gov. Charlie Crist today paired environmental spending with education as both being necessary investments for moving Florida forward in tough economic times.
By Tyler Treadway
A federal court judge ruled Friday that the Rivers Coalition did not prove its case seeking to force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop discharges from Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie Estuary.
By Andy Reid
Reservoirs planned to help restore the Everglades might need costly redesigns to avoid trapping and killing wildlife drawn to the vast pools of water.
The Associated Press
The net price of power is going down for Florida Power & Light customers.
Everglades dollars make jobs, aid nature
St. Petersburg Times
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Dick Hogan
A proposal by the Florida Bankers Association to allow foreclosures without a court hearing is arousing violent sentiments on both sides of the issue in Southwest Florida.
By Bill Cotterell
State employees would not face layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts or increases in their insurance premiums this year if state legislators adopt personnel provisions of the $69.2 billion state budget that Gov. Charlie Crist proposed on Friday.
By Mike Thomas
You may see this state as a fiscal wreck, a place where jobs and people are vanishing at a record clip.
By Keith Laing
A day after the national attention that came from President Barack Obama's visit to Florida to announce the state would receive $1.25 billion for high speed rail between Tampa and Orlando faded away, state transportation officials were left trying to figure out if the remainder of the $2.6 billion they requested for the project might be on the next train.
By Carl Hiaasen
Of all the ways Florida could blow through $1.25 billion in federal recovery funds, a bullet train is certainly the flashiest.
By Janet Zink and David DeCamp
The $1.25 billion in federal stimulus money that will help pay for a high-speed rail line from Tampa to Orlando has stirred visions of Disney visitors adding a trip to Pinellas beaches and Tampa residents riding the rail to Orlando, perhaps for a concert at the House of Blues.
By Jim Witters
State Rep. Alan Hayes blasted the governor's plan for expanded gambling at Seminole Tribe casinos Friday, saying the state needs a compact "that benefits Floridians, not Seminoles and Miccosukees."
By Charles Rabin and Michael Sallah
Facing a widening financial crisis, Miami leaders are already projecting a $45 million budget shortfall this year that could force the city to deplete its reserves and sell key assets to stay afloat.
By Jeff Harrington
Something unusual is happening at Dimmitt Chevrolet: It's hiring again.
Editorial
Since when is borrowing billions of dollars from the federal government a fiscally conservative strategy?
EDUCATION
By Leslie Williams Hale
Following the letter of the law may come down to a matter of verbage in the Florida Class Size Reduction Amendment.
By Jeff Solochek
In today's more-detailed budget rollout, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said in this statement that another expansion of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program (voucher program to many) is a priority for the upcoming legislative session.
By Michael Vasquez
For parents enrolling in Florida's prepaid College Plan this year, it's a case of choose your sticker shock.
By Nathan Crabbe
The Gator Nation might be everywhere, but its specialty license plate could begin disappearing from the state - along with the scholarship money it provides.
By Myriam Marquez
South Florida has the sun and surf, the dazzling nightlife, the cruise ships and national sports teams.
Editorial
As he campaigns for the Senate, Gov. Crist is boasting that, according to one education yardstick, Florida ranks eighth.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jane Musgrave
Already nearly 500 gravely injured Haitian earthquake victims have been brought to hospitals in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties for treatment, a top state official said today.
By John Dorschner
With healthcare problems continuing to mount in South Florida, regional leaders say the most they can hope for out of Washington is some kind of limited change.
By Carol Marbin Miller
Severely disabled, Sharett Smith, 17, needed one thing in order to leave behind her green-and-white plush doggie and her brown teddy bear and go out with her family to church or the park: diapers.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
Staff Report
Two Florida men, including a Tallahassee lobbyist, have been indicted on federal public-corruption charges, according to the FBI.
By Paula McMahon
Some of South Florida's public officials who were swept up in recent public corruption investigations hope the U.S. Supreme Court will make a favorite prosecution tool disappear when the justices rule on a controversial law aimed at dishonest politicians.
By Sarah Lundy
Judges across the country are wrestling with ways to cope with instant communication -- cell phones that can transmit pictures from court, Twitter and Facebook updates, blog posts and even Google searches.
By Kathleen Haughney
The state's court system could see an $8 million increase under a budget proposed by Gov. Charlie Crist.
By Peter Franceschina
As Scott Rothstein was hiding in Morocco from anxious investors last October, he exchanged a series of desperate e-mails with a financial adviser as his $1.2 billion fraud scheme was blowing up.
Editorial
The U.S. Supreme Court bulldozed the legal landscape for federal political campaigns last week, knocking down decades-old rules against corporations and labor unions bankrolling political advertisements.
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