FEATURED STORIES
By Aaron Deslatte
A growing number of senior Florida Republican leaders are calling for an outside legal review of the secret fundraising contract that paid former Executive Director Delmar Johnson nearly $200,000 last year.
By Alex Leary and Steve Bousquet
It has the potential of a bombshell: Some of the biggest names in Florida politics, including U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio, raising their hands and swearing to tell the truth about what they knew of state Rep. Ray Sansom's dealings with a Panhandle college.
By Frank Gluck
It was "The Hug" seen around the conservative world, one Marco Rubio hopes will help him better Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican Senate primary.
By Ron Matus
Florida lawmakers are poised to consider a dramatic expansion of the state's private-school voucher program for low-income students.
By Anne W. Schultz
We need to draw a line in the sand," Dave Rauschkolb blurted out when he first heard the news.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Bill Cotterell
Whatever is in the Florida Republican Party's financial records probably can't be as bad as its refusal to, as one candidate for governor put it, "come clean."
By Tom Lyons
Hard economic times make financial gluttony by politicians even more worthy of outrage.
The Associated Press
A House disciplinary panel is discussing the possibility of a consent decree to resolve an ethics case against ousted House Speaker Ray Sansom, a committee chairman said today.
By Gary Fineout
Saying they are moving to protect the "2nd Amendment right to bear arms," a House panel on Wednesday approved a measure that would place a lock box on the trust fund that is used to pay for processing concealed weapons permits as well as regulating private investigators and security officers.
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
With recent studies showing 28 percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused by drivers talking or texting on cell phones, Florida legislators are moving to crack down on distracted drivers.
By John Frank
In an effort to regain credibility, the powerful trial lawyer lobby hired one of the state's top Democratic campaign consultants to guide its political strategy.
POLITICAL RACES
By Jim DeFede
There have been many pictures taken during Florida road trips that have come back to haunt those on the wrong side of the camera.
By Patricia Mazzei
U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio reveled in support from conservatives looking for a voice Wednesday in a part-fundraiser, part-pep rally that brought full circle one of the most stunning reversals in Florida politics.
By Gary Graves
Congressman Kendrick Meek (D) needed a vehicle to promote his U.S. Senate campaign to Florida voters yet never expected a literal visualization on Mike Wallace's NASCAR Nationwide Series car.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Victor Manuel Ramos
Florida's illegal immigrant population has significantly declined -- with 80,000 fewer in the state since 2000, according to a new report.
By Bart Jansen
Four immigrants, three of them in the country illegally, are walking from Miami to Washington to encourage President Barack Obama and Congress to change immigration policy.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Bruce Ritchie
Members of a house budget-writing panel today took another shot at the Florida Forever land-buying program.
By Craig Pittman
Opponents of offshore drilling are hoping thousands of people dressed in black will join them Saturday holding hands on beaches around the state for 10 minutes.
By Cathy Harrelson
It isn't always easy to organize people in a far-flung state like Florida. But we're trying to do it to stand up for our beaches.
By Matt Dixon
Democratic candidate for Agriculture Commissioner Scott Maddox held a press conference Wednesday with Mayor Scott Clemons regarding their opposition to offshore oil drilling.
By Brandon Larrabee
The death of Sen. Jim King, R-Jacksonville, could cause supporters of a drive to increase the amount of power Florida draws from renewable or nuclear sources to scale back their goals.
By Christopher Curry
The Florida Public Service Commission appeared poised to narrowly vote down Gainesville's application for a 100 megawatt wood-burning biomass power plant on Tuesday, but commissioners instead granted the city's last minute request to delay the vote in order to provide the city more time to answer state regulators' concerns.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Bill Cotterell
Local governments filed suit to overturn new restrictions on local impact fees Wednesday, saying the Legislature unconstitutionally forced them to prove their fees are accurate.
By Bob Koslow
The new year started with no relief from the high number of foreclosure filings across Volusia and Flagler counties and the state.
By I.M. Stackel
Three Southwest Florida legislators are aiming to secure the economic climate by empowering a state agency with tighter control over debt settlement vendors and international banks and trusts.
By Mary Shanklin
Orlando-area foreclosure filings dipped 18 percent during January from the month before, yet the four-county metro area still had the 10th-highest rate of foreclosure activity in the U.S. last month.
By Matt Dixon
Provisions in a state jobs bill would change how economic development groups report their spending of tax dollars.
By Michael Pollick
Technology-oriented companies rubbing shoulders with Southwest Florida's two largest economic development agencies have gone public with plans to create at least 400 new jobs, including three fresh announcements this week.
EDUCATION
By Leslie Postal
More Florida high school students than ever are taking Advanced Placement classes and doing well on the exams, putting the state at the top of the national pack when it comes to preparing students for the rigors of college, according to a national report released this morning.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Christine Jordan Sexton
After opposing expansion of 'Medicaid Reform' for three years, Gov. Charlie Crist said Tuesday he's "open" to seeing it grow beyond its current five Florida counties.
By Jeff Kottkamp
As part of my responsibilities as lieutenant governor, I oversee the Governor's Office of Drug Control.
By John Dorschner
A week after board members expressed outrage at Jackson Health System's wildly miscalculated losses, its chief financial officer "has stepped down."
Editorial
When a cancer patient participates in a clinical trial, everyone is in that person's debt.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Kathleen Haughney
In 2008, the Legislature and governor created a body that was required to recommend changes in the state's criminal justice system, including the sentencing guidelines.
By Kristen Warren
Few would contend that prisons, particularly Florida prisons, do not need to be reformed.
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