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Hundreds line Pinellas County beaches to protest near-shore oil drilling
St. Petersburg Times
Rubio questions climate change
Tampa Tribune
Recession causes pain for many as others coast
New York Times via Daytona Beach News-Journal
Ten unanswered questions about the Fla GOP saga
The Buzz Blog
Editorial
Tampa Tribune
EDITORIAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
By Andy Marlette
FLORIDA POLITICS
By William March
Alex Sink, Democratic candidate for governor, told a hometown crowd of Tampa Democrats that her Republican opponent, Bill McCollum, needs to "wake up."
By Bill Thompson
Democrats on Capitol Hill have unveiled their plans to mitigate the effects of a controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling that critics claim, provides Big Business with unfettered influence over elections.
By Beth Reinhard
Related: Diaz-Balart aims to maintain fight for a free Cuba
Lakeland Commission Refuses to Pick Rail Stop From Five Possible Locations
Lakeland Ledger
POLITICAL RACES
By Brandon Larrabee
At a meeting with reporters ahead of this year's legislative session, House Speaker Larry Cretul noted that he might be different than many other members of the Legislature in what he was running for.
By Adam C. Smith
Veteran political pros and Democratic party activists across Florida increasingly fret that the woman once viewed as a sure winner for governor is proving to be a hypercautious candidate without a potent message or viable political operation.
By George Bennett
Republican Bill McCollum sought to put his race for governor in a national context tonight, mentioning Scott Brown's surprise Senate win in Massachusetts and saying Democratic rival Alex Sink is "in lockstep with liberals in Washington."
By Carl Hiaasen
Marco Rubio's campaign to win the Republican Senate primary revolves around the now-famous hug that Gov. Charlie Crist shared with Barack Obama during a presidential visit to Fort Myers last year.
By Steve Bousquet
Is it the scary poll numbers? The chorus of critics in the Republican base? The bad-mouthing by columnists and pundits?
By Brianna Keilar
NASCAR stock cars have long been traveling billboards for motor oil, whiskey, even mayonnaise and trashbags, but one of the cars whizzing Saturday along the Daytona International Speedway was a marketing vehicle for a politician.
By David Cantanese
In the run-up to one of the most closely watched conservative events of the year, Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio is launching a series of web videos designed to place the insurgent Republican in a relaxing, informal, unfiltered setting where he can tell his story in his own words.
By Brandon Larrabee
Gov. Charlie Crist sent former House Speaker Marco Rubio, his opponent in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, a Valentine on Friday.
By Matt Dixon
When it comes to Panhandle politics -- in both physical stature and clout -- Al Lawson looms large.
By Anthony Man
Former U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler left office in January, but taxpayers are still racking up bills because of his decision to resign with a year left in his term.
By Kathy Steele
Democratic and Republican primary elections last month in state House District 58 had one of the lowest voter turnouts in Hillsborough County election history.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Linda Trimble and Jim Saunders
Theresa Hobbs' daughter will start kindergarten in August, just in time for voter-approved limits on class sizes to take full effect.
Editorial
There's nothing like a good old-fashioned power-and-turf struggle to kick off another legislative season.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE, AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Tony Hill, Alan Williams and Bob Rackleff
Our state leaders can go beyond the usual rhetoric about today's 50th anniversary of Florida's first lunch counter sit-in demonstration in Tallahassee.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Sarah Owen
Chains of hand-holding Floridians stretched across shorelines from Pensacola to Key West to show solidarity in their opposition of offshore oil drilling.
By Adam Playford
The man on the stage says it's time, and Ian, who is 8, is ready.
By Maria Herrera
They looked like dark spots of tar freshly washed upon the shore.
By Todd Ruger
More than 250 people joined hands on the famous powdery sands of Siesta Public Beach on Saturday to show opposition to oil drilling as close as three to 10 miles offshore.
By Kevin Spear
The Econlockhatchee River, inky from decaying baldcypress needles and cradled in deep swamp, is intensely studied by biologists who think of the "Econ" as still much like what nature originally created.
Editorial
Washington just experienced a blizzard so heavy that some headline writers termed it "Snowmageddon."
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Kevin Turner
The Florida Supreme Court and Florida's banking industry agree there's a logjam of foreclosure cases clogging the state's circuit courts, but they disagree on what to do about it.
By Todd Ruger
A federal judge has issued a warning to Florida's homeowners in foreclosure: You'd better fight if you want your rights.
By Scott Powers
A year ago this week, President Obama signed into law the controversial $787 billion stimulus plan intended to pour billions of dollars into all 50 states and create millions of jobs.
By Josh Hafenbrack and John Maines
Florida's state government workforce now includes about 5,500 positions that have been vacant for at least a month - jobs that Floridians pay to keep open even as legislators hit them with billions in fee and tax increases.
By Missy Diaz
Ruth Duvall moved to South Florida from Bogota, Colombia, nearly three decades ago in search of the American Dream.
By Mary Shanklin
Rachel Nacion-Ograyensek and her husband are getting nervous.
By Bill Cotterell
The lilting laughter of children at play lightened the dismal morning chill in the lobby of the Gwen Cherry Child Development Center as parents signed their kids in and hurried off to work Friday, but the adults were deeply worried about finding new child care in just 11 weeks.
EDUCATION
By Colleen Wixon
Some Treasure Coast students are getting their private school education partially paid for with public dollars.
By Waldo Proffitt
Among the more sleazy activities for which I hope the American financial industry will be held accountable is the intensive and expensive campaign it is now waging to be able to keep on gouging college and graduate students to the tune of $8 billion or so in the course of the next 10 years.
By Nathan Crabbe
The University of Florida is halting enrollment cuts as a way of dealing with budget cuts.
Editorial
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks. And no more FCAT?
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jeremy Cox
Don't expect any sweeping, Congress-style health-care overhauls when the Florida Legislature convenes next month.
By McClatchy Tribune
As the nation struggled last year with rising health care costs and a recession, the five largest health insurance companies racked up combined profits of $12.2 billion -- up 56 percent over 2008, according to a new report by liberal health care activists.
By Sara K. Clarke
Worshippers at the First Baptist Church of Orlando honored U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Miami, Sunday for his role in helping rescue students and adults who were on a mission trip to Haiti when the country was rocked by an earthquake last month.
Florida Department of Children & Families Secretary George Sheldon ready for a challenge
Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times Tallahassee Bureau
Staff Report
Health News Florida
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By John Frank
Gov. Charlie Crist, once known for his support of prison chain gangs, is embracing an inmate rehabilitation effort often seen as "soft on crime."
By Curtis Krueger
Related: After 25 years, family of fallen officer comes to Florida for killer's execution
Fla. program diverts troubled kids from court
The Associated Press
Feds see rise in suspected Ponzi cases in Florida
Orlando Sentinel
Editorial
Daytona Beach News-Journal
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