FEATURED STORIES
By Bill Cotterell
Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said Tuesday Florida government is top-heavy with boss bureaucrats and proposed a plan for thinning the herd through management attrition.
By Alex Leary
State Rep. Ray Sansom's attempt to have a fellow lawmaker removed from a panel investigating his ties to a state college has failed, and Sansom's defense was handed two other setbacks late Tuesday.
Editorial
Florida Republican leaders are struggling to contain a brewing scandal within the state party by shifting money and dodging questions.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Steve Bousquet
A bill to raise ethical standards at the Public Service Commission sailed through the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday, clearing the way for Senate floor debate as early as the first week of the 2010 session next month.
Staff Report
Attorney General Bill McCollum today released the following statement after his top legislative priority, the Transparency in Private Attorney Contracting Act, received a favorable recommendation from the House Criminal and Civil Justice Policy Council, chaired by Rep. Will Snyder.
By Laura Layden
The Bush brothers packed the house at the Naples Grande Beach Resort.
By Jeremy Wallace
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was still at a summit with tea party activists in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, when people connected to the movement hatched plans to protest his arrival in Charlotte County for meetings with top Republican fundraisers later this week.
By Jim Ash
A Tallahassee appellate court will soon weigh in on whether Florida's Sunshine Law gives citizens the right to be participants, not merely spectators, in government meetings.
Editorial
Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer is being forced out amid revelations of luxury spending and a secret contract that led to his executive director making more than $400,000 in 2009.
POLITICAL RACES
By Sergio Bendixen
Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart's announcement on Thursday that he would not seek re-election this November set off one of the rarest games of musical chairs in American politics.
By Dara Kam
The gubernatorial campaign fur continues to fly in the battle between Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum, this time over what is a tax "cut" and whether they're good or bad for businesses.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Brandon Larrabee
An effort to overhaul the state's constitutional limit on class sizes passed its first legislative hurdle Tuesday, with a Senate panel approving the measure over the objections of a teachers' union and the committee's lone Democrat.
By Scott Finn
Some lawmakers want to take a second look at the constitutional amendment that limits class size in schools.
By James Call
This November's election will determine who controls redistricting. Usually, the party with a majority of the members in the Legislature has the upper hand in the once-a-decade political chore of designing districts for Legislative and Congressional seats.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Bruce Ritchie
The upcoming legislative session will be crucial to winning passage of springs legislation, speakers on Tuesday told a crowd of more than 400 at a springs rally outside the state Capitol.
By Craig Pittman and Barbara Behrendt
So many manatees are turning up stressed from the extreme cold temperatures this winter that it's putting a strain on the statewide system for caring for the injured marine mammals.
By Bruce Ritchie
Farmer Rod Land of Lafayette County on Tuesday told federal officials at a hearing in Tallahassee that he is a fifth generation farmer and may be the last in his family if proposed a proposed federal water rule is adopted.
By John Frank
A much-anticipated report from state environmental regulators may spur Florida lawmakers to consider a ban on plastic retail bags.
By David Hunt
The U.S. Energy Department is backing up to $8.3 billion in loans to expand a Georgia nuclear plant, a project that will eventually provide JEA with 5 percent of its power.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
Stimulus money may bring 650 local jobsBy Anthony Clark
As many as 650 jobs from entry level to professional could become available soon for job seekers eligible for federal cash assistance, with 62 local employers receiving preliminary approval for $15 million in stimulus money.
By Jim Turner
U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, told a group of business people Tuesday that almost nobody in America is better off than they were a year ago when the Democrats approved the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
By Duane Marsteller
Losing their home to foreclosure was only the beginning of the Nogales family's troubles.
By Amy Bennett Williams
In a major reversal, a powerful Florida agricultural group will now let its tomato-grower members distribute to workers extra wages contributed by buyers such as grocers and fast-food companies.
By Raj Patel
The gavel came down, the auction ended, and the winners carted their new purchases home. The bidders had walked the market, seen the wares, placed their offers and the highest bid won.
By Trimmel Gomes
Florida's tourism officials are asking for your help in boosting Florida's number one industry.
EDUCATION
By Dave Weber
Cash-strapped Seminole County public schools are bracing for more budget cuts over the next two years, and officials say that continuing reductions in spending are pushing the district's highly rated schools to a "tipping point" where they may head downhill.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Fernando Quintero
If you want to live longer, Seminole County is the place to be. If you want to avoid bad air quality and unhealthy food, stay away from Orange County.
By Cynthia Washam
Brevard County's largest medical group and the U.S. Justice Department are close to settling the investigation of a complaint that the group's cancer center overbilled Medicare by more than $8 million, attorneys for both sides say.
By Bob LaMendola
A nonprofit group won $8.5 million in federal stimulus money Monday to help South Florida physicians start the complex process of converting paper files to electronic medical records.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Sarah Larimer
Florida has executed 45-year-old Martin Edward Grossman, who was convicted of killing a state wildlife officer during the 1980s.
By Diana Moskovitz
Convicted of a robbery he didn't commit, Leroy McGee's life consists of two parts: before prison and after prison.
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