FEATURED STORIES
By John Dorschner, Beth Reinhard, Frances Robles and Elinor J. Brecher
The U.S. government agreed Monday to pay for Haitian earthquake patients' treatment in Florida -- and to send some to other states -- five days after Gov. Charlie Crist's written request for federal relief.
By Dara Kam
More than $16 billion and eight years later after voters put class-size limits into the state constitution, GOP lawmakers are once again trying to weaken the caps while teachers and Democrats are lining up to fight it.
By Jim Ash
Seismic testing associated with offshore oil and gas drilling could harm Florida's $6 billion commercial and recreational fishing industry, a Florida State University researcher warned on Monday.
By Kris Hundley and Alex Leary
President Barack Obama wants to make dramatic changes in how NASA functions, jettisoning plans to return to the moon, letting private companies handle human transport into lower orbit and focusing the nation's space agency on new rocket technology.
By Christian M. Wade
Tampa is a finalist in a bid to host the 2012 Republican National Convention.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Tom McLaughlin
State Rep. Ray Sansom's motion to have his legislative misconduct hearing put off until criminal charges against him are adjudicated will likely fall on deaf ears.
By Mary Ellen Klas
Florida lawmakers will take up legislation Tuesday that would outlaw private conversations between Public Service Commission staff members and utility companies, a response to criticism that the agency is too close to the utilities it regulates.
By Jay Weaver
Justice Department prosecutors now say they'll likely charge more defendants in March as part of the public corruption indictment against one-time major Republican fundraiser Alan Mendelsohn.
POLITICAL RACES
By George Bennett
The latest Rasmussen Reports poll shows Marco Rubio opening up a 12-point lead on Gov. Charlie Crist in the GOP Senate primary race.
By George Bennett
Democrat Robert Wexler announced in October that he was leaving Congress.
By Jim Turner
Florida's 16th District has been listed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee among its 26 "races to watch" in 2010.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By News Service of Florida
Voters will decide on six proposed constitutional amendments this fall with Monday's end to the window for proposals to qualify for the ballot.
Editorial
Citizens in Northeast Florida need to pay attention to the two redistricting amendments that will be on the November ballot.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Troy Moon
People on both sides of the issue agree on one point -- gay men and women already serve honorably in the military.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Kevin Spear
No problem. That regular greeting at checkout counters doesn't look to go extinct in Florida's grocery and retail stores anytime soon after all.
By Bruce Ritchie
Scientists' lack of understanding about the complex relationships between marine organisms should be considered in the debate about oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida State University researchers said today.
By Bruce Ritchie
Some healthy streams and preserved streams in state parks and forests apparently won't meet new federal criteria for nitrogen and phosphorus, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
By Gina Presson
Record-breaking cold and frost in Miami, sinkholes caused by farmers watering crops to protect them from freezing in Central Florida, and extensive flooding near Tallahassee.
By Glen Gardner
A coalition of conservation groups wants the U.S. Navy to do the "right thing" for the right whales.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Mark K. Matthews and Robert Block
Related: NASA's new launch tower rises, but its mission is unclear
$75M in crop damage spurs disaster declaration
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Demand for Social Services Up, Supply Down
WFSU Public Radio Tallahassee
Broward gets its shot as host of Super Bowl events
Miami Herald
Florida's budget debate (or, Gov. Peppy vs. the Brothers Grimm)
St. Petersburg Times
Gov. Crist's budget proposal skirts reality, placing the state's fiscal future in jeopardy
Orlando Sentinel
A budget rightly focused on jobs
St. Petersburg Times
EDUCATION
By William E. Gibson
Florida's schools, working parents and waterways would fare well in President Barack Obama's proposed budget for the next fiscal year.
By Jeff Solochek
The defendants in the high-quality-schools lawsuit filed a motion today to have the case dismissed.
By Denise-Marie Balona
Tens of thousands of Florida children are ditching gym classes now that students in kindergarten through eighth grade can opt out with a note from Mom or Dad.
Editorial
With the FCATs just around the corner, it is crunch time once again in South Florida's schools.
Editorial
After years of supporting Florida's voter-approved class-size amendment, Gov. Charlie Crist now wants it to go away with a little creative math.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Brandon Larrabee
Managed-care organizations pressed Monday for lawmakers to move forward with a planned statewide expansion of the Medicaid reform program, while advocates for patients urged caution.
By Jeremy Cox
Cover Florida was designed to be what the state's 3.8 million uninsured residents had been waiting for: an affordable, accessible alternative to expensive health insurance plans.
By Kris Hundley
While many workers in the Tampa Bay area have had their wages frozen or reduced in the past few years, life has been kinder to chief executives at nonprofit hospitals in the Tampa Bay area.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Patricia Mazzei
Selection will begin next week for a statewide grand jury created to look into public corruption and recommend changes to Florida law -- and state prosecutors are asking the public for tips on what to investigate.
By Steve Bousquet
Harry Singletary Jr., a basketball star at Florida Presbyterian College in St. Petersburg in the '60s who later became the first African-American to run the Florida prison system, died Friday (Jan. 29, 2010).
By Steve Bousquet and Lee Logan
Florida juvenile justice chief Frank Peterman has repaid the state about $25,000 for questionable travels from Tallahassee to St. Petersburg, where his family lives and where he still preaches at a Baptist church.
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