FEATURED STORIES
By Adam C. Smith and Beth Reinhard
Charlie Crist's supporters across Florida are in varying states of panic, and for good reason: Two polls released this week show the once-inevitable Republican U.S. Senate nominee trailing challenger Marco Rubio by 12 points and 14 points among GOP voters.
By Dara Kam
State House members of both parties battered Gov. Charlie Crist's proposed $69.2 billion today, lambasting it for what they called unsound financial assumptions and suggesting he resubmit another plan.
Staff Report
A newly filed ballot proposal to weaken Florida's class size limits drew immediate opposition Tuesday from the statewide teachers union and U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, who led a 2002 campaign that put the requirements in the state constitution.
By Steve Bousquet
A last-ditch attempt by Rep. Ray Sansom to dismiss or delay charges that he damaged the Legislature's integrity failed Tuesday as a panel of his colleagues voted to put the former speaker on trial later this month.
By George Bennett
State Sen. Ted Deutch scored a blowout victory in a special Democratic congressional primary tonight while the Republican primary was too close to call in Robert Wexler's old U.S. House district.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Bill Cotterell
A special committee refused to dismiss a complaint against former House Speaker Ray Sansom today, then voted to proceed with a trial-like hearing on Feb. 22.
By Kim Wilmath
To Mayor Pam Iorio, it was a courteous little bow.
By Angeline J. Taylor
A man Florida A&M University administrators, faculty and students relied on to lead the university during one of its darkest periods has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve in a top commerce spot.
By William March
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint -- one of the leading figures in the move to pull the national Republican Party to the right -- will headline the Hillsborough County Republican Party's major annual fundraising dinner in March.
By Leslie Williams Hale
A former first family is coming to Bonita Springs to highlight literacy.
By Matthew Haggman
The bid to recall Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez has fallen short.
POLITICAL RACES
By Gary Fineout
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio has come out against including illegal immigrants in the national census -- even though doing so could significantly reduce Florida's political power and share of federal funding.
By David Damron
South Florida transplant Armando Gutierrez says he wanted to serve in Congress - but he also saw a chance to find a way to bring major league baseball to Orlando.
Staff Report
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan ended 2009 with more than 100 times more money in his campaign account than his Democratic challenger in the 13th Congressional District, James T. Golden, according to the Federal Elections Commission.
Staff Report
Joseph F. Crowley, a Democratic candidate for Florida House District 31 in Brevard County, is in federal custody after being arrested for using the telephone to induce a minor boy into sexual activity, arrest records show.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Bill Cotterell
Florida voters would get a chance to "right size the class size" next November, under a constitutional amendment endorsed Tuesday by two legislative leaders and a wide array of education administrators, teachers and parents.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Walter Pacheco
The derogatory comments about gays and other minorities found in an air marshals field office in Orlando are raising concerns at the congressional level.
Editorial
`Don't ask, don't tell'' is not only patently unfair, it's also self-defeating. Since the policy was put into effect in 1993, U.S. military forces have discharged some 13,500 gay men and lesbians.
Editorial
Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave Congress unnecessary cover Tuesday when he suggested he needed a year to study the impact of repealing the 1993 law that bars those who are openly gay from serving in the military.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Curtis Morgan
Even before its justices rule, the Florida Supreme Court has erected a potential legal hurdle to Gov. Charlie Crist's $536 million land deal with the U.S. Sugar Corp.
By Mary Ellen Klas
A Florida Senate committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that would tighten the ethics requirements on the Public Service Commission, but the measure was immediately criticized as too soft on the companies the commission regulates.
By Bruce Ritchie
Eight Florida senators today heard from Wakulla Springs State Park supporters about their efforts to fight increasing nitrogen levels that have caused the springs to become choked with weeds and algae.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Gina Presson and Deb Courson
A delegation of about 15 "green-energy" business leaders from Florida converges on Washington D.C. on Wednesday to show support for Congressional action on comprehensive climate and energy legislation.
By James Dean
NASA plans to bring three decades of shuttle flights to an end this year after five more missions.
EDUCATION
By Kathy Bushouse and Marc Freeman
South Florida's schools are in wait-and-watch mode.
By Leslie Postal
Florida's pre-kindergarten program is in financial trouble -- facing a nearly $29 million budget shortfall this year and a worse deficit next year.
Editorial
For 10 years, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test -- alternately known as the FCAT or the bane of student and teachers -- has held the reputation of every public school and the academic fate of every student in its grip.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Christine Jordan Sexton
This could be the year the state of Florida eliminates its popular MediPass program, which gives more than half a million Medicaid recipients, mostly aged and disabled Floridians, an alternative to HMOs.
By Marc Caputo
Costs are down. Patients appear to be satisfied. Doctors are practicing more preventive care.
By Jim Ash
Calling them the "forgotten children," safety advocates are back again this year with a bill that would require car booster seats for kids 4-7.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By John Frank
If a child rides in a race car or climbs a rock wall, a parent is typically expected to sign a company's liability waiver acknowledging the risks.
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