FEATURED STORIES
By Cara Fitzpatrick
Florida's education team, led by Gov. Charlie Crist, will make its pitch Tuesday in Washington for why the state should get a whopping $1 billion piece of a $4 billion federal grant intended to reward states for pursuing aggressive school reform.
By Mark McGriff
During a public hearing in Tallahassee just a few weeks ago, State Rep. Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, who will be the Speaker of the Florida House later this year, said this: "Words have meaning, particularly when they're in the Constitution."
By Jeremy Wallace
Opening Florida's Gulf Coast to oil drilling would have almost no impact on prices at the pump or on the state's ongoing budget problems, a nonpartisan commission told a key committee of the Legislature on Monday.
By John Frank and Craig Pittman
One subject that roiled last year's legislative session is largely absent from lawmakers' vocabulary this year: growth management.
Editorial
Marco Rubio is quickly emerging as a freewheeling big spender of special interest cash even as the U.S. Senate candidate sells himself as a fiscal hawk.
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Gary Fineout
Despite the state's own budget mess and a record unemployment rate, lawmakers in Tallahassee on Tuesday are expected to debate whether or not Congress should be forced to balance the federal budget.
By Lisa Marzilli
Barely two weeks into the 2010 state legislative session and pro choice advocates could have cause to worry; this session brings with it no less than seven anti-choice bills.
By Bill Cotterell
At a luncheon celebrating government in the sunshine, House Speaker Larry Cretul said Monday he won't push a bill exempting 911 emergency tapes from public disclosure.
By Bill Rufty
As the Legislature begins looking once again at government agency trust funds to shore up crumbling state revenues, Senate budget chief J.D. Alexander has come up with a use of a trust fund that has almost everyone cheering.
By John Kennedy
While conceding no dollar amount has been set, Senate President Jeff Atwater said today the Senate is committed to rolling back at least some of the $500 million worth of motor vehicle fees approved just last spring.
By Dara Kam
Free speech advocates are up in arms about a House bill that would harshly penalize individuals handing out flyers on property owned by hoteliers.
By News Service Of Florida
Following up on a 2008 Constitutional amendment aimed at promoting renewable energy upgrades and hurricane prevention, a House panel today approved a measure to prevent appraisers from including such upgrades in a home's assessed value.
POLITICAL RACES
By Peter Hamby
Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio defended himself Monday after a news report revealed that two political committees he started while serving in the Florida House spent heavily on operating costs and payments to relatives, but did little to help other Republicans seeking office.
By David Gauvey Herbert
Marco Rubio was born in Miami to Cuban-born parents, became the first Cuban-American speaker of the Florida House, and he takes a hard line on U.S. policy towards Havana.
By Kate Bradshaw
As things heat up between Marco Rubio and Gov. Charlie Crist ahead of the GOP Senate primary, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek is the Democrat many expect will face one or both of them in November.
By Amy Sherman
The Obama administration "spent more money on the Cash for Clunkers program than the space program."
By Seanna Adcox
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint said Monday he's "less confident" that Republicans can stop President Barack Obama's health care overhaul from passing now that it's down to a few votes.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Ron Word
On the day about 9 million Floridian households received their U.S. census forms in the mail, reporters were shown a demonstration of software that will be used to determine the population, shape and size of congressional districts and state House and Senate districts.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Steve Patterson
State water managers and utilities, some offering determined resistance, are drafting long-term plans for taking drinking water from Northeast Florida's rivers.
By Steve Patterson
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson visited a long-vacant Superfund site on Jacksonville's Talleyrand riverfront Monday to say he will try to reinstate taxes on the oil and chemical industries to pay for environmental cleanups at the country's most contaminated places.
By Glen Gardner
There are only some 100 Florida panthers left in the state, and public awareness may be the key to their long-term survival.
By Jim Ash
With its chief proponent saying he is in no hurry, the push to open Florida waters to oil and gas drilling inched past another milestone Monday when a House panel was briefed on a report by a Florida think tank.
LGBT
By Anthony Man
The gay rights group Equality Florida is recognizing U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, for their support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
EDUCATION
By Kathleen McGrory and Hannah Sampson
President Obama's overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law will focus more on raising the bar for students and teachers -- and less on punishing failing schools.
By Colleen Wixon
Proposed legislation tying teacher pay to test scores could impact future union negotiations, teachers and students, Treasure Coast educators said.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Cristina Silva
The state Department of Community Affairs announced a series of sweeping changes Friday to a widely criticized housing program, including the dismissal of a senior staffer and a streamlined grant approval process.
By Cristina Silva
State lawmakers have proposed a series of tax cuts and incentives this year for a handful of property owners.
By James Thorner
Court-ordered mediation was pitched as a faster and easier way to ease Florida's mortgage crisis.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
The Progress Report
This afternoon, the House Budget Committee will begin marking-up the health care reconciliation package, signaling the beginning of the end of the Democrats' year-long effort to pass comprehensive health care reform.
By Bart Jansen
The House Budget Committee approved legislation Monday aimed at tweaking the Senate version of the health-care overhaul, despite opposition from Democratic Rep. Allen Boyd.
By David Royse
Alzheimer's patients getting community or home-based care through a Medicaid waiver program in four Florida counties, including Palm Beach County, are being reminded that the pilot program is set to expire and they need to figure out how they'll get care when it does.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Jay Weaver and Amy Sherman
Just when disgraced lawyer Scott Rothstein's sordid saga couldn't get any stranger comes this plot twist: He worked undercover for the feds and helped them bag a suspected Italian mafia man living in Miami Beach.
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