FEATURED STORIES
By Marc Caputo
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Senate Republicans, 30 states move against health measure
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By David Frum
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LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Steve Bousquet
As the fourth week of the legislative session shifts into high gear, the Senate and House will tackle major components of the 2010 agenda Tuesday.
By John Frank
Florida lawmakers acknowledged Monday what teenagers know best: "sexting," as inappropriate as it seems, is not child pornography.
By Steve Bousquet
The rocky relationship between the state and an entrepreneur who scored an exclusive deal to publish the official driver safety handbook may not be over.
By Bill Cotterell
The principal, football coach and former student body president of Pace High School successfully urged a House committee Monday to approve a bill forbidding public school officials from interfering with student-led prayer.
By Sara Kennedy
State Rep. Darryl Rouson hosted a group of citizens who were in Tallahassee Monday to testify before a House committee in support of a bill that would strengthen protections against child abduction.
By Steve Bousquet
Some Florida job-creation advocates are upset over a Senate proposal to intensify oversight of regional workforce boards following lavish spending on meals and insider dealing by a handful of boards.
By Matt Dixon
At the July 2009 groundbreaking for Chipola College's new center for the arts, college president Gene Prough touted the planned 56,000-square-foot facility as "a showplace for the performing arts in the Panhandle."
POLITICAL RACES
By William March
Nationwide, Republicans are vowing electoral revenge against congressional Democrats over Sunday's vote for a national health care reform plan.
By Lesley Clark
At a time when his colleagues in Congress and rivals in the U.S. Senate race are spurning federal spending on earmarks, Rep. Kendrick Meek is asking House budget writers for nearly $238 million in projects.
By Scott Rasmussen
Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio for now runs well ahead in a three-way race for the U.S. Senate in Florida, should Governor Charlie Crist decide to run as an independent.
By Tom McLaughlin
Like many others, Rick Hord has been keeping a close eye on the special election for the state House District 4 seat.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Bruce Ritchie
Florida needs to change the way it manages and uses water in the future as it repairs the mistakes of the past, a panel of environmental book authors suggested on Saturday.
By Cathy Harrelson
After concluding the House's final workshop on the exploration of oil and gas drilling off Florida coasts on Friday, Rep. Dean Cannon (R-Winter Park) outlined three areas he expects the House bill to include when it is released in two weeks.
LGBT
By Andrew Abramson
The city commission took a stance against the state's ban on gay adoption, voting unanimously today to support a repeal of the ban.
EDUCATION
By Kathleen McGrory
It doesn't take a math geek to know that a state facing a deficit of more than $1 billion has to make cuts somewhere.
By Linda Trimble
More combined-grade classes, larger classes for gifted students and elective subjects, more high school teachers traveling from room to room.
By Walt Belcher
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program, featuring former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough, plans to originate live Thursday from Tampa.
By Bill Kaczor
The Board of Governors agreed Monday to withdraw from a lawsuit against the Florida Legislature over which body can set university tuition and other governance issues.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Derek Catron
Property owners with homesteads made out pretty well during the real-estate boom, with the state's Save Our Homes amendment protecting them from sizable tax increases even as those went up for other properties.
By Bill Cotterell
A House committee gave swift approval Monday to Rep. Tom Grady's "user-friendly" foreclosure bill, which he said will protect homeowners who fall on hard times and unclog courts flooded by a wave of bad mortgages.
By Kevin Turner
Floridians who need a new dishwasher, room air conditioner, clothes washing machine, refrigerator, freezer or water heater and want 20 percent off the price courtesy of the federal government should start planning to act quickly on April 16.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Michael C. Bender
Related: McCollum will sue to overturn health care overhaul
Florida Republicans took aim today at President Obama's health care bill by threatening a lawsuit and a constitutional amendment they hope will block the federal changes.
By William E. Gibson and Bob LaMendola
Related editorial: Health care bill's passage is only the beginning
Seniors in region will feel impact, phased in over time
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
For Southwest Florida's 184,000 seniors on Medicare, the passage of historic federal health care legislation is expected to significantly trim prescription medication costs -- though it may erode overall care for those on the government program.
By Gary Fineout
Within 24 hours of health care reform passing in Washington D.C., we had here in Florida:
By Mitra Malek
Radiation levels are normal in the homes of families whose children have developed brain tumors or brain cancer in The Acreage, the state Department of Health said today as part of its ongoing study of an unsolved cancer cluster in the semi-rural community.
Editorial
It was 20 years between the time Harry Truman proposed a health insurance program for the elderly and the day Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965, with Truman at his side.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Fred Grimm
It was a startling confluence of similar findings from dissimilar outfits.
By Peter Franceschina
Veteran Republican political operative Roger Stone took his turn on all things Scott Rothstein during a Monday deposition session, likening the Ponzi schemer to the Rodney Dangerfield character in "Caddyshack" who threw money at everyone around him.
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