FEATURED STORIES
By Bill Cotterell
Attorney General Bill McCollum Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the federal health-care plan Tuesday -- minutes after President Obama signed it into law.
By Marc Caputo
Related: Individual health insurance mandate started as a Republican idea
Democrats slam McCollum's hiring of ex-law partner to handle health care challenge
Palm Beach Post
McCollum estimates out-of-date
Health News Florida
White House, experts: Health care suit will fail
The Associated Press
Fla. House panel OKs $67.2 billion budget bill
The Associated Press
Senate bill would cut back on environmental permitting process
St. Petersburg Times
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Josh Hafenbrack
In a major shift, the salaries of Florida's 167,000 teachers could soon be tied to student test scores, rather than seniority and education level.
By Jim Ash
Facing one of the leanest budget years in decades, children's advocates worked the Capitol on Tuesday, determined to fight social-service cuts that could top $600 million.
By Robert Samuels
Condo bills have flooded the Capitol.
By Aaron Deslatte
The Florida Legislature's top brass have cut a Solomon-like bargain with warring businesses and trial lawyers, agreeing to place new restrictions on lawsuits over injuries at tourist spots and grocery stores while making it easier to collect damages from the government.
By Dan Christiansen
Flagged by Broward officials for a conflict of interest, county lobbyist Ron Book has agreed to stop pushing for a new state law that county officials say would seriously undermine Broward's pretrial intervention program and cost local taxpayers millions.
The Associated Press
The Florida House has sent Gov. Charlie Crist a bill that will prohibit lawmakers from raiding a trust fund that covers the costs of the state's concealed weapons permitting program.
By Sara Kennedy
Local tomato growers are cheering a bill that passed in the Florida Senate on Tuesday that is designed to ensure the safety of Florida-grown tomatoes, following a salmonella scare two years ago.
By Lee Logan
Heading into the midway point of the legislative session, lawmakers are ready Wednesday to tackle immigration, local-government advertising and the dissolving a massive state agency.
POLITICAL RACES
By Kathleen McGrory
As President Barack Obama signed a sweeping $938 billion healthcare reform bill into law, two of the four candidates running in Florida's U.S. Senate race said they would fight the new legislation.
By Beth Reinhard
Former House Speaker Marco Rubio misspent donations to the Republican Party of Florida and his political committees "to subsidize his lifestyle," according to a sweeping complaint filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics.
By Adam C. Smith
Why was former state GOP executive director Delmar Johnson charging so many Charlie Crist campaign expenses on his party credit card?
By Tom McLaughlin
The race for the Republican nomination for the District 4 state House seat looked early on like it could be a runaway, but attorney Matt Gaetz escaped with a victory by a final margin of just 635 votes.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Dale White
A voters rights group says a county attorney tried to circumvent the will of the voters and the state Supreme Court and get locally mandated election audits banned by the Legislature.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Sean Kinane
Yesterday was World Water Day.
By William E. Gibson
A proposed ban on the sale and importation of pythons and other constrictive snakes threatens the livelihood of thousands of pet shops and breeders, Congress was told on Tuesday.
LGBT
By TaMaryn Waters
Leon County commissioners voted 4-3 tonight to move forward with an ordinance designed to give protection to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
By Nathan Crabbe
The wedding ceremonies that took place Tuesday at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law had a few differences from the real deal.
By Tony Plakas
"Whom would you rather have adopting: gun owners or gays?" That was Thursday's Sun Sentinel "Today's Buzz" poll.
Editorial
Rather than revive Florida's dying film industry, the Legislature is trying to smother it.
EDUCATION
By Cristina Silva
Related: Florida Senate's tenure bill still beats up on teachers
Dems fighting class-size limit changes
Tallahassee Democrat
Class-size cost crunch hits Florida school districts
Orlando Sentinel
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Kris Hundley
On March 1, the state agency that invests public pension money issued a news release bragging about a 16.3 percent rebound in its portfolio in the second half of 2009.
By John Frank
Facing increasing criticism, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty assured state leaders Tuesday he is working to stabilize the state's troubled insurance market.
By USA Today
Florida is lagging behind the rest of the country about 10 days after 120 million census questionnaires were mailed to every address in the United States.
By Tom Bayles and Aaron Kessler
Homes sales in Southwest Florida bucked a third straight month of decline nationwide, but prices in this region fell for the second straight month.
The Associated Press
Legoland has gotten a leg up from Gov. Charlie Crist in the Florida Cabinet.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Marc Ambinder
Reading through the complaint filed by 13 state attorneys general, against the health reform legislation, reader @calchala was struck by something that wasn't there: the lack of any specific case citation to buttress the underlying claim that it is unconstitutional for the federal government to impose on individuals a mandate to buy health care and to punish those who don't by levying a fine.
Staff Report
That's pretty misleading when only one out of 13 attorneys general supporting the lawsuit is something other than a Republican. As such, we rate his claim Barely True.
By Gina Presson
With more people expected to gain access to health insurance under federal reform, the next hurdle may be finding doctors and other health professionals to take care of them, especially in rural areas.
By Will Hobson
Rep. Allen Boyd's vote for health care legislation Sunday was a vote against Sallie Mae.
By George Bennett
Influential tea party figure Dick Armey, in Palm Beach County for a political fund-raiser, said "deplorable" racial and anti-gay slurs at a protest in Washington Saturday were not representative of the conservative movement.
By Bart Jansen
Even as President Barack Obama signed a landmark health care reform bill into law Tuesday, advocates for the elderly urged lawmakers to close a gap in Medicare drug coverage affecting 300,000 Floridians.
By John Dorschner
While Jackson Health System renegotiates a contract with its second major union, its executives and governing board members are starting a new analysis of the public hospital system and working out a long-term plan for a "Sustainable Jackson."
Editorial
What happened in Republican-controlled Tallahassee after Democrats passed out a major health care reform bill this week was nothing more than political theater.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Karen Voyles
The names of six attorneys who live in Alachua County are being sent to Gov. Charlie Crist to consider for two vacant county judge positions.
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