PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Abel Harding
ProgressFlorida.org, a progressive blog, has compiled a map that provides a visual of all the coastal communities in the state of Florida who have announced opposition to offshore drilling.
FEATURED STORIES
By Josh Hafenbrack
Related AP story: Florida lawmakers today get a hard look at money available for state budget
Crist's influence could wane in final session
Florida Times-Union
By Jim Ash
Tallahassee Democrat
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Bill Cotterell
Florida taxpayers could save hundreds of millions by severely cutting pension and insurance benefits for state employees, the head of the Legislature's fiscal watchdog agency told House and Senate members Monday.
By Dara Kam
Open government advocates and a state senator who's had her own problems obtaining public records are backing a sweeping bill making it easier for people to get government records.
By Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore and John Frank
Florida's oldest reform school has survived a century of failure and scandal.
By Dara Kam
Peggy Lee and her husband, Mark, cried last week for two days straight.
Editorial
Florida has long been a leader in open government and records laws. Now state lawmakers should seize the opportunity and approve one of the broadest extensions of such laws in years.
POLITICAL RACES
By Kyle Munzenrieder
Poor Charlie Crist. The man who actively encouraged him to run for Senate in the first place, Sen. John Cornyn, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is now painting Crist's role in the election as that of a political sacrificial pawn.
By Kate Bradshaw
Ultra-conservative South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint praised U.S. Senate hopeful Marco Rubio at Saturday's Lincoln Day dinner in Tampa.
By Robert Siegel
Gov. Charlie Crist likes to tell Florida voters that he could have sought re-election this year and conceivably run unopposed.
By Pat Rice
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's political party has largely abandoned him.
By George Bennett
In remarks that had the feel of a 2012 presidential campaign preview, former Massachusetts Gov. and 2008 Republican White House aspirant Mitt Romney today said Democrats have taken the country in the wrong direction, but fed-up voters will "get America back on the right track."
By George Bennett
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele unveiled a TV spot aimed at wooing GOP donors here and in four other media markets around the U.S.
By Marc Caputo
The nation's largest voting machine company probably won't be called a monopoly for much longer in Florida and other states.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Pat Hatfield
Expect debate over Amendment 4 to help heat up Florida's already-hot summer.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Michael Peltier
With lawmakers already frustrated over a lack of oversight, recent reports on the state's landmark $536 million Everglades agreement with U.S. Sugar Corp. may add momentum for a legislative response in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the controversial deal, a key House lawmaker said Monday.
By Michael Peltier
Environmentalists, coastal business and tourism-related enterprises have a formidable ally in the fight against offshore drilling in the Gulf that is not normally associated with wading birds and preserving the pristine.
By Sonja Isger and David Fleshler
At a deserted Everglades hunting camp, Shawn Meiman creeps along a weathered boardwalk, armed with a revolver loaded with shotgun shells -- powerful enough to kill something big, with a wide enough spray to allow for less-than-pinpoint accuracy.
By Cammy Clark
January's big chill led to widespread death of corals in many near shore and mid-channel reefs from Biscayne Bay to Summerland Key, but most of the popular offshore diving and fishing reefs in the Florida Keys were spared.
LGBT
By Michael C. Bender
Related: Democrat drops support for bill that could make movies with gay characters ineligible for tax credit
Tax money for movies - hetero-only movies, please
Orlando Sentinel
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Kenneth Chang
President Obama will spell out his vision for the future of American astronauts in space at a conference that the administration is planning for Florida next month.
By Josh Hafenbrack
There are now 2.56 million Floridians on food stamps.
By Chris Umpierre
The Fort Myers-Cape Coral metropolitan area received the second-least per capita census-guided federal assistance in the country in 2008, according to an academic study released today.
By Gary Fineout
On a recent sunny day in South Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist took a shovel of dirt and hurled it on the ground to celebrate the start a massive $1.8 billion project to add reversible toll lanes to Interstate 595.
The Associated Press
Several more small startup property insurers in Florida are headed for insolvency, leaving tens of thousands of homeowners looking for a new company as hurricane season approaches June 1.
By Suzie Schottelkotte
After standing in line for nearly 45 minutes Friday, Diane Vierra finally presented her documents to the state examiner to renew her driver license.
EDUCATION
The Associated Press
The sponsor calls it a "hammer." The head of Florida's statewide teachers union says it's more like a "nuclear weapon."
By Katherine Albers
The sponsor calls it a "hammer," while the head of the state teacher's union calls it "a nuclear weapon." In Collier County, the Superintendent is calling it a disaster.
By Luis Zaragoza
Navid Saint and thousands of other students at Florida's cash-strapped community colleges have learned a vital lesson about signing up for classes during the state's budget crisis: Don't procrastinate.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Bob LaMendola
Republican U.S. Sen. George LeMieux called his own town meeting on the health care Monday, then heard from both factions of the national debate.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Adora Nweze
Those of you reading this will probably answer the 2010 Census.
Editorial
It's good to hear a bid for immigration reform is in the wings. Unfortunately, the vital reforms have now been relegated to a last-ditch effort in an election year.
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