FEATURED STORIES
By Cristina Silva and Steve Bousquet
Related: Bush calls Crist, asks him to sign SB 6
Republican concedes; Deutch keeps Wexler's South Florida congressional district Democratic seat
Palm Beach Post
GOP gets big bucks from interest groups
Orlando Sentinel
Chances appear better this year for abortion limits, school prayer and school vouchers
Palm Beach Post
Abortion, school prayer and school vouchers are perennial issues that conservative lawmakers try to advance and Democrats consistently oppose.
By Kris Wernowsky
The first hearing in a nationwide lawsuit that seeks to strike down key elements of the recently enacted health care reform law is set for today in Pensacola.
By Peter Wallsten and Valerie Bauerlein
Hounded by conservative activists as too liberal, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is being advised by some close supporters to abandon his lagging Republican primary bid for a U.S. Senate seat and run instead as an independent.
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Marc Caputo
In a mix of health care politics and acrimony in the state Capitol, a Senate panel Tuesday unexpectedly rejected Gov. Charlie Crist's hand-picked chief to oversee the state's mammoth Medicaid program.
By Paul Flemming
The Legislature is setting a collision course with Gov. Charlie Crist on a bill that would allow insurance companies to raise rates up to 20 percent a year on individual policyholders without regulatory approval.
The Associated Press
Gov. Charlie Crist's two new appointees to the Florida Public Service Commission are set for a Senate confirmation hearing.
By John Frank
Kelli Stargel still remembers what it was like to be 17 years old and pregnant.
By Mary Ellen Klas
A Florida Senate committee offered a last-ditch handout to Florida's ailing dog tracks and jai alai frontons Tuesday, passing a bill to give them a tax break to make it easier to compete with the growing gambling presence of the Seminole Tribe.
POLITICAL RACES
By John Frank
At a recent campaign pitch to the Florida Farm Bureau, attorney general candidate Holly Benson fielded this discordant question: "Where do you stand on Senate Bill 6?"
By Lee Logan
Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum continues to close the financial gap with Alex Sink in Florida's gubernatorial race, but the Democratic chief financial officer still holds a large cash advantage.
The Associated Press
At least one Florida Republican didn't like his choices for governor in the GOP primary. So he's going to run himself.
By Jim Stratton and Christine Show
Marco Rubio, up in the polls and boosted by a huge fund-raising quarter, brought his campaign for U.S. Senate to Central Florida on Tuesday, rallying supporters in downtown Orlando before heading into Lake County for a stop in the Villages and a spot on FOX News.
By Aaron Sharockman
He hasn't yet been elected to the U.S. Senate.
By Aaron Sharockman
Gov. Charlie Crist, facing an exceedingly difficult Republican U.S. Senate primary, has launched a second blistering television attack against former House Speaker Marco Rubio.
By Lesley Clark
Former Miami-Dade Democratic party chief Joe Garcia resigned Tuesday from the Obama administration to jump into a hotly contested race for a congressional seat in Miami.
By Tom McLaughlin
Staunchly Republican Northwest Florida showed it remains red to the core Tuesday as GOP candidate Matt Gaetz was elected to succeed Ray Sansom in state House District 4.
By Chad Smith
Craig Lowe got more votes, but he's not mayor-elect just yet.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Gary Fineout
Voters in Florida this fall could be confronted with the most crowded ballot in a decade.
By Bruce Ritchie
The new group opposing Amendment 4, the "Florida Hometown Democracy" amendment to the Florida Constitution, raised nearly $1 million in its first quarter of existence with most of its contributions coming from business and development interests.
By Sean Kinane
Today the state House and Senate moved a step closer to including an amendment to November's ballot to repeal a ban on state funds to religious institutions.
By George Andreassi
Martin County Commissioner Sarah Heard endorsed Amendment 4 Tuesday during a rally for the ballot initiative that would require voters to approve all land use changes.
Editorial
Florida Hometown Democracy supporters will rally today in Martin County.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Steve Newborn
We're at the midway point in the legislative session in Tallahassee, and one of the programs whose future is in doubt is the state's pioneering land-buying program, Florida Forever.
By Bruce Ritchie
With more than 100 land-buying projects facing a review and ranking by the state, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is encouraging project supporters to participate in a pair of public hearings over the next four weeks.
By Bruce Ritchie
A petroleum tanks cleanup bill in the House has been amended to extend the deadline for tank site owners to replace older tanks that could leak.
LGBT
By Deirdre Conner
He had planned to be a face in the crowd.
By Todd Wright
It's a clause nearly two decades overdue and takes up only a couple of lines in a medical log.
EDUCATION
By Leslie Postal and Josh Hafenbrack
The deadline for Gov. Charlie Crist to decide the future of a landmark teacher merit-pay bill ends in just days - and the push to convince him to sign or veto the legislation is in full frenzy mode.
By Ron Word
Gov. Charlie Crist said he still hasn't made up his mind on Senate Bill 6, the controversial teacher merit pay legislation that ties future teacher pay to student performance and eliminates teacher tenure.
By Paul Flemming
A Friday deadline for action on a teachers' merit-pay bill is enveloping the Capitol with lobbying efforts on both sides.
By Brandon Larrabee
Business groups and former Gov. Jeb Bush's foundation pushed Tuesday for Gov. Charlie Crist to sign a controversial teacher pay bill at the same time a rival for the state's open U.S. Senate seat called on the governor to veto the measure.
By Michael C. Bender
Opponents and supporters of a controversial teacher bill accuse each other of using scare tactics and half-truths to push their point.
Editorial
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, already distrusted by conservatives, will likely be pilloried if he vetoes the legislation eliminating tenure for teachers.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
Staff Report
Lenders repossessed nearly 9,200 properties in South Florida during the first quarter of 2010, a 25 percent increase from the first quarter of 2009, according to a new report from CondoVultures.com.
By Doug Sword
The predicted wave of commercial real estate foreclosures could harm the struggling economy in Florida even more than in other boom states.
By Kenneth Chang
President Obama will seek to promote his vision for the nation's human space flight program on Thursday, just two days after three storied Apollo astronauts -- including Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the Moon -- called the new plans "devastating."
Staff Report
State-backed property insurer Citizens Insurance is flush with cash and can weather a 25-year storm, and wouldn't have to levy assessments until it has a $14 billion storm, the agency told the governor and Cabinet Tuesday.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Gary Fineout
Attorney General Bill McCollum's push to block federal health care reform may now have an unintended target.
By John Lantigua
In the heart of the Medicare fraud capital of the nation, two South Florida members of Congress declared war Tuesday.
By Jim Saunders
In a surprising turnaround from last week, a top Senate health chairman Monday called off two meetings that had been scheduled to scrutinize a House proposal for overhauling the Medicaid system.
By Jim Saunders
When a Senate committee voted today against the confirmation of Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Tom Arnold, the question started swirling in the Capitol: Was it because of policy or politics?
By Gina Jordan
Saying mental health is just as important as physical health, a bill taken up by the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee Tuesday would require companies to offer coverage for mental and nervous disorders.
Editorial
Competing proposals for overhauling Florida's Medicaid program have two things in common.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Jon Burstein
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to ask a federal grand jury to indict embattled Broward political operator Alan Mendelsohn on criminal tax charges.
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