PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
Reported by Jerry Hume
Excerpt: "The attorney general of Florida is supposed to be the people's attorney and the people of Florida clearly want to have access to health care, so why he would be spending our tax dollars to fight against a solution to our health care problem is baffling to me," says Damien Filer, political director, Progress Florida.
By Whitney Ray
Supporters of the new health care regulations unrolled a 60 foot long petition signed by more than 76-hundred Floridians in the state Attorney General's Office this morning.
By Carol Rosenberg
Excerpt: Rather, the experts told us that the fate of near-offshore drilling is in the hands of the Florida Legislature, which in the 1980s adopted a ban in state waters. It was passed "in the wake of the Exxon-Valdez spill by the Florida Legislature" and designed to protect their coastal waters, said Mark Ferrulo, executive director of Progress Florida, a drilling opponent.
FEATURED STORIES
By Tim Padgett
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has to decide by April 30 whether he wants to run as an independent for his state's open U.S. Senate seat this fall -- an option he finally conceded this week he's considering.
By Adam C. Smith
Charlie Crist is poised to leap into the great unknown.
By Jay Weaver, Beth Reinhard and Lucy Morgan
Federal law enforcement agencies have launched a criminal investigation into the use of American Express cards issued by the Republican Party of Florida to elected officials and staff, according to sources familiar with the probe.
By Cristina Silva, Rebecca Catalanello and Jeffrey Solochek
In a dramatic education shift, Gov. Charlie Crist signed into law tougher graduation requirements Tuesday for public high school students that will eventually replace the math and science Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
By Dara Kam
Senate Republican leaders today refused to give the thumbs-up to two of Gov. Charlie Crist's appointed utility regulators in what the chairwoman of the Public Service Commission called political payback for Crist's recent vetoes of two key GOP initiatives.
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Marc Caputo
If you don't like President Barack Obama's administration, Wednesday's your day in the Florida House of Representatives.
Staff Report
The Florida House on Tuesday night unveiled its plan to respond to the veto of SB 6, the controversial legislation that stripped job protections for teachers.
By John Frank
The final passage of two litigation measures Tuesday gave Florida trial lawyer two legislative victories in a year when few were expected.
POLITICAL RACES
By William March
Related: If Crist ditches GOP, 'no-party' label likely
Fla. gov has many political options; none are good
The Associated Press
By George Bennett
Palm Beach Post
GOP chairman urges Crist to remain a Republican
Tallahassee Democrat
Rubio picks up Cretul endorsement
Tallahassee Democrat
Ethical questions forces Rep. Ros-Lehtinen to cancel fundraiser
Miami Herald
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Mary Ellen Klas
Not every black Democrat likes the the counter-amendment being pushed by Republican legislative leaders.
By Jim Saunders
Floridians could vote this fall on a proposed constitutional amendment that Republican supporters say would offer "freedom" from requirements of a new federal health-reform law.
By Dori Sutter
Like a game show, produced and directed by developers and local officials and sponsored by the economy, development provides an entertaining scenario until the show ends with too much growth, too fast and without need.
By Dara Kam
Children's services councils that have taxing authority would have to go before the voters every twelve years under a controversial proposal revived today by Sen. Joe Negron.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Bruce Ritchie
The House agreed Tuesday to provide money for Florida Forever, ending a year-long funding drought for the state land-buying program.
By Brian Skoloff
Residents of a neighborhood on the edge of a polluted Florida Superfund site sued the property owners Tuesday, seeking at least $500 million to decontaminate their homes and monitor their health.
By Caren Burmeister
The Atlantic right whale calving season is over, and while it didn't set records, biologists are pleased that 19 calves were born, many of them off St. Johns County's coast.
EDUCATION
By Leslie Postal
Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday signed a bill requiring students to take more difficult math and science courses and pass new end-of-course exams to earn high-school diplomas.
By Cristina Silva
Republican senators sat aghast Tuesday as Pace High School principal Frank Lay described the religious ban at his public school.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Catherine Whittenburg
Lawmakers have said for months that creating jobs is their top priority, but critics say the Legislature's plan to shrink a transportation trust fund will wipe out more than 11,000 jobs.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Margie Menzel
Attorney General Bill McCollum, the front-runner in the GOP primary for governor, has said all along that his lawsuit to block the new federal health-care-reform measure isn't driven by politics.
By Steve Bousquet and Marc Caputo
A second day of budget talks Tuesday produced at least one group of winners: retired public employees.
By Catherine Whittenburg
With fewer than 10 days left before the legislative session ends, an aggressive House plan to overhaul Medicaid may be in trouble.
By Gina Presson
The venom of the Brazilian pit viper, the saliva of the Mexican Gila monster, and tree bark of the Bornean rainforests - all hold ingredients of life-saving medications.
By Catherine Whittenburg
The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute scored a victory Tuesday when House and Senate budget negotiators agreed to give the institution $10 million next fiscal year.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Lee Logan
Spurred by a 2006 video showing a group of teenagers bashing a homeless man with baseball bats, House lawmakers voted Tuesday to give the homeless added protection under the state's hate crimes law.
The Associated Press
Dorothy Irene Height, a pioneering voice of the civil rights movement whose activism stretched from the New Deal to the election of President Barack Obama, died Tuesday.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Tom McLaughlin
Lawyers for Ray Sansom and Bob Richburg will be in court in Tallahassee Wednesday morning to argue for dismissal of criminal charges against their clients.
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