FEATURED STORIES
By Marc Caputo
Charlie Crist was a lame duck. Boxed in. Irrelevant.
By David Cantanese
A widening federal criminal investigation into the state Republican Party's credit card usage is unsettling the Florida GOP Senate primary, raising concerns about its potential effect on GOP frontrunner Marco Rubio's campaign and providing hope to Democrats who believe it could be the storyline that stalls the surging conservative's momentum.
By Adam C. Smith, Beth Reinhard, Marc Caputo and John Frank
Reeling from a criminal probe into the Florida GOP's finances, Republican leaders finally got a peek Wednesday at the spending habits of the man at the center of the long-running scandal: Jim Greer.
By Cristina Silva
Not content to simply shape Florida law, House leaders advanced a series of bills Wednesday aimed at muzzling or stalling President Barack Obama's health, legal, environmental, space and fiscal agendas.
Editorial
Florida has been dominated for so long by one political party -- first Democrats and now Republicans -- it's hard to imagine what true competitive elections for Congress and the Legislature might look like.
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Robert Samuels
Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to sign a bill expanding voucher options for low-income children on Thursday, a day when local issues should be the buzz of the Capitol.
By Bill Kaczor
Florida joined the call for a federal constitutional convention to pass a balanced budget amendment on a largely partisan vote Monday in the Republican-controlled House.
By Michael Peltier
A skeptical governor and a rapidly shifting political landscape appear to be the death knell for a measure allowing property insurers to raise rates without regulatory approval, the Senate sponsor said Wednesday.
Editorial
With the session winding down, as legislators try to reconcile differences in the House and Senate budget proposals, there may be good news for Jackson Health System.
POLITICAL RACES
By Damien Cave
Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida darted out of the Tallahassee rain on Tuesday, dragging a band of reporters to his office before answering The Question: Will you leave the Republican Party to run for the United States Senate as an independent -- and why are you considering it?
By Aaron Deslatte
Related: Crist stayed at Orlando resort on RPOF credit card
Rubio's Ethics Becoming Issue In Senate Campaign
Huffington Post
Fla. Sen. candidate: No fear of credit card probe
The Associated Press
Merit-pay veto wins Crist a teacher-paid TV ad, loses him some old GOP friends
Palm Beach Post
By Jeremy Wallace
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
GOP references remain in Crist's campaign website, contrary to allegations
St. Petersburg Times
Will Webster run against Grayson? It looks like it
Orlando Sentinel
BALLOT INITIATIVES
The Associated Press
A ballot proposal that would bar Floridians from being forced to participate in health care programs is heading for a vote.
By Richard Mullins
Children's services boards in Hillsborough, Pinellas and other Florida counties may face voter referendums in the coming years - but not as early as this fall.
Editorial
Conservative Republicans, blind to the inevitable harm they would do to every Floridian's freedom, are seeking once again to undermine the state's long and pragmatic tradition of separating church and state.
Editorial
They want their voices to be heard, and their votes to make a difference.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Bruce Ritchie
The Florida House adopted resolutions Wednesday calling on Congress to roll back federal environmental regulations or not adopt new ones.
By Bruce Ritchie
House and Senate budget conferees have agreed to provide $2 million to the Florida Department of Health for an ongoing study of septic tank technologies.
By Steve Patterson
Some of the first public discussions in decades about oil and gas exploration off Florida's Atlantic coast opened Wednesday in Jacksonville with a small crowd that saw a lot at stake.
By Bruce Ritchie
Twelve national and southern environmental groups called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to delay action on proposed new nuclear plants, including two in Florida, because of design flaws that raise safety issues.
Editorial
Legislators have two weeks left in their 2010 session to show Floridians they care about the environment.
Editorial
The biggest surprise of Florida's current legislative session is that a wild 'n' woolly fight over near-shore drilling, a fight that just about everyone expected, never happened.
LGBT
Editorial
President Obama's order that nearly all hospitals allow patients to say who has visitation rights and who can help make medical decisions is sensible, humane and another step toward equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.
EDUCATION
By Catherine Whittenburg
Florida's public schools will receive the same amount of money per student next year that they are getting now, House and Senate lawmakers decided Wednesday.
By Leslie Postal
A presentation last fall for Florida school administrators ended with a zinger: "Florida students are pretty much last in the nation for science."
The Associated Press
A bill requiring middle school students to take a civics class and pass an end-of-course test is on its way to Gov. Charlie Crist.
State workers could face pay cuts
Tallahassee Democrat
Mortgage Foreclosures Causing Concern
Capitol News Service
Holding Wall Street Accountable
Think Progress
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jim Saunders
Already tangled in questions about whether to overhaul Florida's $19 billion Medicaid program, the House and Senate face a new wildcard in the debate: Gov. Charlie Crist.
By Jim Saunders
With the bill's sponsor saying it would reshape the "mission of the department,'' the House this morning overwhelmingly approved a plan to revamp --- and shrink --- the Florida Department of Health.
By Anne Geggis
In a mark of just how difficult a budget year this is, for the first time in its 19 years of existence, the state-funded nonprofit agency for pregnant women and babies, called the Healthy Start Coalition, was slated to end.
By Janine Zeitlin
Some of the state's most vulnerable residents, including foster children and mentally ill people, will likely lose an independent advocate.
By Jeremy Cox
A little-noticed bill would enable the Florida Department of Children and Families for the first time to ask a court to decide whether a mentally or physically impaired adult needs a guardian.
By Robert Samuels
These are boom times for Florida's public medical schools.
By Carol Gentry
Florida could expect to gain $820 million and over 3,400 high-value jobs in the next decade if the University of Miami's Sylvester Cancer Center wins designation as an official part of the National Cancer Institute network, a UM-funded study says.
By Marc Caputo
The Jackson Health System could get a $50 million boost from the state -- but top lawmakers warn that the money would come with strings attached.
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