PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Dale White
Excerpt: Ferrulo noted that some state legislators favor drilling within three miles of Florida's coast. "If this spill happened just three miles off our coast, how many people from around the world would be cancelling hotel reservations," Ferrulo said. The state could require years to recover from the damage to coastlines and fisheries, Ferrulo said. "Our coast defines us around the world."
FEATURED STORIES
By Marc Caputo, Mary Ellen Klas and Craig Pittman
Related editorial: Oil spill opens minds to threat to Florida beaches
Three-way Senate race could help Democrats
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Fla. budget deal avoids tax hikes, major cuts
Gainesville Sun
Legislature wonders what Crist will do with budget
Florida Times-Union
Tens of millions for 'turkeys' in state budget
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Lawmakers assembling a bundle of tax breaks and cash incentives to promote jobs
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Aaron Deslatte
The House is advancing a tweaked version of a multi-million-dollar package designed to help save space jobs, promote films, encourage employers to hire laid-off workers and cap taxes on boat and airplane sales.
By Dara Kam
The Florida Senate sent two of Gov. Charlie Crist's utility regulators packing Tuesday, saying they were unqualified.
Staff Report
For the past two months, Paul Clark has used up 80 hours of his vacation time standing silently in the Capitol holding a sign urging lawmakers to fully fund public libraries.
By Dara Kam
Red light runners would have to pay a $158 fine if they're caught on camera in a 24/7 traffic surveillance system outlined in a bill on its way to Gov. Charlie Crist's desk for signature.
By Mary Ellen Klas and John Frank
Businesses such as theme parks and go-cart tracks that offer potentially dangerous fun will regain liability protection for injuries to children that they lost due to a court ruling.
By Robert Samuels
With less than 72 hours left in this year's legislative session, the sponsor of a mammoth condo relief bill that grew even more as lawmakers tacked on new provisions declared Tuesday that the proposal can take no more changes.
By Bill Cotterell
Florida's longest-serving state legislator said goodbye to the Senate on Tuesday with a mix of humor and nostalgia.
POLITICAL RACES
By Michael C. Bender
Gov. Charlie Crist is scheduled to return to his hometown of St. Petersburg on Thursday to announce whether he'll remain in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate or run for the office as an independent.
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
With more signs of his growing independence, Gov. Charlie Crist said he will end the drama over his political future on Thursday with a decision on the U.S. Senate race.
By Sean Kinane
At this point, the leading Democrat running for governor of Florida is Alex Sink, the state's chief financial officer.
By Daniel Shoer Roth
From a studio in Coral Gables, Roberto RodrÃguez Tejera, a popular host on Spanish-language radio, is feeling firsthand the fallout of the credit card scandal that has tarnished the image of the Republican Party of Florida.
By Jonathan Martin
Talk privately to just about any leading Republican about the 2012 presidential race, and you'll often hear a sentence that starts with: "If his last name were ..."
BALLOT INITIATIVES
West Palm Beach Liberal Examiner
The Florida Republican Party is afraid of you - and the rest of the voters in your neighborhood, county and all across the state.
By Sandra Horikami
Voters in Volusia County who petitioned for the Fair Districts Florida amendments (Amendments 5 and 6) that will be on the November ballot, should be outraged!
By Bob Kerrigan
This November, voters will vote on Amendments Five and Six to the Florida Constitution.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Kevin Spear
Florida scientists are warning that much of the state's coastline -- even to the Keys and beaches in southeast Florida -- is vulnerable to damage if workers can't quickly contain crude oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from a stricken well off the Louisiana shore.
By Paul Flemming
Gov. Charlie Crist Tuesday took a look for himself at the oil spill that could threaten Florida's coast as well as proposals to allow drilling in state waters.
By Bryan Walsh
The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico last week was without question a human tragedy.
By Fred Grimm
A few days ago, the oil gushing out of the ruins of the Deepwater Horizon was termed "manageable."
By Sue Carlton
A couple of months back I was walking one of our glorious beaches on a cool Saturday morning when people dressed in black started showing up by the dozens.
By Jim Ash
The same Republican led House that last year voted to open Florida waters to offshore drilling on Tuesday continued killing Democratic attempts to expand a popular solar energy rebate program.
By Mary Ellen Klas
Florida legislators had second thoughts Monday about a plan to allow Florida's four largest utility companies to bypass the rate-setting process and raise customers' electric rates by $772 million for renewable energy projects by 2013.
Editorial
How many public officials and independent authorities have told the Miami-Dade County Commission that moving the Urban Development Boundary would open the floodgates to westward expansion for no good reason?
EDUCATION
By Kimberly Miller
The Florida House passed a bill Monday that establishes standards and procedures regarding the use, monitoring, documentation and reporting of seclusion and restraint on students with disabilities.
By Michelle Hammontree-Garcia
Enough with the standardized tests! That was the message that Kendall parents, teachers and students gave Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho at his latest town hall meeting Monday night.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
The Progress Report
Senate Republicans, joined by Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), voted yesterday to prevent a key Wall Street reform bill from reaching the floor for debate, thereby launching "a standoff that throws the sweeping legislation into a period of uncertainty."
By Jeff Weinberger
When several hundred Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) members and supporters set out from Tampa last Friday on a 22 mile trek to the Lakeland headquarters of grocery goliath Publix Corp., it was just one more leg of a 17 year journey of historic importance to the cause of social and labor justice.
By Anthony Clark
Florida consumer confidence took a surprising jump in April to the highest level in 2 1/2 years on the strength of home and appliance rebates, while a separate U.S. index rose to a 1 1/2-year high as concerns about jobs and the economy eased.
By Catherine Whittenburg
Tampa Bay area lawmakers are fighting a last-minute plan in the Legislature to take $69 million from the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority.
Editorial
Sen. J.D. Alexander was not elected statewide.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUEs
By George Bennett
After a ceremony in Spanish and English to mark his signing of candidate papers for the U.S. Senate, Republican Marco Rubio broke with some GOP conservatives Tuesday and cautiously criticized a new Arizona law that attempts to crack down on illegal immigration.
By Jonathan Martin
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is speaking out against the new hard-line immigration law in Arizona, becoming the first prominent national Republican to do so.
By Alfonso Chardy and Juan Carlos Chavez
South Florida immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday denounced a new Arizona law that requires police officers to detain suspected undocumented immigrants and announced plans for a rally Saturday in Miami to support legalizing those who live and work illegally in the United States.
By Jose Patino Girona and Ray Reyes
The tough new immigration law in Arizona has set off shockwaves on both sides of the U.S. and Mexican border.
By Mike Thomas
A law targeting Hispanic immigrants in Arizona is spilling over into Florida politics.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Bill Kaczor
An appeals court Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to decide if state contracts with faith-based organizations to provide social services violate the Florida Constitution's ``no-aid'' provision.
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