PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Sean Kinane
Excerpt: The group Progress Florida is opposed to expanded fossil fuel drilling off the coast of Florida. Their executive director, Mark Ferrulo, says "we hope our Legislators are paying attention."
FEATURED STORIES
By Campbell Robertson and Leslie Kaufman
Officials worked Sunday to try to stop oil leaks coming from the deepwater well drilled by a rig that sank last week near Louisiana, but they acknowledged that it could be months before they are able to stem the flow of what is now about 42,000 gallons of oil a day pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.
By Adam C. Smith and Steve Bousquet
Related: At a political crossroad, Crist is front and center
Related: Crist's firm 'no' on independent Senate run morphs into 'maybe'
Charlie Crist, once Florida's spectacularly popular governor, now on the cusp of seeing his political career washed up?
By Mary Ellen Klas
Related: Florida GOP exiles Jim Greer, saying he 'injured the name and status' of the party
In an attempt to end the turmoil within the embattled Florida Republican Party, its leaders agreed Friday to disclose three years of credit-card statements detailing the spending habits of elected officials and staffers under ousted party chairman Jim Greer.
By Aaron Deslatte
Florida lawmakers are set to close a 60-day session dominated by election-year rancor, symbolic appeals to anti- Barack Obama voters, and a civil war that has pitted Republicans against their own governor.
By Jim Saunders
With differences remaining between the House and Senate --- and a possible veto by Gov. Charlie Crist looming --- an overhaul of Florida's Medicaid system will not pass this year, legislative leaders said today.
Editorial
The Florida House of Representatives leadership is holding the state's lead planning agency hostage in the waning days of the session.
EDITORIAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
Miami Herald
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By John Frank
Related: In Tallahassee today, final week begins will all eyes on Gov. Crist
By Marc Caputo and Steve Bousquet
Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times Tallahassee Bureau
By Jim Ash
Tallahassee Democrat
Thrasher camp calls ethics complaint 'politically motivated'
Florida Times-Union
Florida House approves red light cameras, has designs on the fines
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Senate passes amended insurance reform bill
Tampa Tribune
The secrets of transparency, and the son of SB 6
Florida Times-Union
Feds Ask Questions about Prison Deal
Capitol News Service
By Denise Layne
Tampa Tribune
By Brad Rogers
Ocala Star-Banner
POLITICAL RACES
By Dan Balz
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has become the star of his own personal soap opera.
By Jim Stratton
If Gov. Charlie Crist surprises no one and announces next week that he'll mount an independent bid for U.S. Senate, a lot of his Republican friends and financiers will face an ugly choice.
By Jeremy Wallace and Anna Scott
After a week of feuding in Florida's Capitol, the likes of which have rarely been seen between a sitting governor and his own party, this much seems clear: The state GOP is no longer a place where Gov. Charlie Crist can co-exist with his party's leaders.
By Marc Caputo
Nothing illustrates questionable spending at the Republican Party of Florida like the $7,500 for oil paintings of Gov. Charlie Crist and ousted Chairman Jim Greer.
By Martin Merzer
Now that Republicans have made him the U.S. Senate front-runner, Marco Rubio is trying to weather potentially damaging revelations about his credit card use, double billing for airfare and murky finances.
By Michael C. Bender
While Gov. Charlie Crist's top legislative priorities hang in the balance of the final days of the legislative session, Republican lawmakers already may have helped polish one of his biggest political assets: his populism.
By Derek Catron
He may not have any chart-topping hits, but Marco Rubio got the rock star treatment in Daytona Beach on Friday.
By Ron Word
The two front-runners in the race for governor were on opposite sides of the recent legislative fight over education reform, and their positions could affect who is elected to replace incumbent Charlie Crist.
By Liz Freeman
Florida residents can quickly become familiar with Rick Scott if they don't know anything about him already.
By Jeff Schweers
John Tobia offered his political science students at Valencia Community College in Kissimmee an option when he ran for state representative two years ago: If they volunteered on his campaign, they could skip the final exam.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Leon W. Russell, Nicholas Stephanopoulos and J. Gerald Hebert
The gerrymander -- that ugly but all-too-common creature -- has thrived in Florida for years.
By Fred Grimm
Senate District 26 suggests a Rorschach test gone bad -- a fat blob occupying a big chunk of rural Central Florida with odd protuberances, including an appendage that juts toward the Atlantic Ocean, veers sharply north, then devours most of the Space Coast.
Editorial
There's a whole lot of show business going on in Tallahassee as lawmakers prepare for a monster election.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Kevin Spear
Workers in pursuit of oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico have been dying in accidents at the rate of one every 45 days since the mid-1990s.
By Kevin Wadlow
Whatever oil leaks from the remains of a deepwater oil-drilling rig that sank Thursday off Louisiana could be headed toward the Florida Keys.
By Christine Stapleton
As the drilling rig Horizon burned on the oily surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a small group of environmentalists, government officials and oil speculators gathered at a hotel in Jacksonville to discuss environmental impact of offshore drilling -- in the Atlantic Ocean.
By Zac Anderson
Katy Swanson has her response down pat when people ask about oil drilling off the Florida coast.
By Bobbie O'Brien
The explosion and collapse of an oil rig in the off Louisiana's coastline has U.S. Senator Bill Nelson calling for a congressional investigation.
By Phil Lewis
Our newsroom can expect a series of emergency alerts from weather forecasters when the tropics spawn hurricanes each year.
By Julie Patel
Florida Power & Light Co. employs three lobbyists in Tallahassee, has 22 more who were paid at least $221,000 combined in the last quarter of 2009 and donates to state political parties -- more than $670,000 in the past 15 months.
By Bruce Ritchie
House and Senate budget negotiators on Sunday remained in disagreement on language that prohibits state agencies from requiring advanced septic tanks for another year.
Editorial
The federal government's shameful record of protecting the Florida panther is leading the state's official animal straight to its extinction.
Editorial
Last week's explosion of an oil rig off the Louisiana coast undercuts every argument in favor of allowing oil and natural gas drilling much closer to the Florida coast.
Editorial
The events this week on Deepwater Horizon oil rig, about 50 miles off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, should scuttle for good talk of lifting drilling bans in state and federal waters off Florida's coast.
The big lie about drilling for oil
Tampa Tribune
EDUCATION
By Doug Blackburn
Administrators at Florida State University, Florida A&M University and other schools in the State University System are breathing a collective sigh of relief as the Legislature closes in on a final budget.
By Bill Kaczor
A group including former Gov. and ex-U.S. Sen. Bob Graham will continue a lawsuit challenging the Legislature's authority to set tuition at state universities, although one of its partners has withdrawn.
By Sally Kestin and Dana Williams
The events that turned a Tamarac family upside down began with a mother's discovery of a love letter to her 17-year-old son.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Adam Playford and Pat Beall
The squeeze is on: For the first time in more than a decade, the Florida Retirement System no longer has 100 percent of what is needed to pay all current and expected retiree benefits.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Carol Gentry and Jim Saunders
Only hours after the Florida House and Senate voted to "opt out" of the new federal health law, the top U.S. health official said Thursday night that will not be permitted.
By Bill Kaczor
Sponsors of a massive House plan to overhaul Florida's Medicaid system on Sunday declared it dead for this year but said they'll try again in 2011.
By Jim Ash
Thousands more addicts and mental patients could begin streaming into emergency rooms and jails under a Senate proposal to slash $14.6 million in local substance abuse and mental-health programs, advocates warned on Friday.
By Jim Saunders
Unable to get the Senate to take up a normal bill to reorganize the state Department of Health, House leaders are trying a new strategy: Get the controversial reorganization added to a must-pass budget bill.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Steve Bousquet and Marc Caputo
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