PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Vicki Impoco
On Tuesday Progress Florida delivered a 60 Ft. long petition signed by thousands of Floridians and a coalition of nearly forty different organizations to Attorney General Bill McCollum's office demanding that he drop his taxpayer funded lawsuit against health care reform. McCollum is leading the effort to overturn health reform with a lawsuit paid for with our tax dollars.
By Daniel Tilson
An alliance of forty advocacy groups representing half-a-million Floridians delivered a message to the state's Attorney General on Tuesday, a response to his taxpayer-financed lawsuit that could roll back all the good that new federal health reforms will do for millions of men, women and children - as well as having other, even worse, unintended consequences.
FEATURED STORIES
By Bill Cotterell
Gov. Charlie Crist and the Republican Party moved closer to political divorce Thursday, with the party warning that it can expel any GOP activists who back an independent candidate and the governor saying he has no obligation to refund campaign contributions to Republicans who demand their money back.
By Michael C. Bender
Pressure mounted Thursday on Gov. Charlie Crist to say whether he'll stay in the Republican primary race for U.S. Senate.
The Associated Press
Former state GOP chairman Jim Greer knew how to travel in style, racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in charges in places like Key West, New York, Las Vegas, Beverly Hills, Calif. and beyond, including trips where he joined Gov. Charlie Crist at out-of-state fund-raisers for his Senate campaign.
By Jim Saunders
Plunging into the debate about federal health reform, the state House approved a measure today aimed at preventing Floridians from being required to buy health insurance.
By Bill Cotterell
Related AP story: Oil rig blast prompts environmental concerns
BEST OF THE BLOGS
By Steve Schale
By calling reporters tonight, Crist finally admitted that he is opening the door to running for something other than as a Republican for United States Senate.
By Joy Reid
Hat tip to Peter Schorsch, who links to a piece in the The St. Augustine Record, which raises questions about State Sen. John Thrasher's ties to lobbying firms who you'd think might have a vested interest in expanding high stakes testing in Florida.
By Ray Seaman
The Florida House voted to privatize a large portion of Medicaid, the health care program for the poor, yesterday.
By Beach Blogger
The big news in Florida today is that the IRS, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the North District of Florida in Tallahassee, and the FBI are investigating top officials of the Florida Republican Party, including the leading Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio, "to determine whether they misused their party credit cards for personal expenses."
By Gimleteye
It comes every single legislative session: the last minute midnight attacks on the will of the people as expressed by one piece or another of legislation.
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Steve Bousquet and Lee Logan
The long shadow cast by Ray Sansom over legislative budget writing gave way to unprecedented sunlight Thursday.
By Mary Ellen Klas
A Senate committee Thursday unveiled a late-session compromise for dealing with public corruption, wrapping together a bill to crack down on public officials who use their offices for private gain with a measure to impose new restrictions on no-bid contracts in state government.
The News Service of Florida
The Senate scaled back its pitch for library dollars while the economic development money remained a sticking point Thursday with House budget-writers.
By Dara Kam
Lawmakers are ready to give the green light to red-light cameras, setting out a uniform state code for the controversial ticket machines that could be a money maker for cities, counties and the state.
The Associated Press
Florida Republicans are having a tough time agreeing on things as the 2010 legislative session winds down.
By Robert Samuels
Without a single legislator voting "nay," a bill toughening laws against those who butcher horses or sell or purchase their meat is galloping to the desk of Gov. Charlie Crist.
POLITICAL RACES
By Alex Leary
For once, George LeMieux did not want to play the analyst. The subject was how Charlie Crist would do as an independent candidate in the U.S. Senate race.
By Brendan Farrington
Senate hopeful Marco Rubio, the new darling of the tea-party movement, finds himself caught up in a federal investigation into alleged credit-card abuses by top Florida Republicans.
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
The Republican hierarchy tightened the grip on Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday, with a new memo threatening officials with the loss of their party posts if they support Crist's bid for the U.S. Senate as an independent candidate.
By Cal Massey
Fresh off an endorsement from former Vice President Dick Cheney, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio swings through Daytona Beach today for a sold-out luncheon at LPGA International restaurant.
By David Damron
With 200-plus supporters on a grass field next to his church Thursday, former state Sen. Dan Webster said he is running against Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson.
By John Frank
It's not easy to put a political campaign disclaimer on a tweet.
By Frank Fernadez
Volusia County and a Hispanic group have settled a lawsuit over bilingual ballots but not necessarily who's to blame for the costly legal fight.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Josh Hafenbrack
When Floridians head to the polls in November, they'll face a lengthy and confusing array of constitutional amendments dealing with everything from property taxes to classroom sizes - tying the longest ballot in a decade.
By Brandon Larrabee
A new redistricting proposal working its way through the Senate is dividing minority lawmakers and the Florida Legislative Black Caucus.
By Whitney Ray
Two proposed constitutional amendments that would make Florida elections more competitive are being challenged by the state legislature.
By Bill Kaczor
The Republican-controlled Legislature wants Florida voters to tell Washington it should balance the federal budget but do it without raising taxes.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Mary Ellen Klas
After meeting resistance from the governor and Senate, the House on Thursday backed off a sweeping plan to overhaul the Public Service Commission and instead proposed a plan to study the structure of the utility regulation board.
By Bruce Ritchie
A far-reaching Senate water bill will be amended to address concerns raised by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the bill's sponsor said Thursday.
By Dinah Voyles Pulver
Under orders from state wildlife officials, Flagler County must put together a citizens advisory committee to help determine whether new boat speed limits should be imposed in sections of the Intracoastal Waterway.
By Billy Cox
State College of Florida probably crushed the record for collecting the most number of plastic bottles with the first load of the morning.
Editorial
Here's a lesson for middle-school students who will be required to take civics classes under a proposed law headed to the governor: Look out for closed-door shenanigans when a law gets passed -- or not -- in Tallahassee.
Editorial
The Florida House of Representatives leadership is holding the state's lead planning agency hostage in the waning days of the session.
EDUCATION
By Ron Matus, Jeffrey S. Solochek and Steve Bousquet
With solid bipartisan support, Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday ushered in the most sweeping expansion of private-school vouchers in Florida history.
By Luis Zaragoza
It used to be you couldn't even whisper about messing with the rules that shape Florida's generous Bright Futures merit scholarships for fear of setting off students and parents in love with the idea of free and fairly easy college money.
By Paul Flemming
Billions apart on a state spending plan, House and Senate budget chiefs held a public meeting to air the hundreds of millions that separate the two chambers on building projects at state universities and colleges.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
The Associated Press
Property insurance reform has eluded state lawmakers for several years, and it seems as if it could slip out of their grasp this year as well
By Michael Sasso
The housing crisis has been good for Florida's biggest processor of foreclosure lawsuits: Its revenue has multiplied sixfold since the housing bust began.
By Gregory Lewis
Thursday was the day the U.S. Census Bureau declared the drop-dead deadline for returning household survey forms.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Gina Jordan
Nurses hope Governor Charlie Crist will listen to them as he listened to teachers and veto the Medicaid bill moving through both chambers. Gina Jordan reports they wore scrubs and carried banners as they shared their concerns with lawmakers at the Capitol Thursday.
By Jim Saunders
Florida House and Senate negotiators appear ready to slash Medicaid funding for nursing homes and are considering cuts to numerous other health programs to balance the budget.
By Stephen Nohlgren
Elderly Floridians who want to stay out of nursing homes would be forced into managed care under two bills passed this week by the House in an effort to pare Medicaid costs.
By Denes Husty
Joyce and Richard DeFrancesco believed they bought their dream house when they moved to Cape Coral in 2006.
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