FEATURED STORIES
By Steve Bousquet and Mary Ellen Klas
Gov. Charlie Crist's announcement Tuesday that he would call a special legislative session this month to ask voters to ban oil drilling off Florida's coast and revive renewable energy legislation immediately sparked an angry clash between the independent Crist and his former Republican colleagues.
By Michael C. Bender and Dara Kam
Related: Politics nudges drilling for spotlight, as Governor Crist calls special session on drilling
Officials: Spill to rival multiple hurricanes
Florida Today
Scandal's ripples hit governor's race
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Big donors face question: Demand refund from Crist?
Orlando Sentinel
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Bill Cotterell
On Tuesday, Gov. Charlie Crist said Floridians should vote on banning offshore oil drilling but legislative leaders accused him of trying to slide into the U.S. Senate on the BP oil spill.
By Brandon Larrabee
After this year's legislative session, Gov. Charlie Crist finds himself in a familiar position: Weighing a property-insurance bill that's aimed at helping shore up the industry but that might also boost prices.
By Dan Tracy
Orlando and other proponents of red-light cameras are upset that the AAA Auto Club South is making a surprise, last-minute attempt to convince Gov. Charlie Crist to veto a bill that would allow the traffic-enforcement systems on state roads.
The Associated Press
Florida's governor has signed a bill eliminating all time limits for filing criminal or civil action alleging sexual abuse of children.
By Christian M. Wade
After months of planning and preparation, backers of Tampa's bid to host the 2012 Republican National Convention find out today if the city's efforts are successful.
By Greg Speed
In six months, voters may determine control of Congress for the next decade in elections for governors and legislatures that will control the redistricting process in most states.
POLITICAL RACES
By Alvin McEwen
The George Rekers escort scandal seems to have tendrils which reach way beyond destroying the effectiveness of religious right "experts" to speak against lgbt issues in court.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Dinah Voyles Pulver
State legislators appear headed back to Tallahassee for a special session that could give Florida voters the chance to ban offshore oil drilling.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By H. Josef Hebert and Harry R. Weber
Political patience is washing away for BP executives who can't stop a broken underwater well from spewing oil into the Gulf, where crews were trying the latest solution - submerging a second containment box designed to funnel the gusher to a waiting tanker.
By Alex Leary
As oil continued to gush from an exploded rig in the Gulf of Mexico, lawmakers Tuesday sharply questioned officials from three companies behind the disaster while the executives pointed fingers at each other.
By Tom McLaughlin
The winds of fortune continued to blow Florida's way Tuesday, and state officials were given another day to chart plans to battle an oil spill whose arrival still appears imminent.
By Amy Sherman
As part of a nationwide movement of protests against oil giant BP in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, demonstrators plan to gather at 6 p.m. Wednesday in front of the federal courthouse on Broward Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.
By Robert Trigaux
Just over 1,240 days ago, in December 2006, Progress Energy Florida chief Jeff Lyash first visited the St. Petersburg Times to unveil plans for a nuclear power plant in Levy County and to utter these words: "It's important to have a new nuclear plant in Florida."
By Bruce Ritchie
Florida's solar energy rebate program is broke and due to expire, but Gov. Charlie Crist indicated Tuesday he would consider helping the program during a special session.
By Amara Sohn and Brian Hamacher
A controversial building proposal in Sunrise that would put a massive hotel complex right on the border of the Everglades is a little too close for comfort for some local activists.
Editorial
Floridians have a responsibility to protect the state's seas, shores and estuaries.
Editorial
In a stunning reversal of fortune, the chances of oil and gas drilling as near as five miles off Florida's coast have gone from reasonably possible to highly improbable -- all thanks to the massive oil spill from the still uncapped well in the Gulf of Mexico.
LGBT
By TaMaryn Waters
It turned into an issue that struck emotions deeper than many expected.
By Steve Rothaus
Attorney General Bill McCollum personally requested that the state's Department of Children and Families hire antigay psychologist George Rekers at $300 an hour as an expert witness to defend Florida's ban on gay people adopting, records show.
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
He purported to cure homosexual urges. But if that were possible, you'd think he'd have started with himself.
EDUCATION
The Associated Press
Florida governor has signed a bill requiring middle school students to take a civics class and pass an end-of-course test.
By Linda Trimble
Volusia County school officials are staring at stiff fines if they miss the state target in keeping the size of core academic classes within constitutional limits this fall even though voters could change the rules a month later.
Editorial
Florida's Bright Futures scholarship program helps keep more of our best high school grads at this state's colleges and universities.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Gina Jordan
Florida has already spent more than $16-billion in federal stimulus money. The man appointed by Governor Charlie Crist to monitor funds from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act expects the state will take in about $19.9-billion in all.
Staff Report
Home prices rose 8 percent in both Sarasota-Bradenton and Charlotte County-North Port during the first quarter from a year ago, but were down from a busier fourth quarter.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Timothy R. Wolfrum
Local abortion-rights activists will rally Thursday against a bill they say they had little opportunity to oppose before it was passed by the Florida Legislature.
By Jim Saunders
When Republican lawmakers created the Florida Health Choices program in 2008, they billed it as a way to deregulate the health-care market for small businesses.
Editorial
It is another decision that will define Charlie Crist's political ideology, but more importantly, it's a choice that could lead Florida to an inequitable process for restricting abortions.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
The Associated Press
Florida's governor has signed a bill that increases penalties against attackers who target the homeless.
By Marc Valero
Arizona is about 1,500 miles away from Florida, but members and supporters of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in Highlands County strongly oppose the Grand Canyon State's controversial new immigration law and don't want any part of it to somehow pervade the Sunshine State.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Jon Burnstein
A former executive director of the Florida Republican Party spent more than an hour testifying Tuesday before a federal grand jury in the criminal investigation centering on Broward political operator Dr. Alan Mendelsohn.
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