PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Curtis Morgan and Scott Hiaasen
Excerpt: Mark Ferrulo, executive director of Progress Florida, said federal regulators have let drillers roll the dice at the public expense for too long. "When BP is making $93 million a day in profits, they're going to do everything possible to convince the public this activity is safe," he said. "It's pure hogwash."
By Ron Matus and Jeffrey S. Solochek
Excerpt: Damien Filer, former spokesman for Florida's Coalition to Reduce Class Size, the group that led the 2002 effort, said parents will make up their minds regardless of what dueling studies say. "Is it worth some investment for their child to be in a class where they can get adequate attention from their teachers?" Filer asked. "They'll say yes every time."
FEATURED STORIES
By Ian Urbina
Related: Size of Oil Spill Underestimated, Scientists Say
By Rick Jervis
Pensacola News Journal
Planned Parenthood rallies across the state, calling on Crist to veto pre-abortion ultrasound bill
Orlando Sentinel
Crist expects to veto all special projects in budget
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
McCollum wasted tax dollars on a controversial psychologist
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
BEST OF THE BLOGS
By Joy Reid
The past 19 months have been very good to Florida Democrats, between the implosion of the scandal-plagued Republican Party of Florida (more grimey news on that front here), and its existential split with its former darling and top fundraiser, Charlie Crist (though it remains to be seen if the chief victim of Crist's apostasy will be Marco Rubio or Kendrick Meek.)
By Iinkberries
For a guy who is running for Governor of Florida, Bill McCollum sure has a funny way of going about getting votes.
By Peter Schorsch
A new statewide poll released by Ron Sachs Communications shows an open and competitive field in the state Cabinet races for Attorney General, Chief Financial Officer and Agriculture Commissioner, with most voters undecided.
By Brian S.
Amy told me about this yesterday--Tina Harden is an Orlando mom who thinks she ought to be able to decide, unilaterally, which books belong on the public library's shelves.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Adam C. Smith
Something peculiar is going on with Charlie Crist.
By Josh Hafenbrack
He may be a lame duck governor with no political party, but Charlie Crist has one big weapon in his arsenal: the veto pen. Expect him to use it.
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
Florida will keep its role as the most intriguing political destination in America, with the Republicans announcing Wednesday that they will hold their 2012 national convention in Tampa.
By Sara Kennedy
Gov. Charlie Crist signed the Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Act on Thursday, creating uniform standards for the use of cameras as a deterrent to red-light running.
POLITICAL RACES
By Beth Reinhard
The Republican Party's frontrunner for governor, Attorney General Bill McCollum, threw his support Thursday behind a tough new immigration law in Arizona that he criticized as "far out'' just two weeks ago.
By Brendan Farrington
The issue of immigration is emerging as sort of a litmus test for candidates in Florida's busy political season.
By David Hunt
State Sen. Paula Dockery, a Republican candidate for governor, worked the campaign trail in Jacksonville on Thursday with a tale of her fight against one of the city's corporate giants.
By Adam S. Smith
It's his big sister, Margaret Crist Wood, there in the background of this photograph by Scott Keeler.
By Alex Leary
He was there but not there, exhausted and unshaven, pacing on the periphery of Straub Park while a crowd grew for the blockbuster announcement.
By Don Ruane
Marco Rubio hit hard Thursday on the need for economic reforms and thanked Southwest Florida for believing in him, during a campaign stop in Cape Coral.
Editorial
Attorney General Bill McCollum and George Rekers have this in common: They were both happy to hire sleazy services, and they knew what they were getting for the money.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Alex Leary
Sen. Bill Nelson's hard-charging reaction to the gulf oil disaster ran into a wall Thursday, a reminder of how influential the industry remains.
By Gina Presson
The race is on to protect birds threatened by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; birds that would also be finding their way to other locations.
By Cain Burdeau
For a spill now nearly half the size of Exxon Valdez, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is pretty hard to pin down.
By Joshua Lee Holton
Yesterday, activists in St. Petersburg protested BP's response to the oil spill in the Gulf.
By David Fleshler
If oil from the Gulf spill comes to South Florida, a different scene is likely to unfold from the desperate struggle taking place off the Louisiana coast.
Staff Report
Florida has set up a toll-free telephone line to provide residents and visitors with information about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Editorial
Among the many actual and potential casualties of the Gulf oil spill is the U.S. Senate's climate-change bill.
EDUCATION
By Angeline J. Taylor
Today marks the second day that Florida State University's faculty and administrators will face off in an arbitration hearing in the training center on Jackson Bluff Road.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Toluse Olorunnipa
Nearly five months after Gov. Charlie Crist announced ``Florida Back to Work,'' a program that would pump $200 million into state coffers and create as many as 25,000 jobs this year, only 56 South Floridians have been hired -- and time is ticking.
By David M. Herszenhorn
In the latest sign of the zeal in Congress to get tough on Wall Street, the Senate approved two initiatives on Thursday aimed at addressing the role that major credit rating agencies played in the 2008 financial collapse, including a proposal to end the reliance on companies like Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
The Associated Press
Attorney General Bill McCollum plans to talk to the media about developments in the lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
By Gina Presson
A recent report delivered to President Obama by a special panel appointed by President Bush warned that the risk of cancer from environmental toxins is "grossly under-estimated."
By Marty Clear
An outbreak of hepatitis C that originated at a clinic near Tampa last year occurred during treatments that mainstream medicine views as virtually worthless - even risky.
By Mike Wells
Rather than simply resign from WellCare Health Plans' board of directors and leave peacefully, Dr. Regina Herzlinger apparently isn't willing to let the company have the last word.
By Deborah Circelli
A bill that would have ensured tighter controls on administering psychotropic drugs to foster children failed to pass this legislative session, but the head of the state Department of Children & Families is moving forward with rules he says will ensure children are safe.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
The Progress Report
Immediately after President Obama announced Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, the right-wing attack machine kicked into high gear.
The Associated Press
The man considered the swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court is due to speak in Florida.
By Paula McMahon
Former Broward Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, now Inmate 91181-004, will begin serving his 2 1/2 year federal prison sentence Friday.
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