PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Lesley Clark
Excerpt: "Bob Graham has been a longtime ally in the fight against drilling," said Mark Ferrulo, executive director of Progress Florida. "He'll make the watchdog a dog and not a puppy."
FEATURED STORIES
Press Release
Excerpt: "As the newest arm of The American Independent News Network, our mission is simple," said Cooper Levey-Baker, editor of The Florida Independent. "To publish stories that shed light on underreported issues, to write pieces that make complicated issues clearer, to deliver the knowledge you need to make informed decisions about our democracy and better serve our communities."
By Dara Kam
Related: Feds resist calls to take over oil leak crisis ... for now; 'top kill' planned for Wednesday
Bill McCollum's attacks on rival Rick Scott clash with his record in Congress
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Lakeland Sen. Paula Dockery Drops Out of Governor's Race
Lakeland Ledger
Crist weighs veto of $60.6 million in projects TaxWatch calls budget turkeys
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
FLORIDA POLITICS
By News Service of Florida
Despite a modest agenda, communications giant AT&T spent up to $1.1 million in the first quarter of 2010 on lobbyists, more than any other principal.
By Travis Pillow
Gov. Charlie Crist has until Friday to act on H.B. 1565, an overhaul of rule-making procedures that would limit the ability of state agencies to pass new regulations.
By David Hunt
U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio jabbed at the Virginia congressional delegation, saying efforts to stall an aircraft carrier's move from Norfolk to Jacksonville have been purely political.
POLITICAL RACES
By Dara Kam
Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday that not getting the AFL-CIO's endorsement will not hurt his independent campaign for the U.S. Senate.
By Tristram Korten
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced his desire to call for a special legislative session this month to take care of urgent state business -- a proposal to ban offshore oil drilling following the oil rig accident in Louisiana.
Staff Report
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne is suing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for using the band's song "Road to Nowhere" in a campaign ad without permission, Bloomberg News reported.
By David Hunt
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has unveiled the second phase of an economic platform he said he'd use as governor to build 500,000 new jobs -- many of them high-tech jobs -- within six years.
Editorial
The Republican candidate for governor with years of legislative experience and scant support in the opinion polls dropped out of the race on Monday.
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.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Henry Fountain
Related: In Standoff With Environmental Officials, BP Stays With an Oil Spill Dispersant
Pat Campbell never met a well he couldn't kill.
By Bill Cotterell
With protesters outside the Capitol loudly demanding an end of offshore oil drilling, Gov. Charlie Crist had a "very productive" conversation Monday with President Obama and other Gulf Coast governors worried about the environmental and economic impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
By Robert Trigaux
The gulf oil spill will cost oil giant BP and maybe others like Deepwater Horizon rig owner Transocean and Halliburton a barrelful of bucks in cleanup expenses.
By Sue Sturgis
Coal ash is one of the country's biggest waste streams and is full of toxic substances, yet it remains virtually unregulated.
Editorial
The sluggish, inadequate response by both oil giant BP and the federal government to the uncontrolled oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico has allowed a tragic accident to become an environmental catastrophe.
EDUCATION
By Christopher O'Donnell
When Barbara Kenney began teaching art 25 years ago, her principal gave her $1,800 a year for supplies.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By James A. Jones Jr.
The "disaster to end all disasters" is what Reggie Brown of the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange calls the glut of tomatoes that has depressed tomato prices around the state.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Matt Reed
The pro-life bill sent to Gov. Charlie Crist seems benign enough.
By Kelli Kennedy
A few months after a 10-year-old child was placed with eight other children in a Tampa foster home overseen by a single mom, a 13-year-old boy sneaked into his room and raped him in 2005.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Marcos Restrepo
A Miami-based organization of young immigration reform activists, Students Working for Equal Rights, recently walked from Miami to Washington, D.C., in an effort to pressure Congress -- and Florida lawmakers in particular -- to support the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.
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