FEATURED STORIES
By Clifford Krauss
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Gov. Charlie Crist the target of frustration over state's oil spill response
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Fla. GOP candidate favors raising retirement age
The Associated Press
Bill Nelson says he'll vote for repealing military ban on gays
Tampa Tribune
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Matt Dixon
Jon Sweede misses Jim Greer and Delmar Johnson.
By Sanford Silverman, M.D.
This year was supposed to be different. With the stain on the Florida legislative process caused by the Ray Sansom saga just starting to dry, lawmakers promised a budget process conducted fully in the sunshine.
By Mark K. Matthews
For years, U.S. Rep. John Mica has taken pride in snagging federal dollars for hometown projects, once even vowing that there was "no way in hell" that he would support a ban on the so-called "earmarks" that lawmakers slip into federal spending bills.
POLITICAL RACES
By Janet Zink
In his first public campaign appearance, Republican candidate for governor Rick Scott presented himself Tuesday as a political newcomer interested in applying business principles to managing the state.
By Trenton Daniel
In 2008, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum hired a little-known psychologist to testify in favor of Florida's ban on gay adoptions.
By Derek Catron
As if 2009 hadn't been eventful enough for John Thrasher, the new head of the Florida Republican Party spoke to the Tiger Bay Club Tuesday about just how momentous this year could be.
By Anthony Man
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D- Weston, is arguably South Florida's brightest political star -- and facing an unprecedented field of challengers fighting to take her seat.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
Staff Report
Two members of Congress want a court to remove a citizen initiative on congressional redistricting from Florida's Nov. 2 ballot.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Dara Kam
BP wired $25 million to Florida Tuesday to help the state get out the message to tourists that its Panhandle beaches are clean and open for business - just some of the good news that frustrated officials received Tuesday about the massive gushing of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
With the Gulf oil spill some 55 miles from Pensacola, state officials on Tuesday vented their frustration over BP's failure to staunch the flow and ease its impact on Florida's vital summer tourist trade.
By Erica Werner
BP has agreed at the request of the Obama administration to show video of the "top kill" designed to choke off the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Bruce Ritchie
Supporters of beach sand replacement projects are welcoming a $15.5 million appropriation in the 2010-11 state budget approved by the Legislature.
LGBT
By Nathan Crabbe
A compromise on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is imperfect, but might be the best chance for repeal under the political circumstances, according to a University of Florida law professor who has studied the issue.
EDUCATION
By Kathleen Haughney
Fifty-nine school districts, three lab schools and the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind all pledged their support Tuesday to the state's revamped effort to bring in $700 million in federal dollars for Florida schools.
By Kathleen McGrory and Hannah Sampson
Florida's third-graders will soon learn whether the fourth grade is in their immediate future.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Gary Fineout
Southern states - including Florida - lead the nation in having the highest percentage of people who wind up paying no annual income taxes to the federal government.
U.S. aid still needed for hurting Florida families
St. Petersburg Times
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jim Saunders
With Florida struggling financially, a tax-watchdog group Monday called on Gov. Charlie Crist to veto $12.7 million in "turkey" projects that lawmakers stuffed into the health and human-services budget.
By Carol Gentry
If you think quality is the reason the U.S. health care system costs twice as much per capita as those of other industrial countries, here's a study you need to read.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By John Lantigua
Mike Carlton, labor relations director for the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, is sometimes criticized for his position on U.S. immigration law.
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