FEATURED STORIES
By Clifford Krauss and John M. Broder
Related: BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Oil Well Before Blast
Suspected tar balls wash up on Pensacola Beach
Pensacola News Journal
Crist expected to axe spending
Tampa Tribune
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Dara Kam
After a two-year hiatus, back-to-school shoppers will get a three-day tax break in August on school supplies and clothing, shoes and other wearable items costing $50 or less.
By Jim Ash
Senate Majority Leader Alex Diaz de la Portilla has been ordered to stay away from his estranged wife and the Governors Club, a popular Tallahassee institution, under a temporary injunction issued last week by a Tallahassee circuit judge.
POLITICAL RACES
By Tristram Korten
Rick Scott, the latest candidate to run for Florida governor in the Republican primary, has never held public office.
By Mark Schlueb
A bunch of Republican candidates want to unseat firebrand U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, but there's not much difference among them when it comes to issues.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Joy-Ann Reid
Irony is often part of politics. (Think No Child Left Behind.) But the newly announced lawsuit by Reps. Corrine Brown and Mario Diaz-Balart plows new ground.
By Howard Troxler
Want to know one of the sneaky things the Florida Legislature did this year? It put Amendment 7 on this November's ballot.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Scott Maxwell
Of all the people assigning blame for the massive oil spill in the gulf, it's awfully strange that one of them is John Mica.
By William E. Gibson
The United States needs to shore up its ocean observation system at a cost of roughly a billion dollars a year to track massive oil spills and help protect coastal environments, a leading oceanographer from Florida said at a Capitol Hill briefing on Wednesday.
By Cooper Levey-Baker
As its franchise agreement with energy giant Florida Power & Light comes up for renewal for the first time in a generation, Sarasota leaders are taking the opportunity to aggressively renegotiate the terms that govern how FPL provides power to the city.
By Bruce Ritchie
Gov. Charlie Crist says he is giving HB 1565 regarding agency rule-making "a close look" as he considers whether to sign the bill or veto it in response to opposition.
Editorial
Power grabs on behalf of special interests are nothing new to the Florida Legislature, but the passage of HB 1565 may have sunk the practice to a new low.
Editorial
As millions watched the live feed of British Patroleum's attempt Wednesday to plug the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico, anger and frustration mounted, nowhere more than among Gulf residents.
LGBT
The Progress Report
On Monday, advocates of ending the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy -- which prohibits gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military -- held two separate meetings (which the Center for American Progress attended) with congressional leaders and White House officials to find a way to meet President Obama's pledge of eliminating the ban before the end of the year.
By Liz Halloran
Sen. Ben Nelson announced Wednesday that he will support a measure that sets Congress on a course to repeal as early as this week the 17-year-old federal law banning openly gay Americans from serving in the military.
EDUCATION
By Hannah Sampson
In its second effort to snag $700 million in federal grants, Florida has something it didn't have before: support from teachers unions and the state's second-largest school district.
By Nathan Crabbe
The free ride is over for University of Florida students.
Editorial
If you want your child in public school to learn about the upside of McCarthyism and to think approvingly of Confederate generals, then Texas is your state.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Aaron Hale
Southwest Florida businesses aren't likely a top priority for BP when it comes to reimbursement from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By Tom Bayles
The inventory of unsold homes listed in Southwest Florida is hovering near its lowest point since the housing market began its decline four years ago.
By Sandra Pedicini
Back-to-school shopping just got a little less expensive.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jim Saunders
As Republican leaders offer dire warnings about states' cost burden under federal health reform, a new report says moving nearly 1 million Floridians into the Medicaid system would dramatically reduce the number of uninsured people in the state --- with Washington picking up most of the tab.
Staff Report
Gov. Charlie Crist today said he might veto funding for the University of Florida's academic and research center in the budding medical city at Lake Nona.
By Mary Jo Melone
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry maintains that sedation for children is safe.
Editorial
An amendment that would require any woman in Florida considering an abortion to obtain and pay for an ultrasound is reason enough for Gov. Crist to veto House Bill 1143.
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