PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Jim Saunders
Excerpt: Stephanie Kunkel, director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, said her group is working with the American Civil Liberties Union and Progress Florida to urge opponents of the bill to contact the governor's office and push for a veto. She said people are "outraged'' by the measure and that opponents will continue ramping up efforts to influence Crist's decision.
FEATURED STORIES
By Jim Ash
Related: Oil could cause 'catastrophic' wildlife damage
Related: Sink irked with slow turnaround on oil-spill response plans
The image is inescapable whenever an oil spill makes headlines -- a solid wave of black goo pouring from the crippled Exxon Valdez.
The Associated Press
Related: Despite flashes of outrage, no definitive retreat from drilling in Washington
Drill ban could rattle Fla. Senate race
Politico
Abortion veto choice is defining, or redefining, moment for Charlie Crist
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Facing an intense public outcry, Charlie Crist confronts possibly the toughest decision of his term as governor: whether to sign or veto a bill antiabortion advocates call the "most significant pro-life measure that's ever happened in Florida's history."
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Lesley Clark
Rep. Kendrick Meek Wednesday backed two tough anti-oil industry bills, as the spill in the Gulf of Mexico began to emerge as a political dividing line in the U.S. Senate race.
By Michael Vasquez
If the Seminole Tribe of Florida included millions of members, as opposed to its actual 3,200 or so members, Gov. Charlie Crist might well be a shoo-in for U.S. Senate.
By David Hunt
With the 2010 Florida legislative session complete, Gov. Charlie Crist has a desk full of bills and an influential legislator in charge of the Republican Party that's analyzing his every move
By Cristina Silva
From every angle, a ban on animal bestiality, long pushed by state prosecutors and animal rights activists, seemed poised to finally become law this year, with Republicans and Democrats in both chambers of the Florida Legislature joining forces to push it through.
Editorial
With the plague of official corruption that has infected Florida in recent years, it's disconcerting that a majority of state legislators couldn't agree on a series of antidotes before their regular session ended last week.
POLITICAL RACES
By George Bennett and Michael C. Bender
The race to define Gov. Charlie Crist's once unlikely independent campaign escalated Wednesday as gambling enthusiasts offered their help while scorned Republicans attempted to drain Crist's hefty campaign account.
By Mike Thomas
The Florida Education Association - the state teachers' union - is running an ad for Charlie Crist. It doesn't mention the Senate race, but it's obvious this is political payback for Charlie vetoing a merit pay bill.
The Associated Press
Twenty prominent Republicans demanded That Gov. Charlie Crist return every penny that some of them gave to his Senate campaign, saying he broke donors' trust when he decided to run as an independent.
By William March and Jose Patino Girona
Trying to unload an oil painting of Gov. Charlie Crist seems to have gotten mired in, well, politics.
By Beth Reinhard
Squeezed out of a U.S. Senate race dominated by political heavyweights, former North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns said Wednesday that he would run for the state Senate instead.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Lisa Marzilli
With Friday's passage of yet a third redistricting amendment, GOP legislators in Tallahassee hope to undermine the will of 1. 7 million Floridians who are demanding fairer elections.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Kate Spinner
Related: Florida is on high alert and preparing defenses
Cannon says Florida drilling 'permanently tabled'
Orlando Sentinel
Haridopolos says opening state to drilling should be dead issue in wake of oil catastrophe in gulf
TC Palm
Gulf oil spill puts a fragile world in peril
Miami Herald
Linked to the Gulf of Mexico by two passes around Shell Island, St. Andrews Bay opens up just inland from the hilly dunes and soft sand of the coast.
By Gina Presson
While workers prepare for the first of the oil from the BP rig spill to reach Florida's beaches later this week, Gov. Charlie Crist, Attorney General Bill McCollum, and BP CFO Alex Sink flew above the slick to get a closer look.
By Kevin Spear
Executives for the oil company trying to plug a well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico provided new details Wednesday of a planned operation so untested they aren't predicting its chances of success.
By Derek Catron
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, a Democrat from New Smyrna Beach, joined her House colleagues Wednesday in introducing legislation that would ensure oil companies are held accountable for paying economic damages resulting from spills.
By Fred Hiers
Progress Energy Florida is asking Florida regulators for permission to cut its customers' nuclear recovery costs next year by 21 percent, reducing the average nuclear cost of $6.99 per month on customer monthly bills down to $5.53.
By Bruce Ritchie
A proposed biomass gas electric plant in Port St. Joe will be delayed by 18 months because of siting difficulties, according to Progress Energy.
By Bruce Ritchie
The Florida Public Service Commission is moving forward with rules to define prohibited "ex parte" communications. Bills to define such prohibited communications in commission failed to win legislative approval.
LGBT
By Steve Rothaus
A nationally known antigay psychologist who testified for the state in its defense of Florida's gay-adoption ban recently took a trip to Europe with a gay male prostitute from Miami who advertised himself online.
EDUCATION
Editorial
To hear Tallahassee tell it, public education was the big winner in this year's legislative session.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Dan Tracy
Millions of dollars already have been made by red-light cameras, and even more money appears to be on the way for governments and private companies that operate the systems at intersections throughout Florida.
By Bill Cotterell
A House member whose district includes thousands of state employees urged Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday to veto "de facto pay cuts" in the state budget.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Scott Finn
State Sen. and GOP-gubernatorial candidate Paula Dockery says a controversial bill requiring an ultrasound before an abortion is "ripe for a governor's veto" - even though she voted for the bill.
By Jim Saunders
Some ideas, such as overhauling the Medicaid system, fizzled publicly. Others faded away quietly in the committee rooms, chambers and offices of the state Capitol, well before the 2010 legislative session ended last week.
By Gina Jordan
The growing needs of Florida's female residents, especially those over age sixty, are the focus of a campaign by two state agencies.
By Carol Gentry
A "huge" number of insurance products being sold in Florida fail to meet spending requirements under the new federal health law, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said at a public hearing in Orlando on Tuesday.
Staff Report
Every day in Florida, six people die of prescription drug overdoses.
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