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By Janet Zink
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For more than an hour they waited for the call.
By Beth Reinhard, Aaron Sharockman and Amy Sherman
Gov. Charlie Crist personally renounced the Republican Party Wednesday, making over his voter registration to "no party affiliation" to match his remodeled U.S. Senate bid and spurning any requests from donors who want their money back.
By Daniel Chang and Jennifer Lebovich
BP engineers will put to the test as early as Thursday an experimental plan to capture crude oil gushing from a ruptured well a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico -- either in the form of a ``top hat'' containment dome or a pipe placed in the leak.
By Paul Flemming
Related: Obama proposes relief for jobs lost to oil spill
Florida's Panhandle on Wednesday boasted of famous sugar-sand beaches, clear Gulf waters and a new international airport set to open.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Jeff Zeleny
The Republican Party selected Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday as the site of its 2012 presidential nominating convention, with the city winning out over Phoenix and Salt Lake City as the place to kick off the party's quest to defeat President Obama.
By Wayne T. Price
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Monday urged leaders in both the private and public sectors to take on the risks associated with big issues and to do a better job making decisions with the future in mind instead of focusing "on the here and now."
By Sean Kinane
Protesters will gather tomorrow in Sarasota and St. Petersburg to ask Governor Charlie Crist to veto a controversial abortion bill passed by the state Legislature.
By Ray Reyes
A weeklong eBay auction for a portrait of Gov. Charlie Crist ended this morning with a flurry of bids that went down to the last second.
By Lise Fisher
Marijuana - legalizing it, making it available for patients, reducing penalties involving it - is on the minds of legislators around the country.
By Joy-Ann Reid
To hear the pundits tell it, there's a debate raging across America over whether our government is too big.
POLITICAL RACES
By Jeremy Wallace
It is not just Florida's U.S. Senate race that has been turned upside down in the past 30 days.
By Howard Altman
The leaders are thrilled, those trailing are encouraged and everyone says it is way too early to put too much stock in the first polling data released on the state's cabinet races.
By Paul Flemming
Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda's 2009 vote in favor of drilling in Florida waters was already the key reason Rick Minor challenged her in the Democratic primary.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Peter Gaddy
Carl Hiaasen, as investigative journalist, editorialist, and novelist, has chronicled the destruction of Florida's natural beauty by a genre of greedy businessmen and crooked politicians.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Henry Fountain and Matthew L. Wald
After days of deepening gloom, BP and two Obama administration officials suggested on Wednesday that the company was closer to a solution that might halt the seemingly uncontrollable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Craig Pittman
Everyone agrees that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is a disaster for the Gulf of Mexico. But now fishing industry groups and Louisiana officials are wondering if chemical dispersants being used to limit the spill may lead to a more long-lasting disaster.
By Kevin Spear
The nation's most notorious oil spill from an offshore rig occurred 41 years ago near Santa Barbara, Calif., triggering seismic changes in attitudes in that state and nationwide about drilling, and spurring landmark environmental laws.
By Bruce Ritchie
Federal officials on Wednesday defended the use of chemical dispersants to battle the huge oil spill off the Louisiana coast.
By Gina Presson
In an effort to protect Florida businesses hurt by BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gov. Crist signed an emergency order Wednesday to cut red tape for local governments providing relief, and he asked the Small Business Administration to provide low-interest loans.
The Progress Report
More than three weeks have passed since BP's "safe" Deepwater Horizon exploratory rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers and unleashing an undersea torrent of oil.
Editorial
The sorry spectacle in Washington this week of three companies blaming each other for the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion illustrates why government must be vigorous and vigilant in this disaster.
LGBT
Staff Report
The anti-gay rights activist who recently toured Europe with a male escort has resigned from a group that promotes counseling for people who "struggle with unwanted homosexuality," though the man insists that he is not gay.
Our take on: Bill McCollum's "expert" witness George Rekers
Orlando Sentinel
EDUCATION
By Dave Weber
Kids who show up at certain Seminole County schools next fall may be told there is no room and they must go elsewhere.
Editorial
To hear Tallahassee tell it, public education was the big winner in this year's legislative session.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Bill Kaczor
Gov. Charlie Crist asked BP PLC on Wednesday to pay nearly $35 million for an emergency ad campaign to assure the world that Florida's beaches and coastal waters are untainted by the company's Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
By Derek Catron
Back when government coffers were flush, the spring legislative session could seem like Christmas, with lawmakers delivering packages of goodies to their home districts.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jim Saunders
With state lawmakers taking aim at federal health reform, fewer than half of Florida voters support a ballot proposal that would seek to prevent residents from being required to buy health insurance, a new poll indicates.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Nathan Crabbe
A lack of funding for the judiciary and rising court fees are among problems that are limiting access to the legal system for the poor, University of Florida graduate and incoming American Bar Association President Stephen Zack said Wednesday.
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