PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Mark K. Matthews
Excerpt: "I think the polling is showing a seismic shift among Floridians," said Mark Ferrulo, executive director of Progress Florida and a longtime drilling opponent. "The potential economic disaster we are looking at in Florida is really going to change the politics of the issue."
By Jeremy Wallace
Excerpt: "As this disaster plays out, the polling numbers will continue to shift dramatically," said Mark Ferrulo, executive director of Progress Florida, a nonprofit group opposed to drilling.
FEATURED STORIES
By Gary Fineout
Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday set up a possible legal showdown with state lawmakers after he freely used his veto pen to cut millions in projects and to eliminate budget mandates contained in the state's new spending plan.
By Clifford Krauss
Related: Louisianan Becomes Face of Anger on Spill
'Flotels' await oil spill cleanup workers on Gulf
Palm Beach Post
The 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes, resembling oversized white shipping containers, are stacked two high and three wide atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the oil industry's hub on the Gulf of Mexico.
By Scott Finn
Shortly before the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf, the Florida House spent $200,000 for a study of oil drilling off Florida's coast which said any spills would be rare, small and easily contained.
By Lucy Morgan and Adam C. Smith
Gov. Charlie Crist often laments "this culture of corruption in South Florida," but increasingly it's Tallahassee that looks like a central focus of multiple criminal investigations swirling about Florida.
Editorial
A recent statewide poll has confirmed what many Floridians already knew: The state's Republican-led Legislature is out of synch with voters, including most of those in its own party.
EDITORIAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
Miami Herald
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Aaron Deslatte and Josh Hafenbrack
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist pulled out his line-item-veto pen for the last time Friday to slash $372 million from the state's budget, gutting projects dear to his fiercest critics in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
By Gary Fineout
Gov. Charlie Crist's running battle with the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature appears unlikely to end anytime soon -- although the governor is now backing off plans to call lawmakers back to town in the next month.
By Marc Caputo
Shadowy groups that attack first and disclose their big-money donors after an election won't be able to be so secretive now that Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a law that broadens state regulation of campaign committees.
By Scott Maxwell
If Orange County Commissioner Mildred Fernández is guilty of the bribery charges she's facing, she deserves to be punished -- not just for doing wrong, but for being stupid.
The Associated Press
Three bills recognizing service by U.S. military veterans are now law with signatures from Gov. Charlie Crist.
By Brent Kallestad
The state's Division of Emergency Management, under a second director since Craig Fugate left a year ago to run its federal counterpart, is getting a jump start on the hurricane season.
The Associated Press
A state panel is narrowing a field of 60 applicants for two seats on the Florida Public Service Commission.
By Paul Pinkham
Two high-profile statewide officeholders lent their support this weekend to a former Live Oak prosecutor fired for speaking to tea party gatherings.
Editorial
Florida Republicans are twisting themselves into pretzels over Arizona's extreme effort to crack down on illegal immigrants.
POLITICAL RACES
By William March
Related: Ads hint McCollum is worried about rival
Can the man who ran the company that committed the biggest Medicare fraud in history get elected governor in a state full of retirees?
By Adam C. Smith
Related: Thrasher 'neutral' in clash of GOP candidates for Florida governor
Crist helps McCollum's campaign
Orlando Sentinel
Crist's centrist strategy working
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Analysis: With Crist aside, Rubio can start moving to the middle
Orlando Sentinel
The progress of a 'people' person
St. Petersburg Times
Florida flip-flops rev up the Flip-O-Meter
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Politifact
Gov. Charlie Crist said he would run for the U.S. Senate only as a Republican.
By Tony Holt
Local Democrats showed up Saturday afternoon to meet their frontrunner for the U.S. Senate.
Leading the Florida Attorney General's race: 'Undecided'
Tampa Tribune
Prosecutor Bondi leaves the courthouse and takes a hard right
St. Petersburg Times
Party-changer takes on Thrasher
Florida Times-Union
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Greg Allen
After a century of near-relentless building by developers, voters in Florida will decide whether they want a direct role in determining who builds and where.
By Lesley Blackner
This Memorial Day, we pause to thank our military, who defend our great country.
By Howard Troxler
There are nine proposed amendments to our state Constitution on this November's ballot.
By Catherine Whittenburg
Three ballot questions. Two lawsuits (and counting). One serious headache for voters.
Editorial
It seems the only people in Florida who understand what the proposed Amendment 7 says and means, and are not wholly offended by it, are those who voted to put it on the November ballot: the Republican majority in the Florida Legislature.
Editorial
It was bad enough when legislative leaders Dean Cannon and Mike Haridopolos chose to fight two citizen initiatives that could end the miserable practice of gerrymandering.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Jeffrey Kluger
The WeatherBird II is not a pretty ship. A boxy, businesslike, 194-ton vessel, it prowls the waters off St Petersburg, Fla. where it competes for attention with the cruise ships and sport yachts and other glamour boats.
By Bruce Ritchie
Researchers are concerned that a sub-surface plume of oil could threaten Florida's coast for months even if BP is successful in capping a gushing oil well.
By Gina Presson
Conservation groups want to get to the bottom of the chemicals being poured into the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to break up the oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
By Steve Bousquet and Lee Logan
The shucked oysters and grouper sandwiches were flying out of the kitchen Sunday at Pompano Joe's, an oceanside restaurant popular with Gulf Coast tourists.
By Mona Moore
Tourists covered the beaches Sunday morning as Gov. Charlie Crist made arrangements to keep it that way.
By Jim Ash
With Louisiana's shoreline turning blacker by the day, an elite team of two former attorneys general is cautiously laying the groundwork for Florida's legal response to BP's massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Ecology should trump economic growth
Washington Post
Florida takes giant step with huge solar-power plant
Orlando Sentinel
BP crisis exposes chink in government's regulatory armor
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
LGBT
By Lesley Clark
Gov. Charlie Crist's U.S. Senate rivals skewered him Friday for saying he'd now support repealing the policy that bars openly gay people from serving in the military -- a reversal from what he told reporters on Monday.
House Passes Bill With 'Don't Tell' Repeal
New York Times
South Florida city will define 'family' with gay rights in mind
Palm Beach Post
EDUCATION
By Leslie Postal
Florida will try again for a coveted Race to the Top federal education grant Tuesday -- this time with the blessing of its teachers' unions.
By Jac Wilder Versteeg
Teachers are demanding a raise at the worst possible time.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
The Associated Press
High unemployment isn't going away.
By Todd Ruger
An attempt to fix the sloppy legal work plaguing thousands of foreclosure cases in Florida has been ineffective, and has now caused a legal mess of its own.
By Bill Kaczor
A wide-ranging $175 million "Jobs for Florida" bill that includes grants and tax incentives for businesses as well as spending to boost Florida's sagging space industry became law Friday with Gov. Charlie Crist's signature.
By Bill Cotterell
Gov. Charlie Crist refused Friday to slash interest earnings on government-employee pensions in the Deferred Retirement Option Program, saying lawmakers unfairly popped the change into the budget late in the session.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
Florida's uninsured residents may be one of the big beneficiaries of the expansion of Medicaid under the new federal health care law, according to a new report from a national health care organization.
By Travis Pillow
A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation suggests that health care reform could be a bargain for states, bringing in billions of dollars in new federal funding to help cover people who cannot afford health insurance.
By Randy Schultz
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, his lawsuit to nullify the federal health care law is about freedom.
By Bob LaMendola
Starting Tuesday, seniors have fresh new options to lower the monthly premiums on Medigap health policies.
By Sally Kestin
People who care for children, the elderly and disabled in Florida will undergo stricter background screening requirements under a new law that takes effect Aug. 1.
Staff Report
For only the second time in the nearly 25-year history of the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program, no new people will be eligible for help.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Brian Wilkins
Related editorial: The honored dead
Fla. Lawmaker Will Snyder Wants Arizona-Style Law
News Service of Florida
Fringe politics in Arizona could pay off for Florida
Palm Beach Post
Black organizations choose Broward for big meetings
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
More on anti-Muslim tensions in Jacksonville
Florida Independent
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Curt Anderson
Former NFL star Warren Sapp, some of America's biggest banks and tax collectors from Florida to Rhode Island are laying claim to a piece of the collapsed empire of disbarred lawyer Scott Rothstein, who is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to operating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.
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