FEATURED STORIES
By Dara Kam
Related: Poll: Floridians change minds on Gulf drilling; majority now opposed
Task force hears complaints about BP's oil spill response
Tallahassee Democrat
A high-level task force of lawmakers, agency heads, local officials and industry representatives met for the first time Wednesday to begin charting Florida's recovery from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
By Lee Logan
Five weeks after bailing on the Republican Party to run as an independent, Gov. Charlie Crist leads the three-way race for the Senate in a new Quinnipiac University poll of Florida voters, while both of the Republican contenders for governor lead likely Democratic nominee Alex Sink.
Editorial
Abortion-rights opponents have spent weeks pressuring Gov. Charlie Crist to sign legislation that would require all women seeking a first trimester abortion to submit to an ultrasound.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By The Associated Press
Some advocates are calling for Florida legislators to allow tax appraisers to lower Gulf Coast property values immediately because of the BP oil spill.
By Carrie Wells
More than half of the nation's young Hispanic voters do not identify themselves as liberal or conservative, though almost three in four say Democratic President Barack Obama is doing a good job, a poll released Wednesday shows.
POLITICAL RACES
By Kathleen Haughney
A three-way gubernatorial contest could doom state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink's chances to win the governor's race, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
The Associated Press
A poll released Thursday shows Naples millionaire businessman Rick Scott leading Attorney General Bill McCollum in the race for the Republican nomination for governor.
By Kendrick Meek
Mike Thomas is no fan of Democrats. His strong biases are often on display.
By George Bennett
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Maurice Ferre says the U.S. spends an "absurd" amount on end-of-life care and should gradually move to a universal health system in which the government controls costs by setting prices for medical procedures and capping expenditures based on age and medical condition.
By David Hunt
Holly Benson, a former state legislator who's running for state attorney general, is structuring her Republican primary race around the state's lawsuit to block federal health care reform.
By Joy-Ann Reid
From Arkansas to California, Tuesday's primaries could hold lessons for Florida.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Scott Wyman
As powerful business executives gathered Wednesday at a posh downtown restaurant to raise money to fight a ballot initiative that requires public votes on development, slow-growth activists picketed outside.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Susan Miller Degnan
Related: BP weighing hundreds of oil spill options
By Jim Waymer
Florida Today
Utilities have talked to Public Service Commission nominees
Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times
Decision Today on EPA Greenhouse Gas Jurisdiction
Public News Service Florida
Editorial
Gainesville Sun
BP should come clean about threat
Tampa Tribune
Editorial
Florida Today
EDUCATION
By Leslie Postal
The testing company responsible for the delayed release of this year's FCAT scores has a history of problems -- in Florida and across the country.
By Howard Troxler
St. Petersburg Times
Florida public universities to raise tuition costs
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Florida universities push for $100 million research grant from BP
St. Petersburg Times
School tests failing stress test: FCAT grading problems offer one example
Palm Beach Post
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
The Associated Press
Property appraisers from three Panhandle counties and a state representative say the Legislature should allow tax appraisers to lower coastal property values immediately because of the oil spill.
By Jim Stratton
After more than a year of decline, Central Florida's economic indicators appear to be slowly shifting direction, although signs of a turnaround remain spotty and anemic.
By Tom Bayles
Foreclosures leveled off during May in Southwest Florida, the third consecutive month that the total number of filings has declined.
By Gabrielle Sena and Steve Newborn
The Southwest Florida Water Management District is proposing a cap on how much water farmers can use to protect their crops from freezing.
By Larry Hannan
Ellis White remembers the day his 2-year-old granddaughter asked him why he didn't drive.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
The Progress Report
Yesterday, President Obama sought to sell the health overhaul law to skeptical seniors, "launching a defense of his presidency's biggest accomplishment" as the government prepared to release "the first batch of $250 checks to seniors who fall into Medicare's prescription drug coverage gap, known as the 'doughnut hole.'"
By Aaron Sharockman
Lawton "Bud" Chiles III, son of the late Gov. Lawton Chiles, announced his independent run for governor on June 3, 2010, by saying he'd be a voice for those who traditionally have been cut out of the democratic process.
By Gary Fineout
A fierce battle has broken out over who should be in control of the state's multi-million campaign to keep teenagers from smoking.
Editorial
It's bad enough that the ultrasound bill Gov. Charlie Crist wisely appears poised to veto would strong-arm and pick the pocket of women seeking their constitutional right to an abortion.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Kate Bradshaw
Today demonstrators in three Florida cities urged US Senator George LeMieux to cosponsor the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM Act.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Fred Grimm
Related: How Scott Rothstein gambled -- and lost
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