PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Whitney Ray
Excerpt: Progress Florida was one of the groups calling for a veto. Political Director Damien Filer says the bill would have put politics in the doctor's office. "What it would have done is insert politics and politicians into the exam room, in-between women and their doctors, exactly where they don't belong."
By Zanna B.
Spill Baby Spill is a new website created by Progress Florida to help ensure no new oil rigs will be built off the state of Florida.
FEATURED STORIES
By Lee Logan and John Frank
Gov. Charlie Crist rejected a controversial abortion bill Friday, using his veto pen to repudiate the conservative Republicans who elected him and championed the legislation as "the most significant pro-life measure in Florida's history."
The Associated Press
Related: Along Gulf coast highway, anxiety spreads with oil
As the White House pressured oil giant BP to step up its response to the Deepwater Horizon spill, including faster payment of damage claims and more aggressive plans to contain the crude gushing undersea, the federal government's point man on the crisis said he still doesn't know how much oil is spewing from the broken well.
By Damien Cave
When rigs first started drilling for oil off Louisiana's coast in the 1940s, Floridians scanned their shoreline, with its resorts and talcum-white beaches, and said, No thanks. Go ahead and drill, they told other Gulf Coast states; we'll stick with tourism.
By Patricia Mazzei
Related: What Florida politicians say about offshore oil drilling
Big money drowns out other voices
St. Petersburg Times
EDITORIAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
By Andy Marlette
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Rene Stutzman
Former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer on Friday asked a Sanford judge to put a temporary hold on his lawsuit against the party and its new chairman while he battles criminal charges.
By Howard Troxler
Last week the voters of California took a radical step and more or less abolished party primary elections.
POLITICAL RACES
By Adam C. Smith
Back in 2002, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride hurt himself by constantly refusing to say how he intended to pay for the class-size reduction mandate being pushed by then-state Sen. Kendrick Meek.
By Bill Cotterell
Political insurgent Rick Scott may or may not be the new frontrunner in the Republican race for governor, but he's quick to capitalize on the poll-driven perception that he has leapfrogged past Attorney General Bill McCollum.
By Steve Bousquet
Rick Scott has been running for governor only two months, and nearly half of Republicans in a new poll say they'd vote for him.
By Jim Saunders
Rick Scott carries baggage from a massive health-fraud case and offers little political experience.
By David Hunt
If GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott wasn't responsible for the fraud investigation that netted his former company, Columbia/HCA, a $1.7 billion fine, who was?
By Brendan Farrington
Rick Scott was killing time in a general store before a campaign speech Saturday when he introduced himself to the clerk behind the counter.
By Derek Catron
Florida's next governor needs to shore up agriculture and tourism in the state while creating a climate that will attract new business, Bill McCollum said Friday in a pair of local appearances.
By Lee Logan
Forty years after his little-known father used a pair of boots to launch himself into political folklore, Lawton "Bud" Chiles III hopes to emulate the strategy during his independent run for governor by walking across Florida and connecting with voters.
By Ben Smith
CNBC's Larry Kudlow pressed Marco Rubio hard and repeatedly today on the question of offshore drilling, prompting the candidate's reluctant confirmation that he opposes a moratorium on offshore drilling, opposes forcing BP to stop paying dividends to shareholders, and supports continued drilling off Florida's coasts in the long run -- an issue that seems to offer Charlie Crist his clearest shot at victory in the Senate race.
By Mark Schlueb
In less than two years, freshman Democrat U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has built a national reputation as a bare-knuckle brawler whom conservatives love to hate, an unapologetic supporter of health-care reform and government regulation.
By Bill Cotterell
In any other year, a bland 14-year congressman with plenty of campaign cash and a winning track record in a politically safe district would not have to work hard for re-election.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Scott Maxwell
Politics is full of lies. However, rarely is a lie so provably debunked as the one that opponents of Fair Districts are spreading.
By Marcos Restrepo
The fight to defeat Amendment 4 -- which would change the Florida Constitution by requiring voter approval of changes to local comprehensive plans -- has picked up more high-profile funders.
By Fred Grimm
Power boys do love YOLO, Fort Lauderdale's slickest pickup joint, where they can valet their Italian sports cars, order Cristal and make believe that pretty girls in tiny dresses are oblivious to pot bellies, thinning hair and acute Viagra dependency.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Zac Anderson
Related: Sen. Nelson offers ideas for oil spill
Can any amount of money make oil spill victims whole?
St. Petersburg Times
By Suzanna Mars
Gainesville Sun
With each look at oil flow, the numbers get worse
The Associated Press
BP Gives Researchers Only 10 Percent of Funding Request
WUSF Public Radio Tampa
Oil Spill Points to Need for Alternative Energy
Public News Service Florida
The Progress Report
Think Progress
Tight pollution limits proposed for canals
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Debate over Gainesville biomass plant highlights Florida's renewable energy challenges
Florida Independent
Editorial
St. Petersburg Times
Editorial
St. Petersburg Times
LGBT
Editorial
With the constant specter of the oil spill hovering off our beaches, we need comedic relief.
EDUCATION
By Iricka Berlinger
Florida school boards and superintendents are preparing a lawsuit to block legislation allowing charter schools to be exempt from class-size requirements.
State sends extra help for high schools
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
UF offers raises for faculty, staff, graduate assistants
Gainesville Sun
FCAT testing contractor gets an 'F'
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
The Associated Press
U.S. Census estimates say Florida's population growth rate is continuing to decline.
By Mona Moore
At this time last year, Niceville resident Walter Hicks was shrimping somewhere between the mouth of the Mississippi and Mobile Bay.
By Paige St. John
Florida regulators have agreed to allow a once-troubled property insurer to enter hurricane season prepared not for a big hurricane, but multiple smaller ones.
By Dan Tracy
Orlando's planned high-speed train could create an economic boon worth billions of dollars for the region, according to a study sponsored by an international conglomerate that will bid on building the system.
By Anthony Man
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, has jumped into a debate with financial implications for the banking industry.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Bill Cotterell
Tallahassee Democrat
WellCare won't disclose political $
Health News Florida
In Florida, a Lifeline to Patients With TB
New York Times
Satellite Beach cracks down on 'pill mills'
Florida Today
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Bart Jansen
Rep. Connie Mack IV is picking fights with fellow Republicans over immigration policy, stirring a political hornet's nest that observers say might signal an interest in higher office.
By Mark Harper
Two Florida men are fighting the perception that the tea-party movement is racist by leading an organization whose name is a takeoff on the NAACP.
By Lashonda Stinson Curry
Kermit and Cindy Clark were newlyweds when they moved into their first home in Denver in 1969.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Rene Stutzman
It was 2003, and this is how it started in Florida: Sheila Meehan had dozens of boxes stacked in her Tallahassee garage filled with letters and legal paperwork from hundreds of Florida inmates who claimed they were innocent and that DNA tests would prove it.
Editorial
Sprinkled throughout the U.S. Constitution is the notion that accused criminals are to be treated fairly and justly.
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