FEATURED STORIES
By William March
Alex Sink may be hoping to boost in her campaign for governor by naming a running mate early, and speculation among her backers is focusing on former state Sen. Rod Smith.
By Adam C. Smith
George W. Bush and Karl Rove showed the power of old-fashioned, shoe leather campaigning in 2004 with an army of volunteer door knockers and phone bankers.
By Bart Jansen
Related: Escambia Co. continues to bear brunt of spill in Florida
Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore
The Associated Press
Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water off Florida beaches, like forest animals fleeing a fire.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Steve Bousquet
Former House Speaker Ray Sansom and two co-defendants returned to state court Wednesday hoping to persuade a judge to drop felony charges of grand theft and conspiracy to commit grand theft, and avoid the spectacle of a trial.
By Bill Cotterell
An attorney for former House Speaker Ray Sansom told a judge Wednesday the once-powerful lawmaker "has been besmirched and attacked" for trying to protect his coastal constituents from killer hurricanes.
By Scott Hiaasen
Federal prosecutors have added five criminal tax charges to the indictment of Dr. Alan Mendelsohn, a Broward County eye doctor and political power broker.
By Virginia Chamlee
Attorney Scott Rothstein's high-profile Ponzi scheme, in which the Fort Lauderdale-based lawyer defrauded investors of nearly $1.2 billion, made national headlines for a number of reasons.
By Robert Napper
The firing of the top administrator for Florida's fourth-largest county yesterday brought to the forefront growing concern in the state over huge severance and retirement packages for high-ranking government officials established during stronger economic times -- perks that are now proving to be a drain on cash-strapped budgets.
POLITICAL RACES
By Gary Fineout
Millions of dollars have already been spent during Florida's wild election season and tens of millions will likely be spent between now and November.
The Associated Press
A Republican no longer, Gov. Charlie Crist just can't seem to get enough of President Barack Obama or Democratic priorities.
By Jeremy Wallace
With globs of oil tarring the beaches of northwest Florida, three of the four major candidates running for the U.S. Senate are calling for a permanent ban on oil drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast.
By Jonathan Foerster, Ryan Mills, Leslie William Hale
Wearing a light blue shirt and red tie, Rick Scott sat comfortably behind the microphone of a conservative-leaning Jacksonville radio station in early June and hashed through the issues in the upcoming race for governor.
By Aaron Deslatte
Immigration has become a singular focus in the media strategies of the two Republican candidates for governor.
By John Kennedy
House Speaker-designate Dean Cannon has placed a $150,000 bet on what may be a long shot in the race for governor - fellow Republican Bill McCollum.
By Cristina Silva
With his multimillions and meteoric rise to front-runner status in the Republican gubernatorial primary, former Columbia/HCA hospital CEO Rick Scott has become a formidable figure in Florida politics.
By Jim Ash
Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink made it official Wednesday, filing papers with the Secretary of State to become an official Democratic candidate for governor.
By Lee Logan
Independent gubernatorial candidate Lawton "Bud" Chiles III is a defendant in seven lawsuits stemming from a construction business currently in bankruptcy and a foreclosed condo development.
The Associated Press
Candidates for Florida governor are scheduled to talk to Florida newspaper editors in a town-hall style meeting in Sarasota.
Will Florida Voters Get What They Want Most in Their Leaders?
Sayfie Review
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Rebecca Eagan
In 1792, Thomas Paine wrote in Rights of Man: "There is ... no power but the voluntary will of the people that has the right to act in any matter respecting general reform."
Daytona Beach News-Journal
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Alex Leary
Sen. Mary Landrieu felt an ugly sense of deja vu. Her home state, Louisiana, was experiencing a catastrophe and the president was slowly and clumsily responding.
By Cristina Silva
In the early weeks of the oil spill disaster, Ian MacDonald watched in horror as the slick spread across the Gulf of Mexico.
By Laura Figueroa
In Okaloosa County, where the biggest threat used to be the occasional hurricane warning, county commissioners declared themselves ready to go to jail to ensure their pristine beaches and bays are protected.
The Progress Report
Last night was President Obama's first Oval Office address, and he used the weighty occasion to address the nation's concerns about what is happening on the Gulf Coast, 57 days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
By Brett Ader
Lawton "Bud" Chiles III issued a press release Monday calling on President Obama to consider urging BP to offer paying citizens for the oil they recover from the Gulf Coast, essentially creating what he calls a "bounty" that would spur thousands to join the cleanup effort.
By Gina Presson
Calling it the high price of cheap oil, a panel of experts at the recent "Gulf Oil Spill: From Crisis to Solutions" public forum talked about the damages from the Deepwater Horizon Spill and the need to find new alternatives to fossil fuel.
By Robert Lorei
Now we'll hear from Susan Cerulean who is the editor of a collection of essays written by prominent Florida journalists, novelists and poets.
The Associated Press
Many familiars names are applying for two more Public Service Commission openings.
LGBT
By Mitch Perry
Last August, the Third District Court of Appeals heard arguments from the state of Florida and attorneys for Martin Gill last fall on the state's ban on gay adoption, which a Miami-Dade County Judge ruled in November of 2008 was unconstitutional. The state appealed that decision and the appeal was heard last August.
EDUCATION
By Brandon Larrabee
State officials hope increased support from the teachers unions will boost the chance for $700 million over four years in federal funding for education reform efforts.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Carlton Proctor
To make up for droves of tourists canceling beach reservations, Pensacola area politicians and tourism officials are leaning on BP to send its workers and subcontractors to the hotels and condominiums most impacted by the spill
By Douglas Hanks
South Florida has suffered more during the recession than almost any other place in the country, according to a new study.
By Tristram Korten
Police waded through a crowd chanting "Shame! Shame!" and "The banks got a bailout! The people got sold out!" to evict three families from a low-income apartment complex in Miami's Liberty City yesterday.
By Mimi Whitefield
After a dismal 2009 -- a year those in international business say they'd prefer to forget -- trade through South Florida ports is showing double-digit growth in 2010 as the economies of Latin American trading partners revive.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Mike Lillis
Independent federal investigators hoping to rein in Medicare fraud are asking Congress for broad new authority to boot offending corporate executives from the insurance program.
By Carol Gentry
A Florida company that claims its joint-pain remedy "helps relieve bursitis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, fibromyalgia, and any other other form of arthritis" is violating the law, the Food and Drug Administration warns.
Editorial
The phrase "protecting our most vulnerable citizens" often evokes images of children who need protection from neglectful parents or predators outside the home.
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