PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Mark Ferrulo and David Donnelly
Instead of protecting the interests of Big Oil and Pharma, it's time we had a government that worked for working Americans, not big corporations and their lobbyists.
FEATURED STORIES
By Tim Padgett
To their critics, Rick Scott and Jeff Greene are poster boys for two of America's biggest problems: our health care and financial systems.
By John Frank
Attorney General Bill McCollum continues to distance himself from two shadowy political committees attacking his GOP primary opponent, but new evidence is surfacing to connect his campaign to the groups.
By Beth Reinhard
Kendrick Meek repeatedly derides his U.S. Senate rival as a carpetbagging billionaire trying to buy the election. Jeff Greene counters that Meek is a do-nothing career politician.
The Associated Press
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It looks dirty and muddy, a brown mass of weeds with gas-filled berries that allow it to float on the Gulf of Mexico's waters.
By Bill Cotterell
Related: Oil to keep hitting beaches through Wednesday, concentrated at Destin
Gov. Charlie Crist and state emergency officials said Monday winds and sea currents should move the Gulf oil spill away from Florida in the next few days.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Travis Pillow
The eclectic mix of conservative groups that make up the tea party movement -- and their universal disdain for the political party that shares its name -- was on display at a rally in downtown Orlando this weekend.
POLITICAL RACES
By Marc A. Thiessen
Can Charlie Crist accomplish in Florida what Arlen Specter failed to do in Pennsylvania -- woo Democrats to his cause after bolting the GOP to avoid a tough primary?
By John Koenig
Bill McCollum wants to cut state taxes on businesses. Rick Scott does, too.
By Michael C. Bender
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene, a real estate tycoon trumpeting his status as a political "outsider," announced Monday his first endorsement from an elected official in Florida.
By Aaron Deslatte
Christopher Crawford is a 22-year-old from Orlando whose only reported assets are a 1991 Acura Integra worth $2,000 and an IKEA couch.
By Tosha Sketo
While incumbent Allen Boyd has raised more than $1 million relying heavily on political action committees, his challengers on both sides of the aisle are shunning the "political machine" in favor of individual contributions.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By John Leland
Related: Cold, Dark and Teeming With Life
Panel Is Unlikely to End Deepwater Drilling Ban Early
New York Times
Three of Florida's biggest law firms chosen to defend BP, others
Florida Independent
Florida has 20 oil skimmers, needs 100
FloridaEnvironments.com
Report undercuts Rubio claims about offshore drilling
Florida Independent
By Paul Flemming
Pensacola News Journal
"Towel Aid" for Oiled Birds in Gulf
Public News Service Florida
The Progress Report
Think Progress
Rep. Buchanan touts drilling legislation
Bradenton Herald
EDUCATION
By Nancy Detert
Monday I attended a one-day forum in Washington, D.C., at the request of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Kris Hundley
Chasing bigger investment returns, the agency that manages Florida's $113.8 billion public pension fund wants to make far riskier investment bets.
By Todd Halvorson
Legendary astronaut John Glenn says the nation should keep flying U.S. shuttles rather than paying Russia to launch Americans to the International Space Station.
By Rachael Jackson
When SunRail trains start pulling into stations in 2013, cities across Central Florida are hoping riders step off the train to visit their shops and restaurants -- and maybe even move into new pedestrian communities built around rail stops.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
The Associated Press
After a week of partisan wrangling, the Senate on Friday passed legislation to spare doctors a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments looming for months. But the last-ditch effort came too late.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Marcos Restrepo
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution defines citizenship this way: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Louis Cooper
In May, Crist decided not to replace Escambia County Judge David Ackerman, who stepped down last month, because Ackerman plans to return to work in February.
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