FEATURED STORIES
By Michael C. Bender
Related: Meek and Greene on the issues - and each other
The top two Democrats running for U.S. Senate offered few prospective policy differences during their first debate today, choosing instead to level each other with insults and accusations.
By Gina Presson
"Hands Across the Sand" began in Florida as a warning about the dangers of offshore oil drilling even before the Gulf of Mexico disaster, and this Saturday, post-disaster, it goes international.
By Paul Flemming
Related: Activist threatening court action against DEP to demand it take a harder stance against BP
Oil drilling ban a legal face-off
Miami Herald
Related: Gulf oil spill puts unemployed to work on cleanup
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Matt Bai
For months now, Jeb Bush has been listening as President Obama blasts his older brother's administration for the battered economy, budget deficits and even the lax oversight of oil wells.
The Associated Press
Gov. Charlie Crist will sign House BIll 971 into law Tuesday.
POLITICAL RACES
By Beth Reinhard and Adam C. Smith
You know a campaign is getting down and dirty when one candidate tells his opponent to quit insulting his mother.
By William March
This election year is seeing a dramatic rise in millionaire, self-funding political candidates, and Florida is one of the centers of the action.
By Tristram Korten
In Florida politics, it's the season of the deep-pocketed, self-funded candidate.
By Jeremy Wallace
It was a group rarely, if ever, seen together on Florida's political money trail.
By Chad Smith
In a quick campaign stop at a Gainesville restaurant Tuesday, Marco Rubio told reporters that Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to veto $9.7 million from the state budget for Shands at the University of Florida to treat the uninsured "makes no sense."
By Lee Logan and Steve Bousquet
Lawton "Bud" Chiles III has been an independent candidate for governor for only a few weeks, but some longtime friends and associates already are trying to persuade him to drop out.
By Beth Burger
"Some people don't even know I'm a woman yet," joked the gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink to an upstairs room filled with about 50 people at Mattison's Riverside on Tuesday evening.
By Bill Cotterell
State Attorney Willie Meggs declined to prosecute anyone Tuesday in the weekend camera-snatching incident at state Sen. Al Lawson's campaign headquarters, so the Tallahassee lawmaker's congressional campaign took the case to a higher court: YouTube.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Bruce Ritchie
Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday asked BP for claims information submitted as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill while other state and local officials expressed frustration with the company.
By Virginia Chamlee
In the wake of the gulf oil spill, President Obama has been criticized for failing to temporarily waive the Jones Act, which governs the use of foreign vessels in American waters.
By Jennifer Sorentrue
Palm Beach County commissioners on Thursday will consider a year-long moratorium on rock-mining in the Everglades Agricultural Area, to give staff time to craft long-term restrictions.
By David Damron
A tie vote Tuesday night killed a controversial proposal to build 6,343 residences in the sensitive Econlockhatchee River region, closing a chapter on one of the most heated growth battles Orange County has seen.
Editorial
U.S. District Judge Martin L. C. Feldman's decision Tuesday to overturn the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is indefensible.
LGBT
By Mitch Perry
The Sunshine State ranks in the bottom half of the country on various critical indexes, such as education spending (36th nationally), uninsured children (49th as of a year ago) and juvenile incarceration rates (48th, meaning we jail more juveniles than 47 other states).
By Sen. Nan Rich
I applaud Florida's Chief Child Advocate Jim Kallinger's suggestion to "Celebrate Father's Day by adopting A child" (Sun Sentinel, June 17), as well as Gov. Crist's ongoing efforts to encourage Florida families to consider adopting a foster child.
EDUCATION
By Natalie Neysa Alund
When G.D. Rogers Elementary got its first Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test reading score back last month, Manatee County School District leaders knew something needed to change.
By Hannah Sampson
In an effort to meet the strict new phase of a law that governs class sizes, Broward school district officials are planning to combine classes, ask teachers to take on extra periods and steer students to the Internet.
Editorial
South Floridians are bombarded with statistics, but here's one that should garner some real attention: Florida is one of 10 states where the minority-majority child population has increased.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Gina Presson
Summer jobs have been scarce for students. In Florida, however, federal stimulus funds are enabling some low-income students to work this summer - in real jobs with real paychecks, learning real-life lessons.
By Anthony Cormier
For years, Florida municipalities routinely dominated the list of the Census Bureau's fastest-growing U.S. cities.
Editorial
Lobbyists are frantically trying to persuade congressional negotiators to carve out more exemptions in a financial reform bill that already has been significantly weakened.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Carol Gentry
Most health policies that cover small groups and individuals in Florida - including the state's own Cover Florida plan - likely will flunk federal requirements that take effect in September, the governor's office says.
By Susan Jenks
As President Obama unveiled a package of consumer benefits Tuesday to build support for his health care overhaul, local health care professionals generally praised the move although some expressed concerns about the cost.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Tiffany Lewis
As the Obama Administration prepares to roll out a plan to end homelessness among veterans, the state of Florida is trying to ensure that vets get all the services they deserve.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
The Progress Report
Next week, as the Senate begins hearings to confirm his successor, Justice John Paul Stevens will take his seat at the Supreme Court's bench for the last time.
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