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Hands Across the Sand event at Spa Beach in downtown St. Petersburg - one of hundreds of events around the world on June 26th saying no to new offshore oil drilling and yes to a clean energy future. How was your "Hands" event?
FEATURED STORIES
By Daniel Chang and David Ovalle
Related AP story: Florida braces for oil shift from tropical storm
Related AP story: Oil spill's psychological toll quietly mounts
Drilling protesters join hands on oiled Fla. beach
The Associated Press
By Gary Fineout
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Florida hospitals' role in the ripoff
Miami Herald
EDITORIAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
Miami Herald
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Aaron Deslatte
Remember that early-summer drumbeat for a special lawmaking session to pass a constitutional ban on oil drilling?
By Josh Hafenbrack
A raft of new rules enacted by lawmakers and signed by Gov. Charlie Crist will affect nearly everyone - college students, teachers and parents, motorists and even horse owners.
POLITICAL RACES
By Andrew Abramson
Alex Sink delivered a simple message Friday to the heart of Palm Beach County's liberal condo belt: Support her campaign for governor or watch Florida become one of the most conservative states in the country.
By Steve Bousquet
Attorney General Bill McCollum, in a dogfight with newcomer Rick Scott for the Republican nomination for governor, fired up nearly 250 Hillsborough GOP activists Friday night with a speech geared toward national issues.
By Lee Logan and John Frank
Rick Scott has made it clear there's no way he would have accepted federal stimulus money as governor.
By Josh Hafenbrack
Rick Scott might have a glaring liability in his quest for the governor's mansion: his hair. Or lack thereof.
By Aaron Deslatte
Florida's gubernatorial wannabes are confronting the worst economic climate in modern history with big plans -- but precious few details -- on how they would create more jobs.
By Adam C. Smith
Charlie Crist is threading a needle -- successfully so far -- in trying to build a coalition of enough Democratic, Republican and independent supporters to pull off an unprecedented nonpartisan statewide victory.
By Thomas Stewart
Still in Pensacola focusing on the oil washing up on the shores of Florida's Panhandle, Gov. Charlie Crist wasn't able to make it to his own fundraiser in south Fort Myers on Sunday night.
By Evangelia Ganosellis
During his second appearance in Lee County since May, Rep. Kendrick Meek stressed Florida's greatest needs: job creation and a solution to the oil spill.
By Adam C. Smith
Billionaire Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene raps Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist for accepting special interest campaign contributions, but he's keeping Floridians in the dark about his own special financial interests.
By David Hunt
With the Aug. 24 Democratic primary approaching, real estate tycoon Jeff Greene has been trying to grow roots in Jacksonville to support his U.S. Senate run against U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek.
By Howard Troxler
A paradox faces any third-party candidate for office: People don't take you seriously because not enough people take you seriously.
By John Frank
A pig-sized barrel smoker and the sweet smell of barbecue served as a beacon guiding the campaign's RV into the parking lot at Smokey J's Cafe.
By Bill Cotterell
Republican candidates barnstormed across the top of Florida on Saturday, pitching their conservative message in rural counties where most people register as Democrats but tend to vote heavily for GOP nominees in the fall.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Al Forman
Constitutional Amendment 4 allows residents to have a voice on how our community grows. About 700,000 grassroots petitions put it on the November ballot.
By Bill Kaczor
A pair of lawsuits seeking to knock three redistricting proposals off Florida's Nov. 2 ballot have touched off a legal and political free-for-all.
Editorial
Gov. Charlie Crist won the enmity of Republican legislative leaders when he vetoed their bill tying teachers' pay to students' achievement, their bill banning funding for human embryonic stem-cell research, their bill letting legislative leaders control slush funds and their bill compromising women's constitutional right to an abortion.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Fred Tasker and Laura Figueroa
The oil is inescapable to the people of the Gulf Coast. Cleanup workers burn it at sea, skim it in boats.
By Melissa Nelson
County officials lifted health warnings and opened Pensacola Beach for swimmers on Friday, but signs of the vast BP oil spill were everywhere on what would normally have been a busy June afternoon.
By Virginia Chamlee
In adddition to the more than 70 calls that have been made to the St. Johns River fish-kill hotline with reports of dead fish, area organizations have started getting calls to report another ailing species: birds.
By Bruce Ritchie
Statewide environmental groups are objecting to the Suwannee River Water Management District's designation of "surplus" lands that could be sold and say they will ask Gov. Charlie Crist to intervene.
By Jen Calantone
In part for the "feel-good factor" of saving energy, Steve Marino equipped his guesthouse with a $35,000 solar electric system.
LGBT
By Steve Rothaus
Equality Florida executive director, Nadine Smith, approaches the President to hand him this letter on behalf the 131,000 Equality Florida supporters and all fair-minded Americans.
Editorial
As gay men and lesbian women gather in St. Petersburg this weekend for the St. Pete Pride celebration, the unresolved debates over "don't ask, don't tell" and gay marriage still dominate the country's discussion on gay rights.
EDUCATION
Staff Report
Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith wants $3 million in damages from a contractor for delays in grading FCAT tests.
Staff Report
The state Department of Education announced Friday that it is planning to be able to release the results of the 2010 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test on Tuesday morning.
By Harriet Daniels
By the end of June, area schools are usually well on their way to developing the master schedule for students and teachers for the upcoming year.
By Leslie Postal
This summer, Central Florida school administrators face a task many have dreaded for years: getting their schools in compliance with the final, strict phase of the state's class-size law.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Brandon Larrabee
For the state budget, it might be all downhill from here.
By Paul Owers
Scott Katzer owes about $200,000 more than his Fort Lauderdale home is worth.
SunRail, bullet train on track for 2015
News Service of Florida
The Progress Report
Think Progress
More than 17,000 jobless in Lee and Collier will likely lose their unemployment benefits
Naples Daily News
Editorial
Miami Herald
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jim Saunders
Florida's chances of receiving up to $1 billion in additional Medicaid money appeared to be in deep trouble Thursday after U.S. Senate Republicans again blocked a bill that includes help for cash-strapped states and unemployed people.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Cristina Silva
Florida Republican leaders have begun crafting anti-illegal-immigrant legislation modeled after an Arizona law that has incited widespread protests and fueled national and international debate over U.S. immigration policies.
By Kingsley Guy
Is an Arizona-style immigration law in Florida's future?
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Jim Ash
Even before the Florida Supreme Court launches an "innocence commission," some advocates are worried about its future.
By John Frank
A U.S. Supreme Court decision this week limiting a key tactic federal prosecutors use to fight public corruption drew notice here in Florida amid several investigations tied to political figures.
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