FEATURED STORIES
By John Frank
Related: Jim Greer's downfall as RPOF chairman came slowly, steadily
Fired Florida GOP office manager: Jim Greer's expense receipts were altered
Orlando Sentinel
Storms hammer Florida Panhandle, tossing oil on beaches and stalling spill
Palm Beach Post
Advocacy groups to sue BP, Coast Guard for burning endangered turtles
Florida Independent
FLORIDA POLITICS
By David Hunt
With a number of investigative materials publicly filed in the criminal case against former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer, Florida Democrats want a look at the documents.
By Susan Salisbury
Two Florida Public Service commissioners were bounced from their posts Wednesday, and they blamed their refusal to grant rate increases to Florida Power & Light and another utility for their ouster.
By Charles Rabin
As the clock struck 12:01 a.m. Thursday, gamblers grinned, kids frowned and the faithful said a prayer of thanks.
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
From banning the sale of exotic pythons to raising graduation standards for high school students, more than 150 new state laws take effect today.
By Dave Weber
Starting Thursday, it becomes a whole lot harder for Florida public employees to double-dip into payroll and retirement funds.
Editorial
Five months after the Florida Public Service Commission acted on behalf of consumers by rejecting two utilities' record requests for rate increases, a handful of legislators have helped the industry extract another pound of flesh.
POLITICAL RACES
By Alex Pareene
As usual, Florida is making a mess of its elections this year.
By Lee Logan and Carrie Wells
Voters in a Little Havana-based district will have two choices for state senator in November ballot: the winner of the Republican primary and a blank line for a write-in candidate's name.
By Anthony Man
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum won applause from hundreds of tea party activists Wednesday evening with his conservative-themed stump speech.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Virginia Chamlee
Four Florida women filed a suit against Florida Secretary of State Dawn Roberts and the Department of State on June 24 in Leon County court, seeking an injunction that would strike Amendment 9 from the November ballot.
By Christine Jordan Sexton
A legal challenge has been mounted against Amendment 9, the proposed constitutional amendment to weaken the federal health care reform overhaul.
By Michael D. Bates
This November, voters will go to the polls to vote on Amendment 4, a proposed change to the state constitution that could alter the landscape of local planning projects for years to come.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By John M. Broder
Related: Day 71: The Latest on the Oil Spill
Tests: Dispersants OK Alone, Threats From Mixing with Oil Still Unknown
Public News Service Florida
Clean Energy Congress calls for special legislative session, House leadership balks
Florida Independent
Florida solar program ends with $41 million backlog
FloridaEnvironments.com
All talk, but little action on energy
Gainesville Sun
Don't weep for the oil industry
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
LGBT
By Beth Reinhard
Former hospital executive Rick Scott, a deep-pocketed and increasingly serious candidate for governor of Florida, attacked his Republican Primary rival today for having backed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2008.
EDUCATION
By Cara Fitzpatrick
In any other year, state Education Commissioner Eric Smith might have touted this week's dramatic jump in FCAT writing scores.
By Denise-Marie Balona
President Barack Obama wants the United States to become the best-educated country in the world by 2020.
By John Koenig
Improvement is always good, so I was pleased to learn Wednesday that Florida's middle-and high-school students posted their highest-ever scores on the FCAT reading test this year.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Jim Ash
While local governments struggle to get reimbursed for millions spent fighting the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, the federal government is about to grant Florida $7 million in retraining programs for laid off workers in the fishing, hospitality and tourism industries in 27 coastal counties.
By Mary Ellen Klas
As hundreds of business owners shuffle through the claims process to recover losses caused by the oil disaster, BP's promise that it will ``deny no legitimate claim'' is taking on a bitter meaning.
The Associated Press
Gov. Charlie Crist has asked BP for $50 million more to promote Florida tourism.
By Alex Leary
The U.S. House moments ago voted 237-192 to approve a set of far-reaching financial regulations, and Florida reflected the partisan divide.
By Annie Lowrey
On Wednesday night, a bare-bones measure to keep federally funded unemployment insurance checks headed to the long-term unemployed failed in the Senate.
The Progress Report
With millions of Americans unemployed, the nation struggling to recover from the greatest financial crisis in decades, and "job creation and economic growth" top priorities for the public, President Obama is poised to sign landmark financial regulatory reform meant to ensure the country won't ever face these same dire problems in the future.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Susan Jenks
People previously denied health insurance because of a pre-existing medical condition can begin enrolling today in high-risk pools, now being set up across the country.
By Jim Saunders and Carol Gentry
Amid claims of widespread fraud by the state's largest Medicaid HMO, a state official has called on Attorney General Bill McCollum to prosecute WellCare Health Plan officials involved in trying to "rip off" the taxpayers.
By Anika Myers Palm
If your parents are 60 or older and live near here, chances are they've been scammed.
By James H. Burnett III
While drug-related deaths across Florida rose an alarming 20 percent last year over 2008, South Florida saw a notable decrease in two key areas of substance abuse: cocaine and heroin.
By Michael LaForgia
As cash-and-carry pain clinics spread across Florida in 2009, and state lawmakers haggled over ways to confront pain clinic problems, the number of people who died of oxycodone overdoses statewide leapt by 26 percent, according to a medical examiner's report made public this morning.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Alfonso Chardy
Julio Salgado, an undocumented immigrant worker from Nicaragua, has been questioned by the police in the past after business owners called authorities to complain about the presence of day laborers.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Jane Musgrave
A measure designed to keep Bentley-driving drug dealers and mansion-owning murderers from getting taxpayers to pick up the tab for their defense will likely waste limited resources and could slow down an already overburdened court system, public defenders, judges and court clerks said Wednesday.
By Jay Weaver, James H. Burnett III, and Amy Sherman
A network of Broward County attorneys, law enforcement officers and mortgage brokers are accused of falsifying a slew of documents to obtain $16.5 million in loans that they used to buy and flip properties during the real estate boom, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.
By Brittany Wallman
The Broward Sheriff's Office has opened a corruption investigation into County Commissioner Suzanne Gunzburger, a stunning move on BSO's part that could be politically devastating to the longtime commissioner.
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