FEATURED STORIES
By Jeff Harrington
A pair of reports Wednesday -- a long-term economic forecast from the University of Central Florida and a University of Florida survey -- stoke concerns that the economic fallout from the BP oil spill will haunt the state for years.
By Alex Leary
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law, a last-minute, if temporary, reprieve for opponents who have called the measures extreme and want a federal approach to the problem.
By John Lantigua and Ana M. Valdes
South Florida immigrants viewed with relief a federal judge's decision Wednesday to block provisions of an Arizona law that would step up enforcement against people suspected of being in the country illegally.
By William E. Gibson
South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will help lead a nationwide Democratic campaign this fall that will try to tie Republican candidates to extreme elements of the Tea Party movement.
By Amy Sherman
The Republican Party of Florida was sued Wednesday for $237,000 it received from Scott Rothstein's defunct Fort Lauderdale law firm.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Marc Caputo
On the day Jim Greer was jailed for alleged fraud, the former Republican Party of Florida chairman found himself in a strange world as he scrambled to find a bail bondsmen, his lawyer, a suit for his first court appearance and his kid's tennis coach to cancel a lesson, according to recordings of his phone calls from the Seminole County Detention Center.
By David Rogers
With President Barack Obama pounding the stump, the fate of a small business aid package in the Senate Thursday could turn on a Republican short-timer from Florida with political ambitions of his own in 2012.
POLITICAL RACES
Press Release
Florida businessman Rick Scott holds a 43 - 32 percent lead over State Attorney General Bill McCollum for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of likely primary voters released today.
By William March
Florida's top two business trade groups have split on the governor's race, with the Florida Chamber of Commerce endorsing Bill McCollum for the Republican nomination, and Associated Industries of Florida backing both McCollum and Rick Scott for governor.
By Steve Bousquet
Rick Scott is all over TV, spending his millions on ads promoting himself as an outsider candidate for governor against "career politician" Bill McCollum.
By Bill Cotterell
From the place where he started his petition campaign in Orlando to the Wausau Possum Festival, from Pensacola's beaches to an early voting date in his hometown of Miami, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek plans an 11-day statewide bus tour in his U.S. Senate campaign.
Meek won't pledge to back Greene
Politico
More stores close under Greene bankruptcy
Miami Herald
Rubio a big spender as well as big fund-raiser in U.S. Senate race
Palm Beach Post
Grayson bills taxpayers for DVD of term's highlights
Orlando Sentinel
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Andy Ford
The Sentinel was off the mark in its editorial Tuesday about the class-size initiative the Legislature placed on the ballot this November and the Florida Education Association's opposition to it.
By Howard Troxler
With St. Petersburg's final decision not until September, let's take another look at that city's attempt to thwart Amendment 4.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Curtis Morgan and Fred Tasker
As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill hit the 100-day mark Wednesday, clear lessons have emerged from the stained waters.
By Nathan Crabbe
University of Florida coastal and oceanographic engineering professor Peter Sheng said the state has been lucky in regards to the BP oil spill, but that luck is bound to run out.
By Travis Pillow
Speaking at a meeting of Gov. Charlie Crist's Gulf Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force, Kenneth Feinberg said Wednesday that he wished he could predict the future.
By Tom McLaughlin
BP officials sat quietly and nodded Wednesday as members of the governor's Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force berated them for not getting Florida money to market itself.
By Stephen Nohlgren and Craig Pittman
Down at the docks, grouper boats are lined up and waiting. Many have been waiting for a while -- waiting for the part of the Gulf of Mexico closed by the oil spill to reopen, waiting for the crews and captains to return to fishing.
By Jennifer Gollan
Being green is not easy, especially in South Florida.
Editorial
Gainesville Sun
EDUCATION
By Mary Kelli Palka
The results of two independent audits of this year's Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test results aren't finalized, but the reviews so far show variables in the test scores are within historical ranges, state officials said Wednesday evening.
By Joe Callahan
Uncertainty over the accuracy of this year's FCAT results has prompted state officials to hold off on releasing school letter grades.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Bruce Ritchie
More then 100 days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Florida panhandle, a University of Florida study shows that the disaster is creating real estate market uncertainties far from the original spill site.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Sahil Kapur
Four months after President Barack Obama enacted the Affordable Care And Patient Protection Act, House Democrats have revived a top liberal priority that was eliminated from the sweeping health care law in the latter stages of a grueling year-long debate: the public option.
By Lottie Watts
Florida is one of just three states with a top-rated, five-star Medicare Advantage plan.
By Kris Wernowsky
Lakeview Center psychologist Irvin Williams evaluated a patient this week addicted to the painkiller OxyContin.
By Fred Tasker
The Miami Veterans Administration hospital said Wednesday it has reached all 79 local veterans it failed to contact last year when it learned that colonoscopies performed at the facility between 2004 and 2009 might have exposed them to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.
South Broward Hospital District, HMO fight over new fee
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
The Associated Press
States that had been watching Arizona's immigration law in hopes of copying it received a rude awakening when a judge put most of the measure on hold and agreed with the Obama administration's core argument that immigration enforcement is the role of the federal government.
By Mitch Perry
After a federal judge Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration enforcement law from going into effect, thousands of miles away, some Florida Republicans reacted with outrage.
The Progress Report
Ninety days after it was signed into law, Arizona's new immigration law -- SB-1070 -- is set to take effect tomorrow.
Florida church to host 'Jihad in Jacksonville' event
Florida Independent
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