PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Dave Heller
Excerpt: Progress Florida's Damien Filer: "I think we need to get something accomplished and if we can accomplish a permanent ban on near-shore drilling in Florida, then I think we've accomplished something meaningful."
FEATURED STORIES
By Marc Caputo
Long before criminal investigations shook the Republican Party of Florida, office manager Susan Wright noticed a problem: Higher-ups were spending party money to help themselves instead of the GOP.
By Laura Figueroa
Related: Babies of the oil spill face an uncertain future
Some Florida GOP lawmakers in a tough spot over drilling proposal
Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times Tallahassee Bureau
Fla. officials ponder Ariz. immigration law
Florida Capital News
EDITORIAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
Florida Today
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Brandon Larrabee
When the Legislature adjourned at the end of April, there was already talk of a special session.
By C.J. Pruner
While Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's call for a special session on offshore drilling may have fired up partisan politics statewide, one UF expert expects that the session likely will not lead to a constitutional amendment banning oil drilling making it onto the November ballot.
By Lee Logan
Rep. Ron Schultz has an interesting theory.
By Lloyd Dunkelberger
Critics say Florida doesn't need a constitutional ban on oil drilling near the state's beaches because it is already prohibited by law.
By Matt Dixon
As the cherry end of Stephen Louveau's cigarette quickly crept toward the hand that earlier helped expertly roll it, he peered from under his dingy baseball cap and pondered a just-posed question: Can politicians relate to a guy like him?
By Gina Presson
While Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott is suing to block rivals from using public campaign funds, there's a new campaign to get big, special-interest money out of national politics.
POLITICAL RACES
By William March
Conservative Florida Republicans have long opposed the state's public campaign financing program, calling it "welfare for politicians," in the words of its leading opponent, former Gov. Jeb Bush.
By Jeff Ostrowski
At the peak of the housing frenzy, California landlord Jeff Greene made a shrewd move that countless American investors and homeowners wish they would have mimicked.
By Kristin Wright
Polls of potential voters in the race for Florida's U.S. Senate seat put former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio in the lead, followed closely by Governor Charlie Crist.
By Beth Reinhard
U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek is trying to kill a fledgling program that the federal government claims will deflate Medicare costs by requiring competitive bids from companies that provide medical equipment like oxygen tanks and wheelchairs.
By Adam C. Smith
Among the great unanswered questions this year is whether Charlie Crist would caucus with the Democrats or Republicans if he makes it to the Senate.
By Alex Leary
Daytona Beach, February 2007: 30 people gather at a medical billing office to hear a young Miami politician.
By Alexander Burns
Republicans have plunged into a state of all-but-open war with former hospital executive Rick Scott, the wealthy candidate for governor who's threatening to torch the state's political establishment in a self-funded march to the GOP nomination.
By John Frank
Rick Scott is reaching into his corporate past to woo a key electorate in the Republican primary for governor and bolster his claims as a "pro-life leader."
By Keith Laing
Republican gubernatorial candidates Bill McCollum and Rick Scott confirmed on Friday they'll hold at least two debates before their Aug. 24 primary, setting up early August showdowns that could reshape their race for the GOP nomination.
By Catherine Whittenburg
The Obama administration's attempt last week to kill Arizona's tough new immigration law had both of Florida's GOP candidates for governor racing to upstage one other's support for tough enforcement.
By Cristina Silva
Legions of pajama-clad voters could decide Florida's ballot long before the August primary.
By Mark Schlueb and David Damron
Central Florida voters will decide more than 100 races on the Aug. 24 primary ballot, with candidates fighting for everything from city commission seats to a six-year term in the U.S. Senate.
Editorial
Floridians who doubt the necessity of the state's public campaign finance law should consider the maneuvers of Rick Scott.
Editorial
Candidate for governor Rick Scott wants to be seen as a man of the people.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Cristina Silva
Underneath the loud tussling over who Florida's next governor and U.S. senator will be runs a quiet political battle that could have far more lasting ramifications.
Editorial
Bully for Judge James Shelfer. The Leon County circuit judge swatted down a proposed constitutional amendment that would dictate how new boundary lines are drawn for congressional and other voting districts in Florida.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Thyrie Bland
Related: Legal dream team eyed for oil-spill response
Oil's a moving target for no-fishing zones
St. Petersburg Times
State bear management plan in works
Ocala Star-Banner
LGBT
The Associated Press
Related: Servicemembers United: Pentagon survey on don't ask, don't tell 'incredibly biased, derogatory'
EDUCATION
By Denise-Marie Balona
Florida schools struggling to emerge from the bottom of the heap have started offering merit pay to teachers.
Editorial
The FCAT scores are in, and there are so many red flags that question the results, it isn't funny.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Michael Braga
After the worst year in the home building business since the Great Depression, Southwest Florida builders and their subcontractors are getting busy again.
By Britt Kenerly
Dale Ketcham uses military-style imagery to illustrate what's happening on the Space Coast and beyond with the shuttle retirement.
The Associated Press
Tourism promoters say LeBron James is giving South Florida a boost already.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Anne Geggis
The antibiotic that would have let Gayle Burnette Monroe keep her arms and legs and spared her from months of hospitalizations is free at local supermarkets.
By Dave Gulliver
A type of medical scan that delivers a double dose of radiation to the patient is recommended for only a small number of conditions.
Don't let WellCare off lightly for fraud
St. Petersburg Times
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Marcos Restrepo
The Department of Justice last week filed a lawsuit challenging Arizona's controversial immigration-enforcement law S.B. 1070 -- which requires law enforcement officials to "determine the immigration status" of a person if there is a "reasonable suspicion" that the person is an undocumented immigrant.
By Tracy X. Miguel
In the heat of immigration debate across the nation, growers and farmworker advocates are pressing for passage of the federal legislation known as Agjobs.
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