FEATURED STORIES
Staff Report
Robots lowered a new, tighter-fitting cap onto a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico late Monday -- a move that might give BP the ability to stop the flow of oil completely.
By Lee Logan
Bill McCollum's campaign for governor is one major TV advertising purchase away from going broke as it heads into the last six weeks before the Aug. 24 Republican primary, according to an affidavit filed Monday by McCollum's campaign manager.
By Michael C. Bender
Related editorial: Slick campaigning on BP: Despite Aronberg's claims, Gelber isn't tainted
Political parties wage war of inches in Florida
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Rick Scott's deceitful, heartless ploy
St. Petersburg Times
FLORIDA POLITICS
Staff Report
Gov. Charlie Crist is considering candidates for appointment to the Public Service Commission.
By Richard Burnett
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has hired former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez as chairman of Chase Bank's Florida market and its operations in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
POLITICAL RACES
By William March and Catherine Whittenburg
A court filing by Bill McCollum's campaign for governor shows how much he's depending on public campaign financing in his battle against self-financing millionaire Rick Scott.
By Mitch Perry
Florida's public finance laws ("derided as welfare for politicians") will make Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum eligible for taxpayer funds matching dollar-for-dollar what his richer opponent, Rick Scott spends over the $24.9 million limit, which could happen within the next week or so.
By Betty Parker
After watching Rick Scott's ads on television for weeks, many who saw him up close and personal for the first time at a speech in Fort Myers on Monday said they now have a different view of the Republican candidate for governor.
By Daniel Carson
Attorney General Bill McCollum brought his gubernatorial campaign to Panama City on Monday, as the former congressman met with Port Panama City officials and spoke with a small crowd of supporters later in the day at Smitty's Barbecue.
By David Hunt
With the Aug. 24 primaries approaching, candidates are making the rounds.
By Bill Cotterell
U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene said Monday that Democrats have a better chance of taking Florida's seat back from the Republicans if he is their nominee.
By William March
Marco Rubio has announced his Senate campaign raised $4.5 million in the second quarter of 2010, the most ever raised in a three-month period by a Florida political candidate.
By Brandon Larrabee
For any party chairman in Florida, the coming four months would offer a full plate: a U.S. Senate seat, the governor's mansion and all three Cabinet positions are open.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
Editorial
Circuit Judge James Shelfer of Tallahassee deserves credit for striking from the November ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that was the Legislature's not-too-subtle attempt to undermine two other proposals which, if passed, would change the way lawmakers configure legislative and congressional voting districts in Florida.
Editorial
When legislators in Tallahassee tell you they are going to "clarify" something for you, beware.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Steve Bousquet
Related: National Guard troops poised, awaiting calls from counties to help with oil spill
The independent manager of $20-billion in claims from the Gulf Coast oil disaster reassured Panhandle business owners and officials Monday that their losses will be covered, but first they have to be proven.
By Bruce Ritchie
The sight of oil washing up on Florida's beaches and the empty restaurants, souvenir stores and bait shops already has led to the filing of numerous lawsuits -- creating perhaps a sense that attorneys are closing in like sharks at the smell of blood, or money, in the water.
By Eric Mack
Offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has officially been suspended, for the second time.
The Associated Press
First lady Michelle Obama visited the Florida Panhandle on Monday to shine a spotlight on a tourism industry battered by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
By George Bennett
When a presidential commission to study the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster began listening to testimony Monday in New Orleans, it marked the latest crisis-driven assignment on a federal blue-ribbon panel for former Florida Gov. and Sen. Bob Graham.
Editorial
Gov. Charlie Crist's call for a special legislative session seeking a constitutional ban on oil drilling in state waters was met immediately with critics' charges that the governor is playing election-year politics with the issue.
EDUCATION
By Dave Weber and Leslie Postal
Five Florida school districts are formally questioning the recent results of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test and have asked the state to delay calculating annual school grades based on the test scores.
By Topher Sanders
School districts throughout the state saw their Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test writing scores go through the roof this year, but the state is telling educators and parents that it's not because of an academic breakthrough.
By Gabrielle Sena
Education officials are seeing some extremely low scores on this year's Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
By Ron Matus
Hillsborough students performed slightly better on this year's Advanced Placement exams even as more students took the college-caliber tests, the latest scores show.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Gina Jordan
It's swimsuit and vacation season, and while some are working to shed pounds for the beach, others are going on a debt diet, hoping to shed unwanted financial fat.
By John Hielscher
As bank failures in Florida continue to mount, new players are swooping in.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Marissa Cevallos
Seniors at a Monday morning health-care forum wanted to know if the new health-care law will help them pay for prescription drugs and whether the government could afford the changes to Medicare.
Is Florida a bike haven or hazard?
Orlando Sentinel
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Editorial
A news-press.com story Monday started by asking the question: "Should Florida copy Arizona's immigration law?"
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Gary Fineout
The Florida Supreme Court on Monday blocked an Escambia County judge from returning to the bench, saying in a ruling that "a judgeship is not an office that can be temporarily forsaken at will for personal benefit."
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