FEATURED STORIES
By Gary Fineout
A special session is only a week away but no firm plan has been reached by House and Senate leaders on what should happen.
By Robert Napper
A Republican state representative has filed three immigration bills amid Florida's brewing debate about which issues should be heard during next week's special session.
By Craig Pittman
In the first month of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Gov. Charlie Crist asked BP for $25 million to pay for an advertising blitz to promote how clean Florida's beaches are.
By Bill Cotterell
Two black legislators and a former lawmaker trying for a political comeback started a campaign Tuesday to rekindle the enthusiasm President Obama sparked two years ago.
By Daniel A. Smith
The employees and political action committees of securities and investment firms like Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have given more than $577,000 to Florida members of Congress so far this election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Mary Ellen Klas
Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to name his replacements for his two ousted appointees to the state utility-regulation board Wednesday, and will choose from a list of eight applicants that includes many with deep ties to utility companies.
POLITICAL RACES
By Brendan Farrington
Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum angrily defended himself Tuesday against Rick Scott's attacks in the governor's race, at one point grabbing a Scott campaign mailer and refuting its claims point by point.
By Josh Hafenbrack
Republican Rick Scott is on an unprecedented spending spree. He's poured more than $21 million -- and counting -- into his race for governor.
By Adam Smith
Billionaire Senate candidate Jeff Greene is spending millions on TV and campaign mailers casting himself the "proven job creator," but proving how many jobs he's created isn't so easy.
By Aaron Sharockman and Janet Zink
Marco Rubio, who as House speaker published a book of 100 ideas that became a road map for the state Legislature, unveiled a new set of ideas on Tuesday that he said he wants to take to the U.S. Senate.
By Steve Newborn and Scott Finn
The two leading candidates for Florida's U.S. Senate seat held dueling oil spill meetings Tuesday that revealed their very different personalities.
By Alex Leary
The Buzz is Bill Clinton will head to Florida in August to campaign for Kendrick Meek.
By Steve Bousquet
Pam Bondi is running for attorney general as a conservative Republican, but for much of her adult life she was a registered Democrat.
By Virginia Chamlee
Recent algal blooms and fish kills in the St. Johns River have begun to make their way into the increasingly heated 2010 election cycle.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Aaron Deslatte
Acting Florida Secretary of State Dawn Roberts is asking the state Supreme Court to wade into a political battle over two redistricting amendments on the November ballot.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
The Associated Press
The plan to start choking off oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico was suddenly halted as government officials and BP said further analysis must be done Wednesday before critical tests could proceed.
By Mary Ellen Klas
Pressure is mounting for legislators to expand the special session next week to revamp Florida's laws to help ailing Panhandle residents recover from the financial hit of the oil disaster.
By Joe Harless
A water tower on Interstate 10 proclaims that Pensacola is home to "Florida's Most Beautiful Beaches."
By Bruce Ritchie
BP appears to be rejecting Gov. Charlie Crist's request for an additional $50 million for Florida tourism advertising in response to the ongoing oil spill.
By Kris Wernowsky
The Escambia County Commission on Tuesday approved the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce spending another $700,000 of BP's money on a nationwide advertising blitz.
By Matthew Brown and Ramit Plushnick-Masti
Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment.
By Manley Fuller
The Florida Wildlife Federation and a number of allies are advocating the placement of a constitutional amendment before Florida voters this fall that would prohibit oil drilling in Florida's coastal waters.
By Joshua Lee Holton
With spreading oil polluting the Gulf of Mexico, some groups say this July the US should declare its independence from dirty fossil fuels by using policy to develop clean and renewable energy.
The Progress Report
Last month, a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would have cut $35 billion in taxpayer subsidies to Big Oil companies was soundly defeated in the Senate by a 35-61 vote, with every Republican and 21 Democrats voting against it.
By Andrew Restuccia
Environmental groups are working feverishly behind the scenes to ensure that the climate and energy bill being cobbled together by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) includes a carbon cap on the power sector, but sources closely following the debate on and off Capitol Hill say there is simply not enough support for such a proposal to pass the Senate this year.
LGBT
By Alex Leary
From Marco Rubio to Bill McCollum to Larry Cretul, top Florida Republicans say Gov. Charlie Crist's special session to consider a constitutional ban on oil drilling is a costly redundancy.
EDUCATION
By Tom Marshal
Related editorial: School grades too important to be based on questionable FCAT scores
Online testing of students: Will Florida be ready?
Orlando Sentinel
Miami-Dade School Board might join class-size lawsuit
Miami Herald
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
Editorial
With the nation's jobless rate still pushing double digits, there is a good case for prolonging the period that unemployed workers can get checks from Uncle Sam.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Christine Jordan Sexton
Florida hospitals won't see a 7 percent reduction in their Medicaid rates before the end of the year.
By Jeremy Cox
Northeast Florida's Medicaid recipients are making fewer trips to the doctor for chronic illnesses since state officials outsourced the government-subsidized health insurance program to private managed care companies.
By Jim Saunders
Warning that it will otherwise have to cut services, Shands HealthCare wants to use a special legislative session next week to reverse Gov. Charlie Crist's veto of $9.7 million for the University of Florida teaching hospital.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Robert Napper
As Florida Republicans gear up for an effort to write and pass an immigration law in Florida based on Arizona's controversial S.B. 1070, Democrats here are questioning whether the two states' concerns over illegal immigration are even comparable.
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