PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Daniel Tilson
The West Palm Beach Examiner
I'm very proud to announce that my netroots and examiner work this past year has earned me four nominations in the 2010 Florida Netroots Awards. I'm even prouder to be nominated in the company of some of Florida's finest political writers, bloggers and online activists, people like The Reid Report's Joy-Ann Reid, Saint Petersblog's Peter Schorsch and Progress Florida's Ray Seaman.
By Mark Ferrulo
Tampa Tribune
FEATURED STORIES
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 News Service of Florida
Republican Rick Scott lost his bid Wednesday to have part of Florida's public campaign finance law overturned, but even the judge siding with opponent Bill McCollum conceded the 23-year-old measure may not survive this election season.
By Lee Logan and Danny Valentine
With the Republican gubernatorial primary campaign at a fever pitch and a special legislative session looming, the passionate issue of immigration has taken center stage in the state capital.
By Kathleen McGrory
Related: Florida earns F for accountability
Mechanical Problem Hampers BP Effort to Shut Off Well
New York Times
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Lindsay Peterson
The first bills filed for next week's special legislative session have nothing to do with what Gov. Charlie Crist called lawmakers together to discuss.
By Julie Patel
Gov. Charlie Crist appointed State Rep. Ronald Brisé and Jacksonville City Councilman Arthur Graham to serve on the Public Service Commission, which regulates how affordable, reliable and safe your utility service is.
POLITICAL RACES
By Tristram Korten
With his retinue of notorious celebrity friends, including former pimp Heidi Fleiss and boxer/convicted rapist Mike Tyson, and his previous history running for office as a Republican, billionaire Jeff Greene is not the kind of candidate the Democratic machine would necessarily put up for U.S. Senate.
By William March
The independent committees being used by both candidates in the Florida Republican primary for governor could end up providing a financial bonanza for Florida television stations at a time when broadcasters have been suffering financially during the recession.
By Howard Troxler
A little after 4 p.m. Tuesday, Marco Rubio pushed open the door of the Habana Cafe in Gulfport. The waiting crowd burst into cheers.
By Louis Cooper
If Marco Rubio were in the Senate today, his No. 1 priority would be to establish a Gulf Opportunity Zone to help those suffering financially from the ongoing BP oil spill.
By Carrie Wells
The question dogs gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott wherever he goes: What was your role in Columbia/HCA's Medicare fraud?
By David Hunt
State Sen. John Thrasher, who came under heavy fire from teachers and teachers' unions as he tried to shepherd his controversial education bill through the Legislature this year, said he's keeping a focus on education if he's re-elected.
Staff Report
After candidate for attorney general Sen. Dave Aronberg, D-Greenacres, resurrected the Florida Mainstream Democrats name for use as his 527, Democratic rival Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, and former FMD Chairman Rep. Rick Kriseman, D-St. Petersburg, called the move "misleading" and that they were "disappointed."
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Christine Jordan Sexton
Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday fired back at BP officials, saying he was disappointed that they had turned down a request for $50 million that Florida wanted for tourism advertising and marketing in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
By Kevin Spear
As Florida Panhandle communities have one by one erected beefier defenses to keep crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill out of their local waters, one of the state's most financially strapped counties remains desperate for the go-ahead and the cash to chain a string of barges across the main entrance to environmentally delicate Apalachicola Bay.
By Steve Newborn
As BP moves to cut off the flow of the Deepwater Horizon gusher, a USF oceanographer says that if it is left unchecked, the oil could be off Florida's west coast by the fall.
By Shaila Dewan
The Kemp's ridley sea turtle lay belly-up on the metal autopsy table, as pallid as split-pea soup but for the bright orange X spray-painted on its shell, proof that it had been counted as part of the Gulf of Mexico's continuing "unusual mortality event."
By Mark Scheerer
A scientist and expert in ocean oil spills says fear over dispersant being used in the Gulf is mostly unfounded, but he adds that more information is needed.
By Andy Reid
Taunting Gov. Charlie Crist with sugar cookies topped with the word "BAILOUT," tea party activists converged west of West Palm Beach on Wednesday to protest a proposed $536 million Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp.
By Curtis Morgan
Environmentalists have a long list of concerns about Florida Power & Light's plans to add two more nuclear reactors to its Turkey Point facility.
LGBT
The Associated Press
Prosecutors have dropped all charges against an openly gay Iraq War veteran who twice chained himself to a White House fence to protest the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
EDUCATION
By Marc Freeman
The Palm Beach County School Board, staring at a possible $27 million penalty next year for violating the state's more restrictive class-size requirements, voted unanimously Wednesday to join a statewide lawsuit against the sanction.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jay Weaver
As the feds squeeze tighter, South Florida's Medicare schemers have scurried into new territory to loot hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers, now billing the system for bogus mental health, physical therapy and other rehabilitation services.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By VÃctor Manuel Ramos
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