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By Mary Ellen Klas, Lee Logan, Steve Bousquet and Cristina Silva
Related: BP means Bitter Politics, as GOP leaders and Crist battle over drilling ban and oil spill
Related column: Is Crist's drilling ban necessary, or a 'political stunt'?
Crist, GOP bitterness might swamp session on drilling
Tampa Tribune
Florida Democrats hopeful for campaign season
Tallahassee Democrat
2010 -- an election year that could alter the Florida political landscape
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Editorial
Gainesville Sun
EDITORIAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
Pensacola News Journal
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Gov. Charlie Crist
This week marks three months since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that has spewed over 100 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
By Florida House Speaker Larry Cretul
Related editorial: Let people decide
Let voters decide on a ban on drilling
Miami Herald
Not all lawmakers focused on drilling ban
Pensacola News Journal
Blocking Florida's coastal protections
Tampa Tribune
POLITICAL RACES
By Beth Reinhard
Up early Sunday for a 12-hour campaign marathon through South Florida, Democrat Senate candidate Kendrick Meek said he saw three commercials for his deep-pocketed rival before he could even get out the door.
By Beth Reinhard and Patricia Mazzei
With Florida in the throes of the wildest and most wide-open election in decades, Democrats girded against a Republican-friendly political climate and gathered Saturday for one of the state party's most successful annual fundraising dinners.
By Anthony Man
It's not a great time for Democrats.
By William E. Gibson
The leading Democrat in Florida's nationally watched U.S. Senate race is a former state trooper, a civil rights demonstrator, a foil to Jeb Bush, a frequent travel companion to Bill Clinton and a lawmaker who once led the charge for reducing classroom size.
By Jim Stratton
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene had just finished a meeting on the Space Coast, when he was stopped by a reporter.
By Michael C. Bender
When Republican Bill McCollum declined to run for a second term as attorney general and instead entered the gubernatorial race in May 2009, he made a Charlie Crist-type commitment to "access and inclusion."
By George Bennett
Republican governor hopeful Bill McCollum unveiled an education plan Friday that would reward top teachers and make it easier to fire poor ones -- proposals similar to the ones that drew howls from teachers unions and a veto from Gov. Charlie Crist this year.
By Beth Reinhard
More than 1 million people in Florida are out of work. The oil spill is wreaking environmental and economic havoc. The state is one hurricane away from catastrophe.
By Christopher Curry
In a heated GOP gubernatorial primary, the traditionally Democratic stronghold of Alachua County has become a strategic hub for the state Republican establishment's battle against deep-pocketed former hospital executive Rick Scott.
By Janet Zink
A lawsuit challenging the federal health care legislation provoked the most conflict during a forum Friday for Florida's attorney general candidates.
By Brandon Larrabee
There's one thing that's unquestionably difficult for legislative incumbents to do when it comes to Florida elections: Lose.
By Patricia Mazzei, Amy Sherman and Lesley Clark
The last campaign finance reports the public will see before some voters start filling out their primary ballots show a massive money fight shaping up in one of the most closely watched congressional contests in Florida.
By Mark K. Matthews and Mark Schlueb
National discontent with Congress hasn't translated into dollars for Republican candidates looking to unseat Central Florida's two freshman Democrats.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Ron Rae
Hot topic: Referenda required for adoption and amendment of local government comprehensive land use plans.
By Lesley Blackner
Just look around Broward County, with commissioners being investigated for corruption, one commissioner in jail for taking favors from developers, and now 12 people arrested in a massive mortgage scam - and it is clear we need change.
Editorial
A Florida trial court has checked the arrogant abuse of power by the Legislature when it stuck a jumbled constitutional.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Ben Chambers
Starting today, Florida oceanographers will have good reason to ask, "Where's Waldo?"
Nature's burden: Clean up bulk of Gulf oil spill
Miami Herald
DEP chief Mike Sole is Florida's point man on the oil spill
St. Petersburg Times
Solar advocates push legislature to address renewable energy next week, but the prospects are dim
Florida Independent
US set to announce Everglades restoration project
Tampa Tribune
EDUCATION
By Bill Archer
Florida school superintendents -- including Volusia superintendent Margaret Smith -- are right to push for a third-party examination of anomalies in Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores that have some districts seeing as much as a 90-point drop.
By Brent Kallestad
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum announced his education platform Friday, saying he wants to make it easier to fire teachers by eliminating tenure and base their pay raises on classroom performance instead of seniority.
By Kevin D. Thompson
Education standards always have been an uneven patchwork of guidelines, varying from state to state and often confusing teachers, students and parents.
By Kathleen McGrory
With school starting at 7:30 a.m., Camonique White admitted it was difficult not nodding off in her first-period honors chemistry class.
Editorial
The latest concerns about the accuracy of data on FCAT grading reflects widespread concerns about the whole process.
FCAT results ... audit chain troubling as scores are sorted out
Naples Daily News
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Gina Jordan
The state's employment numbers show some bright spots in figures released Friday by the Agency for Workforce Innovation.
By Jim Stratton
Florida's statewide unemployment rate dipped to 11.4 percent last month, welcome news to the state's battered labor market but also a reminder that any economic recovery will be a long slow march.
By Stephen Goldstein
Elected officials come and go. But their policies, good or bad, may affect us for years.
By Mackenzie Ryan
In November, Florida Tech graduate student Stephanie Vos will travel to Antarctica to help research predatory crabs, which are thought to be migrating south and could devastate marine species found on the bottom of Antarctic seas.
By Bill Cotterell
Security to protect Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, his wife and two stepdaughters cost $1.8 million in the last 12 months, slightly more than the previous year.
By Susan Taylor Martin
You could call him the foreclosure king of Florida.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Mary Jo Melone
Joanie Pape of Navarre, 48, lost her job as a bank branch manager in January. With it went her health insurance, including coverage for her children, both students at Pensacola Junior College.
By Jay Weaver
Federal authorities early Friday charged 94 people with plotting to fleece $251 million from Medicare by filing phony claims with the taxpayer-funded healthcare program. Agents arrested 36 people.
By Linda Shrieves
Eighty-one hospitals in Florida are teaming up with one important goal: to reduce the number of infections and complications that occur after surgery.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
The Progress Report
In passing a resolution condemning the racist elements within the Tea Party this week, the NAACP set off a media firestorm over the merits of its charge against the right-wing movement.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Jon Burstein
A Miami-Dade County financial adviser has reached a $6 million settlement with the bankruptcy lawyers sifting through the wreckage of Scott Rothstein's massive Ponzi scheme.
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