PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Dave Heller
Excerpt: "The leadership in this Legislature joined arm and arm with big oil yesterday and said we stand with you against the people we represent," said Damien Filer of Progress Florida.
FEATURED STORIES
By Beth Reinhard and Carrie Wells
With one month left in the costly and caustic Republican gubernatorial primary, the leading candidates both tramped across voter-rich Miami on Wednesday, with Rick Scott rolling out his long-awaited economic plan and Bill McCollum dismissing it as "partially plagiarized."
By Josh Hafenbrack
Gov. Charlie Crist signed an executive order Wednesday that could give homeowners and businesses in the Florida Panhandle stronger footing to seek financial relief from plummeting home values as a result of the BP oil spill.
The Associated Press
A storm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug the ruptured oil well to a near standstill Wednesday just as BP was getting tantalizingly close to going in for the kill.
By Jim Ash
Flatly rejecting Gov. Charlie Crist's order to put an offshore drilling ban on the November ballot in Tuesday's aborted special session, House Speaker Larry Cretul is forging ahead with his own response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.
Editorial
We should all be grateful to Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Bill Cotterell
What's this? Political people playing political games in an election year?
By Bobbie O'Brien
One state lawmaker is questioning the fact that no one from the Panhandle is leading six Florida House workgroups on the oil spill.
By Aaron Sharockman
The July 20, 2010, special session to consider a constitutional amendment banning oil drilling in state-controlled waters was full of drama and political theatrics, but ultimately little action.
The Associated Press
A member of the Florida Transportation Council from Cocoa is the owner of Gov. Charlie Crist's portrait that once graced the halls of the Republican Party of Florida's capital headquarters.
Editorial
Our esteemed legislative "leaders" made a 48-minute joke out of Tuesday's special session, called by Gov. Charlie Crist to put an offshore oil drilling ban on the November ballot.
POLITICAL RACES
By Scott Finn
For the first time this year, a poll shows Democrat Alex Sink beating both of her potential Republican challengers in the race for Florida governor.
By Mary Ellen Klas
Republican candidate for governor Rick Scott submitted his appeal brief to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal in Atlanta at noon Tuesday, claiming that the federal district court's argument was flawed when it upheld the Florida law on public campaign finance in light of a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the "millionaire's amendment" as an attempt to level the playing field.
By Zac Anderson
Spending $25 million of his own money on a furious three-month television advertising campaign, political outsider Rick Scott has gone from relative anonymity to leading the Republican race to become Florida's next governor.
By Luke Johnson
Buoyed by another $140,000 this week from Freedom First Committee (state Sen. Mike Haridopolos' 527), Florida First Initiative released Tuesday a new television ad attacking his rival, Rick Scott, on his tenure as CEO of Columbia/HCA, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the U.S.
By Aaron Deslatte
The biggest winner in the Republican gubernatorial ad war roaring on the airwaves could be one of the candidates spending the least: Democrat Alex Sink.
By Brendan Farrington
When a Democratic National Committee member asked for guidance on whom to support in the Democratic Senate primary, some come quickly - from billionaire Jeff Greene.
By Beth Reinhard
When he was a state legislator, Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek failed to disclose his stock ownership in a medical-waste company that eventually went bankrupt and whose officials were accused of cooking the books.
By Tia Mitchell
State Senate candidate Charles Perniciaro will report a campaign chest of $360,000 in his race against incumbent John Thrasher, and he announced Wednesday he will not take contributions from lobbyists or political action committees.
By Laura Kinsler
Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite raised more than $120,000 in the months before she made the surprise announcement that she wouldn't seek re-election because of health reasons.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Michael Van Sickler
Related editorial: Decoy land use ploy is insult to voters
By Jeff Boyle
Daytona Beach News-Journal
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Craig Pittman and Katie Sanders
Related: Crist issues order for 'interim' assessments to document oil spill damage
Loop current and leak cap keeping BP oil spill away from south Florida, East Coast
St. Petersburg Times
For oil spill victims, fair compensation requires a crystal ball
Florida Independent
Threats bring 'a dark year for sea turtles'
Ocala Star-Banner
Judge rejects Florida demand for water in dispute
Tampa Tribune
LGBT
Editorial
It's the United States that continues to be a hemispheric follower, not a leader, in the push to extend basic rights to a segment of the citizenry.
EDUCATION
By Eric J. Smith
It's no secret that opinions about the FCAT are as passionate as they are polarizing, but I can't help but be disappointed in The News-Journal's July 17 guest opinion piece by Bill Archer titled "State should examine high-stakes test scores."
By John Chambliss
Polk County ranks almost at the bottom in a national ranking that looked at how many residents had 4-year college degrees.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Laura Fiegueroa
Ten minutes is usually all it takes for Susan Estler to find an inviting beach scene, snap it with her iPhone camera, and blast it to digital billboards from Baltimore to Atlanta.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jim Saunders and Carol Gentry
Federal prosecutors in Tampa are reportedly checking whether Medicaid HMOs other than WellCare Health Plans submitted less-than-honest claims in past years.
By Linda Merrell
Caught in the swirl of controversy and commentary about national health care reform legislation are the benefits that will, overall, be a good thing for children in the nation and our community.
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