PROGRESS FLORIDA IN THE NEWS
By Capitol News Service
Excerpt: Progress Florida's political director says taking big money out of the game will make lawmakers more accountable to their constituents. "This changes our system so that instead of candidates for congressional office relying on major donations from huge corporations, like BP and Goldman Sachs for example, they can rely more on small dollar donations from their constituents."
FEATURED STORIES
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Crist calls special session on offshore-drilling ban, rankling Republicans
Orlando Sentinel
Judge blocks Florida Legislature's redistricting amendment from November ballot
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Scott doesn't need to get to work -- he needs a tutor
St. Petersburg Times
It's merely an idle guess, but it could have happened this way.
BEST OF THE BLOGS
By Gimleteye
I'm looking forward to the midnight mailers from shadowy political groups funded by the Growth Machine that will try to sabotage Amendment 4, Florida Hometown Democracy, in the final weeks leading up to the November election.
By Daniel Tilson
Get ready for your electric bills to skyrocket. And if you're thinking maybe you'll go solar, don't count on any help from the government.
By Inkberries
Over the weekend, President Obama announced that the Department of Energy will award $2 billion to solar energy companies to help speed the economic recovery and create jobs.
By JT Orlando
In a blow to efforts to help the homeless nationwide, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the City of Orlando's efforts to stop feeding the homeless in city parks.
By Beach Blogger
The BP oil spill has pushed Pensacola Beach real estate sales off a cliff.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Mike Thomas
Cheney Mason is the patron saint of hapless defendants who seemingly have no defense.
By Brett Ader
Two leading groups pushing for the public financing of elections have begun a multi-million dollar campaign to spur Congress to move forward on proposed legislation that aims to curb the overwhelming influence of money in politics.
POLITICAL RACES
By Mitch Perry
Kendrick Meek accurately calls himself the only U.S. Senate candidate who's been consistently against offshore drilling.
By Alex Pareene
Jeff Greene is a self-funded billionaire candidate in the Democratic primary for senator from Florida.
By Beth Reinhard and Carrie Wells
State Rep. David Rivera, a Miami Republican and budget chief who has steered state funding to Florida International University, solicited all 4,000 FIU employees to donate to his congressional campaign, prompting the provost to issue a campuswide warning Thursday about using public resources for political activities.
By Jeremy Wallace
Rick Scott, the former hospital company CEO turned frontrunner in the Republican primary for governor, made his first campaign stops in the region Thursday touting his business background as an elixir for what ails government.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Bill Cotterell
A circuit judge ruled today that the constitutional amendment Florida legislators devised in response to two redistricting proposals can't go on the November ballot for a public vote.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Jim Waymer
Forcing Florida to get 20 percent of its energy from solar, biomass and other renewable sources could save jobs when the space shuttle program ends, business and environmental leaders said Thursday at an energy summit.
By Michael Kunzelman
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the federal government's effort to restore an offshore deepwater drilling moratorium, opening the door to resumed drilling in the Gulf while the legal fight continues.
By Jay Reeves
A problem lurks under the sand on the Gulf Coast, but some argue the best thing to do is -- nothing.
By Robert Trigaux
Once upon a time Florida went looking for an energy policy but got terribly lost along the way.
By Bart Jansen
BP has agreed to reimburse Escambia County for nearly the full amount the county has spent responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill after initially refusing to pay for almost half of the county's expenses, Escambia officials said Thursday.
By Chris Kromm
One of the most striking things we learned meeting with community leaders in the Gulf Coast recently is how deeply conflicted coastal residents are about offshore oil drilling.
By Jim Ash
Gov. Charlie Crist and officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission released a flock of three Pied-billed grebes, victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill catastrophe.
By Virginia Chamlee
Recently inaugurated Jacksonville City Council President Jack Webb threw his hat in the political ring due to a "palpable sense of discontent with government," and is now pledging to focus his attention on determining the root cause of fish kills in the ailing St. Johns River, which many suspect is runoff from industry giants Georgia-Pacific and JEA.
By Bruce Ritchie
The owner of 57 acres near the Three Sisters Springs in Crystal River tentatively has agreed to sell his land to the state for $10.5 million, a landowner representative said Thursday.
Editorial
Just before the Fourth of July weekend, Escambia County officials couldn't get the data they needed from the Environmental Protection Agency to inform tourists and residents whether it was safe to swim in the waters just off the Panhandle county's beaches.
Editorial
The Deepwater Horizon disaster destroyed the fiction that offshore drilling is safe.
LGBT
By Ros Krasny
In a victory for gay rights in the United States, a U.S. district court judge in Massachusetts ruled on Thursday that a federal ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
EDUCATION
By Harriet Daniels
The most recent FCAT scores for about 18,000 Alachua County students are expected to arrive in the mail to parents starting next week.
By Cristina Silva
Like any good Democrat, gubernatorial hopeful Alex Sink has a habit of highlighting the state's mediocre public education record.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Jeff Ostrowski
Unemployment benefits will expire for about 34,000 Floridians this week because the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill to keep the payments flowing.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Dave Gulliver
Most Florida hospital outpatient departments are performing either too many mammograms, exposing patients to unnecessary risks, or too few, and missing signs of cancer.
By Jim Saunders
WellCare Health Plans is now free to sue the three former executives who ran the Tampa-based company into a financial scandal, under a federal judge's ruling Wednesday.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Luke Johnson
Related: The economic impact of immigration
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
Rothstein law partner was paid $500,000 the day Rothstein fled
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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