FEATURED
STORIES
Storm scrambles campaign, maybe Election Day, too
By David Lightman and Erika Bolstad
McClatchy Newspapers
Hurricane Sandy added an unprecedented dose of uncertainty to an already-unpredictable presidential race Monday, forcing President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney to scramble their campaign schedules and raising the possibility that some states might have to alter Election Day plans.
Hurricane Sandy: What Romney Says He'd Do to FEMA
By Jordan Fabian
ABC News
Related YouTube video: Romney on FEMA government spending
Though the presidential campaigns have been focused on Hurricane Sandy, the politically sticky topic of disaster relief is making its way to the forefront.
Former President Bill Clinton makes case for President Barack Obama in Orlando
By Molly Moorhead
Tampa Bay Times
Former President Bill Clinton talked up education, energy, the economy and health care Monday in making the re-election case for President Barack Obama, who missed their planned double-bill rally to monitor Hurricane Sandy from Washington.
Rick Scott, Midterm
By Amy Keller
Florida Trend
Related: Lining Up - Rick Scott's Opponents
The best illustration of Rick Scott’s trajectory as governor of Florida is captured in the way he unveiled his first two budget proposals.
The Alec Equation
By Billee Bussard
Folio Weekly
Mike Weinstein told only part of the story in his election night remarks about his substantial loss (64 percent to 36 percent) to Aaron Bean in the Aug. 14 Republican primary for the newly drawn state Senate District 4 seat.
FLORIDA
POLITICS
Early Voting Setting Records
By Mike Vasilinda
Capitol News Service
By the time early voting closes for the day at 7:00 p.m. tonight, more than one in six registered Florida voters will have cast a ballot early or by mail.
Palm Beach County Screws Up Another Presidential Election
By Adam Weinstein
Mother Jones
Just in case 2012 hasn't filled you with Bush-Gore-repeat nightmares yet, there's bad news from the South Florida epicenter of the 2000 debacle: Election officials in Palm Beach County say they screwed up at least 60,000 absentee ballots and have to perform a recount.
Second printing error could jeopardize another 500 Palm Beach County absentee ballots, as copying of 27,000 continues
By Jane Musgrave
Palm Beach Post
Chalk up another printing error for the beleaguered Palm Beach County elections office.
Justin Lamar Sternad invokes Fifth Amendment right in FEC filing
By Marc Caputo
Miami Herald
A former congressional candidate at the center of an FBI probe tied to Rep. David Rivera has filed blank federal campaign-finance reports and a letter saying he would remain silent to avoid incriminating himself.
Voting-rights veteran leads Tallahassee march
By James Call
Florida Current
Echoes of the Civil Rights movement reverberated throughout the state Capitol Complex on Monday.
POLITICAL
RACES
Bill Clinton, in Orlando, urges students to vote Obama to sustain turnaround; Crist hugs Clinton
By George Bennett
Palm Beach Post
With President Obama canceling a campaign appearance here Monday morning to return to Washington to monitor Hurricane Sandy, former President Bill Clinton stepped into his explainer-in-chief role to contend that Obama has put America’s economy on the right track.
Political tensions high in The Villages between Obama, Romney supporters
By Eloísa Ruano González
Orlando Sentinel
Residents of "America's Friendliest Hometown" have noticed a decidedly unfriendly tone of late. In this retiree sanctuary, emotions are running high about the presidential election, with both sides hurling insults and worse.
Romney, Mack to hold Tampa rally Wednesday
By William March
Tampa Tribune
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, accompanied by U.S. Senate candidate Connie Mack IV, will hold an airport rally in Tampa on Wednesday morning.
Biden’s Sarasota visit shows how much region has changed
By Jeremy Wallace
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Vice president Joe Biden is scheduled to be in Sarasota Wednesday morning in the final push for votes with less than a week before Election Day.
Voters deserved better in Florida Senate race
By Steve Bousquet
Tampa Bay Times
Alongside a quiet country road in North Florida stands a big campaign sign.
Corrine Brown cruising toward Nov. 6 win
By Mark K. Matthews
Orlando Sentinel
U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has served two decades in Congress and is almost certain to return for an 11th term once voters cast their ballots on Election Day.
Veteran Mica cruising in Republican-leaning CD7
By Mark K. Matthews
Orlando Sentinel
After surviving his toughest primary in years, U.S. Rep. John Mica is the odds-on favorite to win an 11th term in Congress.
Republican Hasner underdog in West's old district
By Kelli Kennedy
Associated Press
It's fair to say Adam Hasner has a thick book of opposition research in his heated U.S. House race.
BALLOT
INITIATIVES
Just say 'no' to all 11 amendments
Editorial
Tampa Bay Times
The best way to send a message to Tallahassee that Floridians want fairer taxes and less extreme government is to say "no" to the 11 state constitutional amendments on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Fight intensifies over property tax amendment
By Toluse Olorunnipa
Miami Herald
City and county governments warn that if Amendment 4 passes next week, shuttered libraries, fired police officers and gutted social services will litter the public landscape.
Power of the Florida court system at center of Amendment 5
By Brittany Alana Davis
Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times Tallahassee Bureau
After years of clashes with the Florida Supreme Court, the Legislature is asking voters for more power over the state’s judicial branch.
Amendment 12: Universities battle over selecting Board of Governors representation
By Tia Mitchell
Tampa Bay Times
Legislators say Amendment 12 is on the ballot because of fairness.
Don't fall victim to Tallahassee's campaign
By Joe Henderson
Tampa Tribune
I try to be a thoughtful guy in all things, but especially on Election Day.
ENVIRONMENT
AND ENERGY
White Springs mayor leads support for water legislation that seeks to protect springs
By Bruce Ritchie
Florida Current
The mayor of White Springs, a north Central Florida town whose namesake springs quit flowing more than two decades ago, is leading an effort behind proposed legislation to restore the Floridan Aquifer to levels before development occurred in Florida.
EDUCATION
Degree Based Tuition
By Whitney Ray
Capitol News Service
Education experts are exploring a plan that could lower the price of college for some students and raise it for others.
Cap 2+2 tuition rates until jobless rate fall, Florida higher education panel says
By Bill Kaczor
Associated Press
Gov. Rick Scott’s higher education task force on Monday tentatively agreed to recommend holding the line on tuition for certain “two-plus-two” students who start at community colleges and then complete their degrees at universities.
State funding remains weak spot in Florida higher ed
Editorial
Tampa Bay Times
A decade after Florida voters decided they wanted a centralized Board of Governors to oversee the state's public universities, Gov. Rick Scott's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Higher Education is poised to recommend to a recalcitrant Legislature to finally let it happen.
Florida's shameful situation on charter schools
Editorial
Bradenton Herald
Plaudits are raining down on Gov. Rick Scott over his new education agenda, unveiled just last week.
JOBS,
BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
Will Sandy wash away resistance to national castrophic insurance?
Editorial
Palm Beach Post
With Hurricane Sandy’s wind field twice as big as Hurricane Wilma’s, and with roughly one-sixth of America potentially at risk, we ask again: How much evidence does Congress need before passing a national disaster insurance plan?
HEALTH
AND SENIORS
Romney's health care plan wrong for many Americans
By Margie Forrest
South Florida Sun Sentinel
I am overwhelmed by pundits and empty political ads that are not really giving Americans the information we need in this presidential election.
Religious exemption at some Florida children's homes shields prying eyes
By Alexandra Zayas
Tampa Bay Times
They shaved him bald that first morning in 2008, put him in an orange jumpsuit and made him exercise past dark.
Foster Kids Turn Up In Unlicensed Facilities
By Regan McCarthy
WFSU Tallahassee
The Florida Department of Children and Families is launching an investigation to figure out how a number of Florida foster children wound up in unlicensed homes.
Fungal meningitis cases rise to 23 in Florida
By Marni Jameson
Orlando Sentinel
The Florida Department of Health today confirmed the 23rd case of fungal meningitis in the state.
CIVIL
RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Smuggling of Brazilians, other migrants growing in South Florida
By Al Chardy
Miami Herald
A Brazilian couple was arraigned in federal court in Miami recently, charged with attempting to smuggle undocumented immigrants aboard boats from the Bahamas.
JUSTICE
AND THE COURTS
Vote 'Yes' for merit retention
By Charlie Crist
Gainesville Sun
Related: On their merits
I voted early and chose, “Yes” to retain the three Florida Supreme Court Justices up for merit retention.
Judge denies gag order in George Zimmerman murder case
By Frances Robles
Miami Herald
George Zimmerman’s defense lawyer can continue his controversial social media and public relations strategy, a judge ruled Monday.
Law governing legal fees unconstitutional, Miami-Dade judge says
By David Ovalle
Miami Herald
A Miami-Dade judge says a law tying legal bills for defending death penalty defendants to annual budgets of state judges is unconstitutional.
Get smarter, save money by executing justice, not people
By Mark Elliott
Orlando Sentinel
Columbia Law School found that Texas probably executed an innocent man, Carlos DeLuna, in 1989.
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