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And ... it's official: Barack Obama wins Florida
By Michael Van Sickler
Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Related: Winners and losers of election in Florida
Four days after Election Day, we have a winner in Florida: President Barack Obama takes all 29 of our electoral votes — not that he needed them.
Voter suppression and Florida’s butterfly effect
By Marc Caputo
Miami Herald
Related column: Once again, Florida’s the national punchline
Edgar Oliva waited to vote at Shenandoah Elementary School and fretted.
Could Democrats tap former Gov. Charlie Crist to unseat Gov. Rick Scott in 2014?
By Mary Ellen Klas
Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times Tallahassee Bureau
President Barack Obama’s narrow victory over Mitt Romney in Florida this week has Democrats eager to seize the momentum to focus on the next hurdle: defeating Republican Gov. Rick Scott.
Dorworth recount headed to manual count today
By Jason Garcia
Orlando Sentinel
Related: Republicans scramble to make Dorworth replacement
The political fate of state Rep. Chris Dorworth, the Lake Mary Republican who once expected to become speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, should be determined once and for all today.
Florida moving to work on implementing health-care law
By Stacey Singer
Palm Beach Post
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, President Barack Obama has won re-election and a majority of Florida voters rejected Amendment 1, the effort to etch into the state constitution a permanent ban on mandatory health insurance.
New allegations surface in case against Jim Greer
By Lucy Morgan
Tampa Bay Times
Allegations of a golf cart filled with prostitutes at a party in the Bahamas surfaced Friday in the criminal case against former Florida GOP Party Chairman Jim Greer.
EDITORIAL
CARTOON OF THE WEEK
By Jim Morin
Miami Herald
Related editorial: Gov. Scott, Legislature are accountable for election fiasco
FLORIDA
POLITICS
Fresh Off Election Day Wins, Dems Look To Keep Momentum Going
By Lynn Hatter
WFSU Tallahassee
Florida Democrats had what may be their best election day in a very long time.
Is Florida U.S. Senator Rubio ready to run for president in 2016?
By Ledyard King
Ft. Myers News-Press
Some Republicans eager to look past Mitt Romney’s defeat are looking to Sen. Marco Rubio.
Obama coattails get partial credit for shift within Florida GOP leadership
By John Kennedy
Palm Beach Post
Ruling Republicans scrambled Friday to recast their lines of House leadership following the apparent defeat of a powerful incumbent in line to become speaker.
Republicans in Florida ignoring the new majority
By Randy Schultz
Palm Beach Post
In 2011, Republicans in the Florida Legislature passed and Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 1355, legislation designed to suppress the votes of minorities, working women and young people.
Campaigns over, Weatherford, Gaetz ponder committees, organization
By Gray Rohrer
Florida Current
Incoming presiding officers Will Weatherford and Don Gaetz are turning their attention to organizing the Legislature after a campaign season that saw Republicans lose a handful of seats in each chamber.
Gov. Scott gets to work on reinventing himself
By Aaron Deslatte
Orlando Sentinel
It's time everyone meet the new Gov. Rick Scott, the softer, family-friendlier version who cares about the poor, public schools and state workers.
Charlie Crist's phone rings: It's Obama
By Tim Nickens
Tampa Bay Times
Charlie Crist was waiting on a call and had to call me back.
POLITICAL
RACES
Gov. Rick Scott defends Florida election as his chief says, 'We could have done better'
By Steve Bousquet
Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
As his top elections official conceded that the state bears responsibility for long lines and late vote counts that have made Florida a target of national ridicule, Gov. Rick Scott on Friday defended the state's handling of the election.
Murphy wins; West supporters skeptical
By Christine Stapleton
Palm Beach Post
At 4:45 a.m. today, after 21-hours of non-stop ballot copying and counting, Democratic candidate Patrick Murphy defeated Republican U.S. Rep. Allen West for the District 18 congressional seat.
Florida's 2012 election mess: Heavy turnout, wordy ballot, fewer early voting days
By Tonya Alanez
South Florida Sun Sentinel
After Election Day, America went to bed — four times — and still the Sunshine State hadn't declared official results.
Voters see through cash and chicanery
By Daniel Ruth
Tampa Bay Times
Perhaps one of the lessons from Tuesday night is that money doesn't buy you love.
'The right thing'
Editorial
Gainesville Sun
In the wake of Florida's endless, inconclusive election, Gov. Rick Scott commented: “Well I'm very comfortable that the right thing happened. We had 4.4 million people vote” early or absentee.
For GOP’s Outside Spending Groups, Poor Returns on Investment
By Ashley Lopez
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Outside spending groups such as super PACs spent millions on this most recent general election, particularly in swing states like Florida.
BALLOT
INITIATIVES
Critics call failed constitutional amendments too conservative, too controversial
By Aaron Deslatte
Orlando Sentinel
From judicial activism to Obamacare, a lot of Florida's conservative heart and soul was on the ballot this year.
Big losers Tuesday: Politicians’ sneaky proposals
Editorial
Palm Beach Post
Floridians’ respect for those who have served in the military is not in doubt on this Veterans Day.
ENVIRONMENT
AND ENERGY
Environmentalists criticize new Florida development rules
By Nick Williams
Bradenton Herald
A Florida bill that amended growth management rules to eliminate duplicative regulations and expedite the permitting process is receiving mixed reviews.
St. Johns River Water Management District shouldn't sell Lake County conservation property
By Lauren Ritchie
Orlando Sentinel
What does "forever" mean? For Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the definition likely won't be the same as yours.
EDUCATION
Scott shows his real priority: tax cuts over schools
Editorial
Palm Beach Post
In his new quest to be hailed as the Education Governor, Rick Scott last week announced in Boca Raton that for next year he intends (drum roll, please) to hold education spending in Florida flat.
School superintendents set sights on red tape
By Travis Pillow
Tallahassee Democrat
A panel of Florida school superintendents appointed by the governor has zeroed in on a list of state regulations they want to see eliminated or changed.
JOBS,
BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
Critics: Florida oversight lax for contractors like LightHouse providing services to the blind
By Brittany Alana Davis
Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Looking for a lesson in how government outsourcing is working in Florida?
HEALTH
AND SENIORS
Time to put health care over politics
Editorial
Tampa Bay Times
Gov. Rick Scott is poised to deny up to a million Floridians health coverage through Medicaid and invite a federal government takeover of what should be a state-controlled health insurance exchange.
A child’s sad death in a Florida nursing home
By Carol Marbin Miller
Miami Herald
For 14 years, Doris Freyre cared for her profoundly disabled daughter in her modest Tampa home, pureeing fresh fruit, yams and vegetables and surrounding the girl with family photos and pictures of angels.
Health officials developing new TB list
By James Call
Florida Current
Florida Health officials said Friday that this week there were no new reports of a strain of tuberculosis linked to 13 deaths.
Medicare initiative puts pressure on hospitals and patients
By Barbara Peters Smith
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Coughing and barely able to speak, the 99-year-old patient reached Sarasota Memorial Hospital's emergency room by ambulance on a Tuesday morning in June.
CIVIL
RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Recounting the deadly hazing that destroyed FAMU band's reputation
By Ben Montgomery
Tampa Bay Times
The young man stood at the front of Bus C, his ribs rising and falling with each breath.
Florida group pushes for more alimony reform
By Ana Veciana-Suarez
Miami Herald
Debbie Leff Israel, the Weston woman who helped start the Florida Second Wives Club, won’t marry her fiancée because her salary can be used to recalculate what he pays to support his ex-wife.
At least don’t make “stand your ground” law worse
Editorial
Palm Beach Post
The task force studying Florida’s “stand your ground” law didn’t go into hiding during the election. It just seemed that way.
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