Could Everglades restoration get any more botched up?

Congress reconvenes for the second leg of its lame-duck session on Monday with a long to-do list. As with any to-do list come dates by which the chores need to be completed.

NEW YORK -- In a political culture where moderation is the new heresy, centrism is fast becoming the new black.

PILL MILL CHECKS
New rules aimed at cracking down on pill mill prescription drug clinics that were set to go into effect Thanksgiving weekend wont, because legislators passed a new law requiring legislative approval of certain expensive new regulations, including the prescription drug rules.

We won't be able to say we weren't warned. Continued huge federal budget deficits will eventually mean huge increases in government borrowing costs, Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of Barack Obama's deficit reduction commission, predicted this month. "The markets will come. They will be swift, and they will be severe, and this country will never be the same."

BP claims administrator Ken Feinberg last Wednesday released the set of protocols for final payment of damages following a deluge of last-minute emergency claims that came in prior to the Nov. 23 deadline.

When Gov.-elect Rick Scott unveiled his economic plan on the campaign trail this summer, there was a portion that caught many law enforcement professionals by surprise: a proposed $1 billion cut to the states corrections budget.

Enough of the bellyaching. All this grousing about the lousy economy is just bad form on Thanksgiving.