Adam Putnam-for-Governor hopefuls probably should wrap it up for this cycle. The popular Republican secretary of agriculture and consumer services quietly filed for reelection on Monday. Putnam already has attracted Democratic opposition -- Thad Hamilton, who served on the Broward Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors.

Allison McCoy, senior vice president of marketing for Spectrum Gaming Group, described her company's mission at the Florida Gaming Congress in February. She told Sunshine State News, "Our job is to tell people not what they want to hear but what they need to know." Now Spectrum will be telling Florida what it needs to know about its gaming future -- officially.

Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, one of the Sunshine State's most staunchly conservative legislators, has endorsed Northwest Florida Tea Party presidentMike Hill for state representative in the District 2 Special Election. "Mike Hill has the core convictions needed to meet the moral imperative we have to protect faith, family, freedom, and opportunity for the next generation," Baxley said in a statement Tuesday announcing his endorsement. "We need him in the Florida House."

Adam Johnson, son-in-law of Rep. Gayle Harrell, R-Port St. Lucie, has been awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for "The Orphan Master's Son," a novel about North Korea.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued a statement Monday following the marathon finish-line bombings in Boston: "Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Boston. I've asked the Florida Division of Emergency Management to be on standby to provide any assistance needed to help first responders on the ground in Boston.The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also stands ready to provide any support services needed."

The Florida Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Monday a bill requiring doctors to provide medical care to infants born alive during botched abortion procedures. SB 1636 (Infants Born Alive), sponsored by Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, now makes its way to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The House counterpart, Rep. Cary Pigman's HB 1129, is on its second reading before that chamber.

Flamboyant Democrat Alan Grayson took to the airwaves in 2010 to knock Grover Norquist all over the neighborhood for his Taxpayer Protection Pledge, but now look: Grayson is teaming with a left-wing compadre in California, Mark Takano, to sign up members of Congress on an Norquist-imitation pledge of their own.

Gov. Rick Scott signed into law 19 bills on Wednesday. The governor's office provided the following list:

Tallahassee civil litigator Brian Hayden has been appointed to the Leon County Development Support and Environmental Management Citizens User Group, which makes recommendations to county commissioners about growth management measures and issues concerning planning, development review and environmental compliance. Hayden, of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, has represented clients before the Florida Commission on Ethics and the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings. He will now join the 14-member county committee.

Florida Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, Thursday explained the $74.3 billion state budget that was unanimously passed out of the chamber on Wednesday.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Friday will confirm what all of Gator Nation already knows: Tim Tebow is a Great Floridian. The governor will present the Heisman-winning, national-championship winning, former University of Florida quarterback with the "Great Floridian" award in Ponte Vedra Beach, where Tebow took his high school team to a state championship.

Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation banning Internet cafes in Florida Wednesday. The Legislature did the right thing to crack down on illegal gaming operators," Scott said. "We look forward to turning our focus back on jobs and education in this session.

Does Gov. Rick Scott think "the Legislature did the right thing"? Oh, I think he does. Six is enough, Governor. You said it SIX TIMES ... in the course of a two-minute press gaggle! Check it out. In case no one else is telling you, you really do need to elevate your off-the-cuff schtick before you travel much further down the campaign trail.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing for NASA to revisit the Moon and establish a presence on it. U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, who represents Floridas CD 8, has joined with eight colleagues to introduce the RE-asserting American Leadership in Space Act (REAL Space Act), which directs the space agency to engage in human space flights to the Moon and establish a presence there by 2022.

Senators have reached a compromise to close the gun-show loophole and expand background checks for gun buyers, a move that could breath life into Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's gun-control legislation.