Gov. Rick Scott posted a photo of himself on Facebook welcoming visitors to Hillsborough River State Park on Thursday as he began his 11th Work Day.

Warning signs to President Barack Obama and his re-election campaign team are coming in the form of the latest CBS/New York Times survey and Americans' souring perception of the state of the country's economy. The poll reveals that belief that the economy is getting better among registered voters nationwide has dropped by almost a third since April, falling from 33 percent to a dire 24 percent. Seven in 10 Americans now say the economy is in bad shape.

A Jacksonville company has been ordered to pay more than $730,000 in a bogus alcoholism cure scheme, according to the attorney generals office. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday obtaining a court order to require the Alcoholism Cure Corp. to pay more than $730,000 to consumers and from continuing to sell their treatments. According to the complaint, the company prescribed dietary supplements through memberships for about $350, with the pitch that they could cancel the membership at any time.

The Republican leadership in the Florida Senate rallied behind former Senate President Tom Lee on Thursday as he seeks to return to Tallahassee. Lee faces Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Tampa, in the Republican primary on Aug. 14 for the seat currently held by Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Brandon, who is running for Hillsborough County property appraiser.

A study needed to bring larger ships into JaxPort may be moved up a year -- from 2014 to April 2013 --according to the Florida Times-Union. The news, timed to create a positive atmosphere among business leaders in the northeast city for President Obamas campaign visit, would advance a $1.4 million Army Corps of Engineers study on deepening the channel. The Jacksonville Port Authority and other port advocates have been pushing to upgrade facilities to handle increasing global maritime trade and the ongoing widening of the Panama Canal.

While many in Florida's Capitol press corps chatter incessantly about Gov. Rick Scott's favorability ratings -- using terms like "the worst" and "awful" -- they might want to sharpen those media pencils and take note of President Barack Obama's latest standing in this week's CBS/New York Times poll.

While Democrats in Florida continue to look for ways to cash in on Rick Scott's low approval numbers, since Saturday a lot of folks in D.C. are looking at the Florida governor with a whole lot more admiration and respect than he's getting currently in the Sunshine State. It's his travel philosophy they like. And it's President Obama's that has these folks pitching fits. Seems last Saturday President Obama commissioned Air Force One to travel 90 miles from the White House to a campaign rally near Richmond, Va., a location only 90 miles away.

Gov. Rick Scott appointed Jeffrey L. Oody, the president of Community State Bank, to the Santa Fe College District board of trustees. Oody, 43, of Starke, is an alumnus of the community college, earning his bachelors later from the University of North Florida and a master's in business administration from Liberty University. He succeeds Richard C. Solze. The appointment, which requires Florida Senate confirmation, runs through May 31, 2014.

Gov. Rick Scott will spend Thursday as a park ranger in Hillsborough County, as well as carrying out other state park duties, as part of his continuing Lets Get to Work Day series. The 11th Work Day will have Scott working the front gate at Hillsborough River State Park in Thonotosassa, as well as conducting landscaping maintenance, checking campgrounds, working as a concession server and offering a tour of Fort Foster.

Will New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie come to Florida to deliver the keynote address at next month's Republican National Convention?

In his battle against former Rep. Aaron Bean for the Republican nomination for a seat in the Florida Senate representing parts of the First Coast, Rep. Mike Weinstein, R-Jacksonville, garnered a major endorsement on Wednesday, as well, when the Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police announced it was backing him.

Tom Slade, the former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), announced on Wednesday that he is backing former Rep. Aaron Bean over Rep. Mike Weinstein, R-Jacksonville, in the Aug. 14 Republican primary for the open Florida Senate seat that represents all of Nassau and parts of Duval County.

Public health officials from the federal government, the state and for the city of Jacksonville said Monday they're going to test the entire homeless population in Duval County for tuberculosis. It's the best way to minimize the spread of the disease, they said.

For those from the Mid-Atlantic region, Wawa is coming to Florida. The convenience store chain -- which draws it name from the Ojibwe word for the Canada Goose -- will open its first Sunshine State location on Wednesday in Orlando along Central Parkway and International Drive, near SeaWorld.

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered state and national flags lowered to half-staff for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ricardo Ricky Seija on Wednesday outside the Hillsborough County Courthouse, Tampa City Hall and at the Capitol in Tallahassee. Seija, 31, of Tampa, was one of six soldiers killed July 9 when a roadside bomb hit an armored vehicle in the Warkdak Province, Afghanistan. Seija was assigned to the 978th Military Police Company, 93rd Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, III Corps, Fort Bliss, Texas.