Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has released the Final Report of her Statewide Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns; the report contains the task force'sfindings and policy recommendations.

Florida House Democratic Leader Perry Thurston, D-Plantation, issued the following statement responding to Secretary of State Ken Detzners recommendations to improve Floridas election laws:

The Tallahassee Democrat reports that the Florida Department of Corrections is announcing this morning that the state's recidivism rate droppedby 4.9 percent last year, saving taxpayers $44 million.

If President Obama was expecting religious conservatives to be satisfied with his proposed expansion of the religious exemptions to his executive mandate that employers subsidize their workers' contraceptives and abortifacients, he seems bound to be sorely disappointed, if the initial reactions reported by FOX News and the Associated Press are any indication.

But how are Florida's conservative, pro-life leaders reacting to this latest development?

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced that Titilayo Osholaja Dokun, owner of Capital City Area Care, a Leon County Medicaid home services company, was sentenced today to eight years in state prison for submitting more than $100,000 in false claims to the Florida Medicaid Program. Dokun was convicted last December on four counts of Medicaid provider fraud and grand theft.

Sandy D'Alemberte, former president of both the American Bar Association and Florida State University, and one of the eight plaintiffs in the landmark case Bob Graham v. Mike Haridopolos, has shared with Sunshine State News his reaction to yesterday's Florida Supreme Court decision, which ruled that it is the Legislature, not the state university system Board of Governors, that has authority to set tuition policy:

FOX News reports the Obama administration has announced a broader religious employer opt-out of its controversial contraception-abortifacient mandate.

It's probably not what legislators have in mind when they refer to education reform.

The Daily Caller reports that a public middle school teacher in Brandon is on paid leave while she's being investigated for allegedly using sandpaper to punish students who misspelled words.

In a landmark ruling Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court decided that the Legislature, not the Board of Governors, has the right to set the tuition policy of state colleges and universities. How are the case's chief plaintiff and defendant reacting to the ruling?

The Florida Supreme Court has just published its ruling inBob Graham v. Mike Haridopolos, confirming that it is the Legislature that has the soleprerogativeto determine tuition costs in state universities.

Former Democratic governor Bob Graham and others argued that the authority to set tuition rates instead lay with the Florida Board of Governors.

The Supreme Court's ruling was a unanimous one, with the opinion authored by Justice Barbara Pariente.