Visit Florida, the state's public-private marketing corporation, has started offering any tourism business a free listing on its Web site, billed as the nation's top destination marketing Web site. Before the Friday announcement, Visit Florida's listings werefree only for its 34,000 partners.

Attorney General Bill McCollum's campaign team just released a memo revealing details on debates with Rick Scott -- McCollum's main rival for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

Likely Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubios campaign team continues to attack Gov. Charlie Crist for calling a special session of the Legislature to forward a proposed constitutional amendment to Florida voters banning oil drilling in state waters.

Charlie Crist might want to ask himself if the benefits outweigh the costs when it comes to his oil-disaster response. He's being criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for limiting the special session to only focusing on a constitutional ban on oil drilling.

The fact is, it's already illegal to drill for oil off Florida's coast (something Crist himself admitted in an interview on Fox News). Even if the ban had been in place before April, it wouldn't have done anything to prevent the BP oil disaster.

With basketball superstar LeBron James announcing on Thursday night that he would join fellow free agents Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in signing with the Miami Heat, Floridians are rolling out the red carpet.

Christina De Nicola over at Bleacher Report compiled a list of 10 ways the James signing will impact Miami and its economy.

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the leading Republican candidate in the race for the U.S. Senate, is celebrating the fact that his campaign has more followers on Facebook than the Democratic National Committee -- or any other candidate across the nation running for theSenate.

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Nan Rich, D-Sunrise, announced she is backing Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, for attorney general over another member of her caucus, Sen. Dave Aronberg of Greenacres.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greenes campaign team is taking aim at Gov. Charlie Crist and oil drilling as well as the rest of the field in the race.

While Gov. Charlie Crist said when he announced a special session of the Legislature that the only topic covered would be a proposed constitutional amendment against oil drilling in state waters, one House Democrat hopes to add other topics to the agenda. Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahassee -- who is under fire from primary rival former Leon County Democratic Party chairman Rick Minor for her votes on drilling -- is calling for renewing solar incentives and pushing alternative energies -- something she pushed for ina conference in Tallahassee last month.

The Florida Chamber of Commerce made its first endorsement for statewide office this election cycle on Thursday afternoon backing U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, the Republican candidate running to be the next state agriculture and consumer services commissioner.

Congressman Putnam has been a longtime proponent of greater government efficiency and a careful steward of taxpayer dollars, said Steve Halverson, board chairman of the chamber. I am confident that he will bring that same common-sense leadership to the Florida Cabinet.