Gov. Rick Scott has tapped Rep. Dana Young, R-Tampa, to be his designee on the Florida Defense Support Task Force.

The task force is an entity Scott and the Legislature formed to preserve, protect and enhance Florida's military missions and installations.

Heads still in the clouds, the high-flying Florida Gold Coast University Eagles basketball team will stop in for a look at the Florida Legislature sometime before the current session ends.

If they can work out scheduling arrangements and accept the invitation.

What a shame to see the Internet sweepstakes cafe bill go to the governor with harmless senior arcades attached.

And why? Because the pari-mutuels want it all. Because at the eleventh hour, their lobbyists convinced gaming committee members that senior arcades were no different from Internet cafes. Presumably now, they believe, seniors will hobble into track casinos and play slot machines instead -- given that their arcades are standing empty.

This is crazy.

Tallahassee reporter/videographer Dave Heller reports this:

TheFlorida Senate on Thursday unanimouslypassed a bill that would require insurance companies to charge the same price for IV andoral cancerdrugs.

Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers, made an emotional appeal to her colleagues to pass the legislation.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said in an Easter morning statement that he won't be rushed to agree on immigration reform, in spite of the reports that the entire bipartisan group of eight senators are good to go with their legislative proposal.

Rubio headlines his statement, "No final agreement on immigration legislation yet."

The following was written and submitted by freelance reporter/videographer Dave Heller:

Florida is moving to prevent some mentally ill people from buying guns.

A House committee passed a bill Thursday that would ban gun purchases by anyone who has been committed to a mental institution.

Currently, theres a loophole in state law that allows mentally ill people to voluntarily commit themselves to a mental health treatment facility and then be able to buy a gun when they check out.

According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, environmentalists -- who had said they agreed with the states new Everglades cleanup plan that was passed unanimously by the Florida House Friday -- made a request in federal court Monday to continue to have a federal judge meddle, and have the ultimate say, in Floridas business.

Marco Rubio and Rand Paul are more than charismatic risk-takers who handle the media with skill and confidence and want to be president.

Sen. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, issued a statement Monday announcing that the Florida Senate has recommended an additional $200,000 to fund University of South Florida research at the former Dozier School for Boys.

On March 12, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a petition seeking a court order to exhume bodies at what has already become one of Florida's darkest shadows, the Dozier School for Boys. The Panhandle reform school closed in 2011.