Allow me to share with you an e-mail Communications Director Joe Follick fired out to Department of Children and Families' employees Thursday:

DCF Colleagues,

Starting tomorrow, video news clips featuring Department activity will be
available on DCFs main Intranet site. These clips will be located under
the Department News and Events.

The clips will be updated regularly by the Office of Communications and
will include news stories featuring our employees and our public service.

A Central Florida survey of 1,200 businesses and 100 government officials call it a split decision on the governor's usefulness to the economy in the middle of the state.

Gov. Rick Scott is either the carpenter building Florida's economic recovery hopes or the wrecking ball pounding them into the ground.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has chosen to high-profile affirmation of his strong policy positions, and not only did the Miami Republican give an in-depth nationally televised interview to ABC News this week, but he delivered a no-nonsense oped column in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.

Here are excerpts from the column he titles, "Why I Won't Vote to Raise the Debt Limit":

Get ready for it.

Marco Rubio has given his first national interview since being elected, talking about his political plans, Libya, Barack Obama's effectiveness as a president and the always-fertile-conversation-maker -- the birther movement.

Maybe when Gov. Rick Scott sees Joel Engelhardt's compelling story in Sunday's Palm Beach Post, he'll stop sitting on his hands and make those five new appointments to the South Florida Water Management District board. God knows, the whole place needs a good scrubbing.

House members, business leaders, governor's office representatives and Florida Department of Environmental Protection staff were in conference much of early Friday -- not arguing over why the governor won't support HB 239, participants insist, but working to tweak the bill's language so it won't harm the state lawsuit against EPA. The governor's nonsupport was rumored earlier.

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday announced the appointment of Anthony Tony Tatti, 49, of Ocala to the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court. Tatti will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Stephen O. Rushing.

Politico.com's David Catanese reported Friday that Connie Mack kept even his closest allies guessing on the will-he-run question -- and guessing wrongly. Even Mack's home county Lee County chairman Gary Lee called just before Mack's announcement to tell Politico, "It's a go. All signs have indicated a green light ... the same place as his Dad announced for the Senate."

Vice President Joe Biden is here in Florida Wednesday with his begging cup, trying to rev up fund-raising for Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. Republican candidates after Nelson's job are coming out of the woodwork. Who are they? Mike Haridopolos, Adam Hasner and George LeMieux are the most prominent.

Biden went to the Winter Park home of developer Alan Ginsburg during lunchtime and next he'll be in Tampa. It's a full-schedule-in-Florida day for the veep.

With her children at her side, screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from congestive heart failure. She was 79.

Taylor, first a child actress, appeared in more than 50 films, winning Oscars for her performances in "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"