The first National Medical Students for Life of America (Med SFLA) Bioethics Symposium and Tour will visit Florida State University College of Medicine Friday. Organizers did not provide a starting time for the event.

Dominique Monlezun, national coordinator for Medical Students for Life, will be speaking with Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortion provider and founder of the pro-life Tepeyac Family Center in Virginia. He is recognized as one of the nations foremost medical experts on pro-life health care.

Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, one of Gov. Rick Scott's earliest supporters, released a statement just after midday Wednesday expressing her disappointment in Scott's rejection of the federal government's $2.4 billion in high-speed rail stimulus money. The following is Dockery's full statement:

Together again.

Look for two of Florida's most recent formers, Gov. Charlie Crist and CFO Alex Sink, on the front steps of the Old State Capitol at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Appearing on CNN News Tuesday morning, Gov. Rick Scott described his "jobs budget" to a national audience. It's a budget, he said, that calls for more than $5 billion in spending cuts and returns $2 billion to taxpayers.

For Floridians who paid attention to Monday's budget unveiling at a tea party event in Eustis, the governor didn't say much new.

CNN News anchor C.J. Holmes pressed Scott on the dichotomy of a governor calling himself a "jobs governor" yet slashing 8,700 jobs from the state payroll.

A 47-year-old University of Massachusetts student who said he believed Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart, was trying to abolish the 14th Amendment was arrested late Monday in Northampton, Mass., for threatening the life of Snyder and his family. The e-mailed threat came an hour after the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Arizona that left six people dead and 13 wounded, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Across all 50 states the only self-financed politician to run for a major office and win is Rick Scott.

Scott nearly didn't. His victory in the Florida gubernatorial race cost him $75 million and still boiled down to only a 1 percent, down-to-the-wire squeaker.

But his accomplishment was some incredible feat considering other well-heeled candidates who paid their own way:

Here's a turnaround.

Where the Republican Party of Florida elected traditional insider Dave Bitner as its chairman two weeks ago, three of four states voting for GOP chairmen Saturday went instead for tea party candidates.

Compare Bitner, a Jefferson County state committeeman who served as the District 71 state representative from 19922000, with these three tea partiers:

President Barack Obama apparently has no intention of listening to 2010's victorious Republicans in Congress who continue to call for dramatic budget cuts.

A story in Saturday's Wall Street Journal by Damian Paletta, Jonathan Weisman and Laura Meckler reports Obama is going to drop a spending-spree bombshell on the American public in Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

Gov. Rick Scott released a statement Thursday night on the shooting death of two Miami policemen. Said the governor:

Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers reports Tuesday that law enforcement agencies are investigating an threat e-mailed to state Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart, author of an Arizona-like immigration bill that he has yet to file. The threat came to Snyder's Stuart legislative office an hour after the mass fatal shooting in Arizona that also left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords with a critical head wound.