It may be a mans world, but thats no excuse for a guy who buys ink by the barrel to splatter it on the reputations of three esteemed women in Florida journalism.

After a tumultuous start of the session, a landmark Everglades bill that will fund the "last act" of a 20-year restoration effort unanimously passed the Florida House Friday, thanks to bipartisan support and a groundbreaking compromise reached between farmers and environmental activist groups earlier in the week.

Rep. Matt Caldwell, sponsor of what he deemed "the last act" to finish restoring the Everglades, successfully shepherded the legislation, which updates the Everglades Forever Act to reflect a new $880 million state and federal agreement.

Gov. Rick Scott's former top attorney has quietly withdrawn his application for a seat on Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal, but only after two prominent liberal trial lawyers challenged his qualifications in emails to the Judicial Nominating Commission.

Gov. Rick Scott is raking in compliments from the Jewish community at home and abroad this week after he indirectly invested $100,000 into the creation of a Florida international economic development office in Tel Aviv.

It was made possible, he said, through this year's "Florida Families First" budget and Enterprise Florida.