Miami Dolphins management on Monday trumpeted the team's $400 million quest to renovate Sun Life Stadium, and while they say they'll pay for most of it, they will ask for some state help.

Dolphins CEO Mike Dee said the team will ask lawmakers to provide a $3 million a year tax rebate on sales of merchandise at the stadium, in Miami Gardens north of the city. Team officials said they will also ask the Legislature to pass a bill that would allow Miami-Dade County to raise its tourist bed tax from 6 percent to 7 percent on mainland hotels in Miami.

In the 20th century, only two presidents shaped new governing coalitions that outlasted them. They were the only two men to appear on five national tickets.

Are Florida's leaders taking the state in the right direction?Grover Norquist, head of the Washington-based anti-tax lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform, answers that question in a single word: "Absolutely."

But, he cautions, watch out, Florida: "Other conservative states are giving you some competition."

Proposals to give elections supervisors a little more flexibility on where early voting could be held, or if polls should be opened the day before a general election, got plenty of Senate support on Monday.

But members of the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee are more divided when it comes to limiting their say, something Gov. Rick Scott has suggested.

Gov. Rick Scott continued his push to upgrade Floridas port system by calling for $38 million in state and local money to be pumped into JaxPort to attract larger cargo ships.

The money would complete the second phase of the TraPac Container Terminal project, allowing the Jacksonville Port Authority to fix the navigational problems in the St. Johns River at Mile Point.

Floridas ports are critical to providing jobs for Florida families -- and we can no longer wait on the federal government to fund such an important project, Scott stated in a release.

With some voters waiting in line up to seven hours to cast their ballots -- in one Democratic-leaning county they were urged out by late weekend robocalls -- county elections supervisors suggested that a 60- to 90-minute maximum wait-time could be more acceptable in the future.

Appearing before the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee, a number of county supervisors said its difficult to put an arbitrary, acceptable duration on the voting experience.

Sorry, anthropology defenders, but Gov. Rick Scott was right 15 months ago about the college degrees needed in the 21st century marketplace. And he's so right today.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Miami, in releasing a pseudo-amnesty plan that would give about 11 million people currently living illegally in the country a chance to obtain legal residency, told The Wall Street Journal the proposal is not blanket amnesty or a special pathway to citizenship.

The proposal offered by Rubio -- who has previously spoken in favor of reforming the nations immigration policy as a counter to the DREAM Act -- is designed to help the nation attract skilled workers and maintain its agricultural base.