Is mass migration from Mexico to the United States a thing of the past?

Some of the folks who know Charlie Crist and his uber-attorney employer John Morgan best say Florida is about to find out what makes their relationship tick.

It isn't, it never was, personal-injury law.

"I'll tell you what it is," said Washington, D.C., attorney Phillip A. Harris, who claims he worked briefly with both men. "It's all about ambition and a love of power. This is a real symbiotic friendship these two men have.

It's official. Rick Scott is the best governor in the nation.

Responding to the unanimous request of Florida's 31 early learning coalitions, Gov. Rick Scott announced earlier this month that recent controversial changes to the funding formula for the state's subsidized school readiness programs would be frozen and reviewed.

In a letter to Roseann Fricks, chair of the Association of Early Learning Coalitions, Scott said he had asked the state Office of Early Learning to establish a work group of lawmakers, coalitions, child care providers and local governments to "gather input and refine a funding formula" by Jan. 1, 2014.

Besides revelry, this new year will ring in $500 billion in tax hikes and $110 billion in spending cuts unless Congress and the president can come together to steer clear of the "fiscal cliff" beforehand.