For the nearly two years Ken Pruitt was president of the Florida Senate, when most of the press labored to ignore his statesmanship, Don Gaetz was paying close attention. He admired the Port St. Lucie Republican's leadership style and said so Tuesday.

In fact, he said he wants to be president the Ken Pruitt way when he takes over officially next month.

"Ken Pruitt is one of my heroes," Gaetz told members of the Tallahassee press corps during an informal luncheon in the Capitol.

Attorney Alan Orantes Forst spoke for many who attended Monday nights panel discussion hosted by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, the nations premier fellowship for conservative and libertarian lawyers and law students.

Thank you to the Federalist Society for having a balanced panel with a diversity of opinions, an educational effort that did not cost us $300,000, he exclaimed. It may be the first time in state history that were having a discussion about this.

DALLAS -- In the 1920s, in the wee small hours of the mornings, employees at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas sang while they worked.