As Floridas Joint Legislative Budget Commission (LBC) prepares to meet Wednesday to consider a proposal to privatize prison health services, an attorney representing public-sector unions vows the state should be prepared for another lawsuit if approval of the proposal is forthcoming.

Well be moving promptly, said attorney Tom Brooks, one of the lawyers representing the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), at a press conference Tuesday morning. The [Department of Corrections] actions will be challenged.

Gov. Rick Scott has ordered U.S. and state flags lowered to half-staff today outside all local and state buildings and grounds in Florida to mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

Scott and first lady Ann Scott will attend a 9/11 remembrance ceremony Tuesday afternoon at Boca Raton High School.

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putman called Sept. 11, 2001, a defining moment in our nations history.

Unexpectedly weak job growth was not the most troubling part of the August jobs report. Nor was the drop in wages, painful as it is. The most daunting aspect is the continued drop in labor-force participation.

Former Republican lawmaker Nancy Argenziano was foiled this year in her attempt to run for Congress as a Democrat.

But now running as an independent for a state House seat in Citrus and Hernando counties, the outspoken -- and often controversial -- Argenziano has received the backing of the Florida Democratic Party as it tries to knock out a Republican incumbent.

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Gov. Rick Scott has given the latest signal that he isnt done with efforts to overhaul education in Florida.

And he has expanded upon prior comments regarding his questioning of the FCATs, saying that any annual testing of students should have a purpose.

You dont just measure and do a test, you have got to do a test that has a purpose, where you get a result you can do something about, and it impacts what youre trying to do, Scott told reporters Monday outside the Capitol.

If Gov. Rick Scott is hot and bothered at the prospect of a Democratic challenge from Republican-turned-independent former Gov. Charlie Crist, he isn't saying.

Speaking to reporters outside the Capitol on Monday, Scott responded to the speculation of Crist running for the governors mansion in 2014 by first giving a sigh regarding the line of questioning before saying he intended to concentrate on his job.

The consensus on Barack Obama's acceptance speech Thursday night, and in effect on the Democratic National Convention as a whole, is that it was a bust.