Before heading across the ocean this weekend, Gov. Rick Scott said talks are under way with state and local education leaders about revamping the dreaded-by-some Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, better known as the FCAT.
Without offering specifics, Scott said students may face too much testing and the tests will change.
But opponents of the test shouldnt expect the exams to go away.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, announced during the weekend that he will speak at a rally his presidential campaign is holding before the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
However, he will not appear at the Paul Festival, another Tampa event organized by the congressmans supporters but not authorized by his campaign. That one will feature speakers and artists.
Paul announced that he will speak at the rally, scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 26 at the University of South Floridas Sundome.
Generally, Im against oppression. But there is one minority group in America that probably deserves to be oppressed: liberals.
CAMDEN -- South Carolina politics never fails to amuse -- and bemuse.
Jeff Atwater was elected Floridas chief financial officer in 2010, after serving as Senate president the previous two years. He'd been elected to the state House of Representatives in 2000 and to the Senate in 2002. His district included Palm Beach and Broward counties. A self-described community banker for 25 years, Atwater was elected to the North Palm Beach Village Council in 1993.
The United States turned 236 years old this week and Americans celebrated the founding of a nation, an annual summer hiatus that translated into a slow week in Florida's capital city.
But the week was not totally relegated to barbecues and corn on the cob, producing some fireworks as the debate over Obamacare continued and the courts weighed in on a host of issues from guns to insurance.
OBAMACARE: WEEK 1
Rick Scott should appeal U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke's permanent injunction against Florida's Firearms Owners' Privacy Act.
Even though the GOP has not assembled yet to nominate its presidential candidate, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the defending champion of the Iowa Republican caucus, is heading back to the Hawkeye State.
Unemployment in the U.S. remained at 8.2 percent, the nation added 80,000 jobs in June, far below the number hoped-for to significantly reduce the backlog of nearly 13 million unemployed.
Gov. Rick Scott
It will be nice when we get below the national average, because 18 months ago when I took office we were the highest in the country.
U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta
