Sen. Arthenia Joyner and a pair of voting-rights organizations have filed an administrative challenge to the state's decision to push ahead with a new elections law in 62 of Florida's 67 counties.
The filing, which the groups announced Monday, is the latest chapter in an ongoing legal saga over who will be allowed to vote in the state's elections and what the rules will be for casting ballots.
Having taught economics at a number of colleges for a number of years, I especially welcomed a feature article in the June 22 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, on how economics courses with the same name can be very different at different colleges.
The next step in Floridas struggle with the federal government over how to find non-U.S. citizens among the list of registered voters will come out later this week.
And that could mean the effort to check for noncitizens is restarted.
But dont expect county elections officials to immediately go along -- at least, not until the state can do a better job of backing up claims that an individual shouldnt be registered as a voter.
Floridas fight against Obamacare isnt over, no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court rules, Gov. Rick Scott reiterated in televised interviews on Monday.
And the Affordable Care Act should be one of the defining issues of this years presidential and other federal elections.
With Chief Justice John Roberts offering the swing vote on the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold most of the Obamacare law, conservatives are throwing jabs at the Republican-appointed chief justice, trying to find bright spots in his ruling.
Ohio has always ranked as one of the biggest prizes in American presidential history. While the Buckeye State continually battles with Virginia in an endless argument over which of them produced more presidents, six presidents -- William Henry Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding -- were based there while two presidents born there -- Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin Harrison -- rose to power from other states.
Think Florida has no connection to the Declaration of Independence? Actually, Florida played a large role in the lives of four of the signers, three of whom celebrated the first Independence Day in Florida on July 4, 1781.
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upholding the Obama administration's health care legislation was a victory for the president, his administration and his party.
Ron Paul isn't going to win the Republican nomination for president. But watch what a stir he and his passionate supporters create in August at the National Convention in Tampa.
