Florida Power & Light Co.'s proposed $690 million-a-year rate increase, adding 16 percent to the current base rate, will be vigorously opposed by the Florida Office of Public Counsel and a conservative group.
With a series of nine public hearings set to conclude by month's end, J.R. Kelly sees "no way" FPL's full request is valid, and if past is prologue, the Public Service Commission will chop the utility's rate bid significantly.
In late 2011, prior to the start of this years legislative session, a number ofleaders from the states biggest business lobbying groups -- including the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Florida -- gathered in the Florida Capitol.
The assembly was to stand behind Gov. Rick Scotts call for reform of personal injury protection auto insurance.
The seven bishops based in Florida on Thursday called for Catholics in the Sunshine State to pray and ponder the role of religion in the public square.
The use of a provisional ballot shouldnt be considered a means to deny a voter a chance to cast a ballot, Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday.
Nor, he said, should the voting method be used as a negative in the state-federal fight over Floridas efforts to identify and remove non-U.S. citizens from the list of voters.
Scott says he knows all about provisional ballots because he had to fill one out in the past. Why? Because once when he went to a voting precinct in Collier County, a poll worker informed him he was dead -- officially, anyway.
During her bid to become Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi downplayed talk about her future political ambitions and ripped into her opponents -- Jeff Kottkamp and Holly Benson in the Republican primary and Democrat Dan Gelber in the general election -- as career politicians.
In a ballot initiative that caught the attention of Florida tea party conservatives and low-tax advocates the country over, North Dakota voters on Tuesday said "no" to making their state the first in the nation to end property taxes.
In fact, more than 76 percent of the electorate turned down Measure 2, according to returns from the North Dakota secretary of state.
President Ronald Reagan said it best:Its not that liberals are ignorant, its just that what they know is wrong. And boy, have they got it wrong over this "voter purge" issue.
Federal environmental officials on Wednesday told Florida that a revised state plan to improve water quality in the Everglades meets with Washington's approval, and said it may meet a federal judge's order to clean up the ecosystem.
In notifying the state Department of Environmental Protection that changes made to an earlier plan are satisfactory, the EPA will allow the state and the South Florida Water Management District to move forward with what officials say is a historic plan for the construction of stormwater treatment areas and huge new areas of water storage.
Who does Barack Obama listen to?
