A state wetlands expert reportedly suspended for failing to issue a permit that remains under review, has returned to work following an internal review into her unapproved absence from work.

A new poll of registered voters from Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, shows that Barack Obama holds a small lead over Mitt Romney in Florida.

The poll of voters in the Sunshine State shows Obama taking 50 percent while Romney follows with 46 percent -- just short of the polls margin of error of +/- 3.9 percent. A PPP poll of Florida taken back in April had Obama taking 50 percent and Romney garnering 45 percent.

Raising more Florida money than President Obama and Newt Gingrich combined, Mitt Romney appears to hold a financial advantage heading into the fall election.

The former Republican governor from Massachusetts drummed up $7,829,150 compared with Obama's $5,867,102. Add Gingrich's $1,44,912, and Romney is still the cash king.

The figures, based on Federal Election Commission data available through May 21, show Romney's fundraising machine rolling over Obama in Republican strongholds from Jacksonville to Naples.

The Republican Party of Florida has re-upped its support of the states effort to access a federal database to check the citizenship of registered voters, just as the liberal Moveon.org has targeted Gov. Rick Scott.

Last weeks media bombshell that wed infiltrated the Iranian nuclear program with a super-secret computer virus made it undeniable: Theres been way too much aired about sensitive U.S. operations over the last year or so.

Trailing President Barack Obama among Hispanic voters, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is looking to make up ground by focusing on the Democrat incumbents record on the economy.

Earlier this week, the Romney camp unveiled a Web video responding to an ad from the Obama campaign looking to reach out to Hispanic voters. The ad insists that Hispanics have been badly hurt by the administrations policies.

The Romney camp looked to hone in on that message on Tuesday.

Floridas construction industry is watching intently as the final agreement on the federal transportation bill is being reached.

On the same day that James Ammons, Florida A&M University president, spelled out how to deal with the fallout of a hazing scandal that has rocked the university's band, the chairman of the Florida Board of Governors outlined a series of concerns it wants the school to address in Ammons' next evaluation.

"The Board of Governors remains concerned with the number of serious issues that continue to mount at Florida A&M University," chairman Dean Colson wrote in a letter to Solomon Badger, who chairs the FAMU board.

Among the areas Colson outlined his letter:

In pushing for U.S. military intervention in Syria -- arming the insurgents and using U.S. air power to "create safe zones" for anti-regime forces "inside Syria's borders" -- The Washington Post invokes "vital U.S. interests" that are somehow imperiled there.