With its policy count near 1.5 million and growing, officials of the state-backed property insurer went to Tampa Friday to get ideas on how to reduce its exposure and send customers back to the private market.
They found out from industry representatives that the goal is laudable, but also a tall order.
With qualifying set for next week, the election-year scramble by politicians to decide what office they're actually going to seek kicked into high gear this week.
At the same time, a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice moved to try to make clear what was necessary for groups registering the voters who will choose between those candidates -- and whether some already-registered voters could remain on the rolls.
Secretary of State Ken Detzner defended efforts to remove noncitizens from the lists of Florida registered voters in the wake of the U.S. Department of Justice questioning the legality of the process.
As Floridas chief elections officer, I am committed to ensuring the accuracy of Floridas voter rolls and the integrity of our elections. It is my duty to protect the right of all eligible voters who are able to participate in the process, Detzner stated in a release Friday.
After Mike Haridopolos, Adam Hasner and Jeff Atwater successively bowed out of the GOP race for U.S. Senate, ex-U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon says he is taking his turn as the "authentic conservative."
In an exclusive interview with Sunshine State News, the former seven-term Republican congressman and currentphysician specializing in internal medicine acknowledges his late entry presents an uphill challenge.
"I thought Haridopolos would have made a great senator," Weldon said of his fellow Melbourne-area resident.
Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente may have gotten a bit more than she bargained for at Temple Emeth last month.
Its one of the clearest, easiest-to-understand provisions in the Constitution. And Harry Reids Senate flouts it routinely.
Despite voter-approved changes to the way Floridas legislative and congressional districts were redrawn, the makeup isnt showing much of a shake-up as the election cycle formally kicks into gear next week.
The official qualifying period for the 2012 legislative races runs from noon Monday to noon on Friday, June 8, but the gates have already been filling up.
An early offshoot of the makeup of the candidates is that the 2016 Senate president aspiration of Sen. Jack Latvala, R-St. Petersburg, may be a little shaky.
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up.
Nosir,
NotI,
Not me,
So there!
-- "Peter Pan" the musical, 1954
