It's bad enough when American tax dollars are blown on government-created debacles such as Solyndra and "Operation Fast and Furious."

Three months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin.

Insurance regulators have been working for a couple of weeks to fix glitches in the states reformed auto insurance law the same glitches a Democratic lawmaker pointed out to the governor in a letter on Monday.

The state Agency for Health Care Administration, which oversees licensing medical providers to provide PIP coverage, released a three-page memo earlier this month that acknowledged the mistake and -- in the view of the agency -- has deemed the later date as the start date.

The changes on paper become law July 1.

In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies.

There is no task force looking at Florida's minimum mandatory sentences and in all probability, none is coming. What a travesty.

Incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chris Smith ratcheted up criticism of Florida's Stand Your Ground law Friday, pointing to a loophole that could endanger some women, rather than protect them.

Smith's remarks came in response to a recent case in which a Jacksonville woman was sentenced in a domestic assault case.

Smith said the law which allows people to shoot back when threatened without a duty to retreat could actually end up making domestic violence victims more vulnerable.

Gov. Rick Scott has spent the past several months talking about two big issues: adding jobs and bolstering the public-education system.

So Scott could preen a little Friday when new figures showed the state's unemployment rate had dropped to 8.7 percent in April, down 0.3 percentage points from March and 1.9 points from April 2011.

A recent report by The Bond Buyer indicated that officials at the Port of Los Angeles are concerned that ports along the East and Gulf coasts will become bigger competitors for cargo as the Panama Canal expansion nears completion.

The May 18 report by the daily finance newspaper, titled Panama Expansion May Help Competing Ports Topple L.A. From its No. 1 Position, quickly found its way via email into Gov. Rick Scotts office.

Rep. Vern Buchanan lives in a world where you're guilty until proven innocent. And with the help of a muckraking press, Democrats are hoping they can finally knock out the three-term congressman with a campaign that remains long on smoke and short on fire.

Buchanan, R-Sarasota, has had a giant target on his back since 2006, when he narrowly beat Christine Jennings in an election that was as closely and hotly contested as Bush vs. Gore six years earlier.