A second attempt by the Department of Education to acquire testing items as part of a Race to the Top grant award has sparked a new legal battle among the agency and three of the companies involved in the bidding.
At stake: A contract potentially worth tens of millions of dollars that is already the subject of one bid challenge, prompting the department's second attempt.
One of the last bills signed by Gov. Rick Scott out of the 2012 legislative session was among his and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwaters primary targets in the session: slowing the rapid rise of the most affordable auto insurance in Florida.
Scott, in a signing ceremony Friday at the Florida State College, Law Enforcement Training/Criminal Justice Center in Jacksonville, placed his name to HB 119, a final-night-of-the-session, Senate-dominated revamping of the no-fault personal injury protection coverage.
Its no secret that the U.S. Postal Service is in financial trouble. Its business is shrinking, with first-class mail revenue down 25 percent since 2006. It has lost $25 billion in the last five years.
A Michigan-based information technology company expected to hire 190 over the next four years is on its way to Floridas Space Coast, the governors office announced Friday.
BlueWare Inc., a software company, is relocating to Melbourne, where it will be developing and writing software, document scanning and developing in the areas of robotics, nanotechnology and genomics, as they apply to a patients medical records.
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, seeking to take on U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Orlando, in November, continued to press the Keystone XL Pipeline issue against the incumbent, as a new application was filed for the political hot potato on Friday.
We know it will bring more oil to the United States; instead of buying it from Hugo Chavez and dictators and thugocrats around the world, we can buy it from a friend, Mack said outside a Shell gas station along the southern arc of Tallahassee's Capitol Circle on Friday. So were telling him to build it now.
The Florida Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Florida, two of the state's business lobbying powerhouses, are set to begin interviewing candidates for the state Legislature with the qualifying bell still a month off.
The chamber will begin meeting with candidates next week and the process will continue through much of the summer, said Edie Ousley, chamber vice president of public affairs.
With Gov. Rick Scott making plans to run for re-election in 2014, a closely linked political committee raised more than $1 million in April -- and has already collected nearly $2 million this year, according to the committee's website.
The Let's Get To Work Committee received $1.06 million last month, after collecting $918,703 earlier in the year, a list of contributors on the website shows. As a point of comparison, the Florida Democratic Party raised about $1.2 million between Jan. 1 and March 31.
"The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states ... "
-- Barack Obama, rising star, Democratic convention, 2004.
For the past year, the Capitol press corps has inundated Gov. Rick Scott and his staff for their inner-office correspondence.
On Thursday, Scott unveiled a webpage called Sunburst that will make it easier and less expensive for the media to read what key members of the governors office are writing among each other and to the public.
It will also now be easier for the public to read questions the media are asking of the governor and deduce and assess what stories are being worked on and their approach to them.
