While publicly posturing for "fairness" in redistricting, a group of top Florida Democrats privately pushed for maps that would benefit party brass, according to documents obtained by Sunshine State News.
Among the maneuvers detailed in intra-party emails and other correspondence about Senate district boundaries that would ultimately come under review by the state Supreme Court:
From canceling oil leases in his second week in office to denying the XL pipeline this year, President Obama and his administration have offered up a nonstop assault on affordable energy.
Virtually every day between now and Nov. 6, voters will be bombarded with political endorsements in campaigns ranging from county commissions to the White House.
Do they matter?
In some cases, a big-name supporter with a large following can have an impact at pivotal moments. But most political analysts say the electoral effect of endorsements is overblown and fleeting at best.
Four months ago, the states top economists, sitting as the Florida Economic Estimating Conference, forecast unemployment would hold at about 10.6 percent for the first quarter of 2012.
With sluggish growth expected to continue through the current fiscal year and a moderate increase in the next fiscal year, an 8.7 percent mark was foreseen as attainable in 2014.
On Friday, the latest numbers from the state Department of Economic Opportunity pushed the unemployment figure down to 9 percent, the lowest number since January 2009.
George Zimmerman, who once dreamed of becoming a police officer, had bond set at $150,000 Friday on a second-degree murder charge in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford.
Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. accepted the arguments that Zimmerman, 28, wont be a flight risk in what has become an intensely racially-charged case drawing international attention.
Florida has been the largest swing state in recent presidential elections and a new poll from Fox News shows the Sunshine State -- and its 29 Electoral College votes -- will be up for grabs in November.
The poll of registered Florida voters has President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney, the almost certain Republican presidential nominee, by a slim margin. Obama takes 45 percent of those surveyed while Romney, who won the Florida Republican primary at the end of January, takes 43 percent.
After a three-week lull, the Republican presidential primaries resume on Tuesday when five Northeastern states -- Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island -- have their say. With Rick Santorum having dropped out of the race earlier in the month, Mitt Romney has an overwhelming lead in the delegate count, but both Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul remain in the race.
Permanently-outraged-lefty Progress Florida is at it again, whipping up fear over something that deserves praise, not persecution.
Two years after an explosion killed 11 workers and sent oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has paid nearly $2.7 billion in claims to Florida businesses and individuals for damages caused by the worst spill in U.S. history.
WASHINGTON -- As the space shuttle Discovery flew three times around Washington, a final salute before landing at Dulles airport for retirement in a museum, thousands on the ground gazed upward with marvel and pride.
