Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet agreed Tuesday to spend $580,000 to help expand The Grove historic site in Tallahassee, despite a lawsuit by a Scott political opponent who says he has a deal to buy the land.

The Grove, near the governor's mansion north of downtown Tallahassee, was built in the 19th century by Richard Keith Call, who served as a territorial governor before Florida became a state. It later became home to the late Gov. Leroy Collins and his family.

WASHINGTON -- What's in a name?

Most of us, perhaps regrettably, do not get to select our own names and are saddled with our parents' projections of what we might be. It is entertaining to consider what name we might select for ourselves and what that name might suggest about us. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum recently got this chance when they selected their Secret Service code names.

Barack Obama's promise to "bend the cost curve" of health care has gone bust. Now, on the legal front, administration lawyers are shifting Obamacare's defensive lines before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecasts that the Affordable Care Act will "significantly increase" mandatory health-care spending from $26 billion this year to $161 billion in 2022.

Overall, the CBO pegs the price tag at $2.6 trillion -- a far cry from Obama's initial projections of multibillion-dollar savings.

Anticipating a legal challenge to the new law requiring random drug testing of state employees -- and with a lawsuit against an executive order on the same topic still pending -- Gov. Rick Scott issued a memo to state employees late Tuesday putting off testing until last year's lawsuit is resolved.

"While the case is pending it does not make sense for all agencies to move forward with the logistical issues involved in instituting the new policy," the memo states.

Gov. Rick Scott said before any special panel is created to look into race relations or revisit the Stand Your Ground law, the investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin should be allowed to proceed unimpeded.

Speaking to reporters in his Capitol office on Tuesday, Scott said the state should wait to take any actions until the results are completed into the investigation hes called for by Florida Department of Law Enforcement to proceed alongside those of the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice.

With Illinois having its say on Tuesday, Louisiana, which will have 46 delegates at the GOP convention in Tampa, is next in line with a primary on Saturday -- and the Republican presidential candidates are starting to focus on it.

This primary is shaping up to be the most important GOP presidential battle in the Pelican State since 1996, when Pat Buchanan effectively set himself up as the conservative alternative to Bob Dole by crushing Phil Gramm in the Louisiana caucus, which was actually held before Iowa in that election cycle.

Investigators from the secretary of states office are in Palm Beach County trying to determine how an error in the countys electronic-tabulating software resulted in the wrong results in two races.

Until I hear back from my people, were not going to make any conclusions or any ideas of what happened, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said Tuesday.

With the 2012 elections on the horizon, Detzner said members of his office are working with local elections officials and makers of the hardware and software.

Marco Rubio drew national attention for his win in the 2010 U.S. Senate race when he drove the heavily favored Charlie Crist out of the Republican Party to run with no party affiliation and started generating buzz that he'd wind up on a Republican presidential ticket in 2012 or down the road.

That buzz grew louder this week as Rubio announced that the publication date of his new book, "An American Son," will be moved up to June 19 -- leading to increased speculation that he could wind up on the GOP ticket in the vice presidential spot.

How does a computer, all on its own, give the wrong order of election results?