With the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee set to meet on Wednesday to examine the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2011 (RESTORE Act), business and environmental leaders pointed to a new study that found that ecosystem restoration could lead to new jobs in the Sunshine State.
Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about Newt Gingrich, as he leads in polls for the Republican presidential nomination nationally and in Iowa and South Carolina, and may be threatening Mitt Romney's lead in New Hampshire.
The Herman Cain train that started rolling with a stunning victory at Florida's Presidency 5 straw poll was derailed within two months by a string of sex-charged allegations and an uncomfortable videotaped flub over Libya.
Speaking Saturday in Atlanta, the one-time GOP front-runner announced that was suspending his campaign.
"As false accusations about me continue, they have sidetracked and distracted my ability to present solutions to the American people," Cain told a modest gathering outside his campaign headquarters.
Apparently if you're an environmentalist in Florida, Charlie Crist is like a polar bear in a blizzard. You don't see him.
Two-thirds to three-quarters of those expected to visit mega-casinos being proposed for Southeast Florida will likely have diverted their time -- and their money -- from other destinations in the region, state economists projected Friday afternoon.
That is, if the casinos are limited to just Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
Blame it on the after-effects of Thanksgiving turkey, Black Friday or Cyber Monday, but lawmakers and state officials largely took a pass this week as the capital city was quiet in preparation for a busy preholiday committee week that starts early Monday.
Hatched in 2008 when Marco Rubio held power in the state Capitol, the Florida Health Choices program expects to start offering health-insurance plans to small businesses in July 2012.
Chairman Aaron Bean on Friday acknowledged frustrations with the pace of Florida Health Choices, which supporters have long touted as a new type of "marketplace" for buying health coverage. But he also said officials want to make sure it is developed correctly.
Are you feeling it? The Obama administration claimed Friday that a 0.4-point drop in the unemployment rate to 8.6 percent "provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal."
But the November jobs report revealed a discouraged and shrinking U.S. work force, while spurring suspicions of statistical manipulation by the government.
Florida hasn't been hit by a hurricane in six years, but a long "hurricane tail" continues to lash the insurance industry, a new report shows.
The 2011 storm season, which ended Nov. 30, continued the longest stretch without a hurricane in Florida since the nine-year gap between Opal (1995) and Charley (2004).
The last hurricane to hit the Sunshine State was Wilma, which first struck the southwest peninsula as a Category 3 storm in October 2005.
So why arent property insurance rates dying down like the winds?
