It's a familiar promise: If lawmakers do something to bring a new business to Florida, the new enterprise will generate thousands of jobs, and boost Florida's reputation as business-friendly.
Eight years ago, lawmakers were considering whether to spend money to lure Scripps Research Institute into opening a Florida campus, hoping to mimic the biotechnology success that Scripps brought to San Diego.
LOS ANGELES -- In 1941, Carl Karcher was a 24-year-old truck driver for a bakery. Impressed by the large numbers of buns he was delivering, he scrounged up $326 to buy a hot dog cart across from a Goodyear plant. And the war came.
With less than five weeks until Republican voters caucus in Iowa to launch the procession of states that will determine who will emerge to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012, the GOP hopefuls continue to build in the Hawkeye State.
When they began crafting the Fair Districts amendments years ago, one of the goals supporters had was to create more competitive congressional districts. In at least some instances, under a draft of the map recently released by the staff of the Senate Reapportionment Committee, they might have succeeded.
The Poarch Band Creek Indians, betting $20 million on the Panhandle off-ramp town of Gretna, were able to showcase Floridas latest gambling option Thursday: controversial head-to-head barrel racing.
Opponents claim the races are just a front so they can entice voters to allow more lucrative slot machines to be installed.
Unlike in traditional barrel racing, where a single rider at a time competes against a clock, the tribe is pitting two riders at a time against each other in neighboring fields running horses in a cloverleaf fashion around three barrels.
WASHINGTON -- It's Iowa minus one month, and barring yet another resurrection, or something of similar improbability, it's Mitt Romney versus Newt Gingrich. In a match race, here's the scorecard:
Gov. Rick Scott announced Thursday that Colt Manufacturing, the maker of the famous Colt .45, the M-16 and other guns, will open a new regional headquarters and manufacturing facility in Osceola County.
The facility over the next three years will create 63 jobs paying an average of more than $45,000. Scott and M. William Keys, Colt Manufacturing president, made the announcement near Kissimmee.
Florida supporters of Herman Cain are standing by as they anxiously await his campaign "reassessment."
The businessman said he would counsel with his family in Georgia this weekend and announce his future plans at a yet-to-be-determined time.
Multiple allegations of misconduct and a painful stumble over an editorial board question about Libya have rocked the campaign and raised questions about the candidate's viability -- personally and politically.
Former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, now running in a crowded Republican primary to see who will emerge to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, unveiled his Miami-Dade team on Thursday.
I am proud to announce my Miami-Dade County Victory Team, said LeMieux who trails U.S. Rep. Connie Mack in the polls for the Republican nomination. South Florida is a pivotal component in Republican politics and my Miami-Dade Victory Team will play an important role in defeating Bill Nelson, taking back the U.S. Senate in 2012, and getting our country back on track.
Women of the Grand Old Party -- for that matter, men of the GOP -- what could you be thinking? Newt Gingrich? Really?
