Florida existing home sales in October shot up 13 percent from a year ago as the median price fell, according to figures released Monday by Florida Realtors.
Buoyed by lower interest rates and improved consumer confidence, sales increased in 17 of 19 metropolitan areas across the state, the association's chief economist reported Friday. Median prices were off about 4 percent statewide, falling to $131,200 from $136,600 a year ago.
Michele Bachmann's new book, "Core of Conviction," is part memoir, part bill of indictment against the Obama administration, and almost always "right."
Railing against "economic declinists, foreign-policy defeatists and anti-family relativists," the GOP presidential candidate goes well beyond the usual party-line pablum.
In fact, she's particularly hard on Republican backsliders, aka RINOs.
The supercommittee apparently wasn't so super. The members announced Monday they would not be able to meet the deadline of Nov. 23 for finding $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion in savings in our federal government over the next 10 years.
While other hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination have ebbed and flowed in the national polls, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts has remained on top in New Hampshire, home of the first presidential primary. Romney looked to expand on that advantage this week when he unveiled the endorsements of two members of the Granite States congressional delegation -- U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass and U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte.
Time for Republicans to take a deep breath and remember what the pot of gold at the end of the Election 2012 rainbow really is: the defeat of Barack Obama.
While Thanksgiving conjures up images of Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims sharing turkey and corn with Native Americans, Florida had its own role in Americas earliest Thanksgiving celebrations.
Decades before the Pilgrims gathered around a table in Massachusetts in 1621, Florida had seen at least two separate Thanksgiving celebrations and, as in the more familiar tale from New England, they involved native Americans and religious liberty.
The occasional chill in the air -- what passes for a chill in Tallahassee -- sent signals that 2011 was drawing to an end. But with an early session set for 2012 to deal with redistricting, lawmakers were beginning to lay the groundwork for the major proposals of the coming year.
Except, it seemed, for the redistricting debate that prompted the early starting gun.
Student loans are more than fire traps for millions of American families. Trust me, they're the next subprime mortgage crisis.
