Gov. Rick Scott is disputing a comment about American economic drive made by President Barack Obama during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

Obama, when asked what he thinks China considers are impediments to investing in the United States, replied that weve been a bit lazy and needs to get hungrier to attract overseas money.
Scott, in a release, pointed to his recent trade mission with Enterprise Florida to Brazil, the hurdles of federal regulations and that Every day my focus is on attracting new businesses and jobs to Florida.

The campaign behind Republican presidential hopeful former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts unveiled its team to reach out to social and religious conservatives in the Sunshine State on Monday.

While Romney has take socially liberal positions in the past -- notably during his two statewide bids for elected office in Massachusetts in 1994 and 2002 -- his supporters insist he now stands with social conservatives against abortion and in favor of the role of religion in the public square.

It irritates members of both groups when I note the similarities of the tea party movement that swept the nation in the 2010 election and the peace movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Get-Rick-Scotters are either desperate to paint the governor as a shady backroom dealmaker or they conveniently ignored central points in the judge's order on prison privatization.

While Floridas pension plan funding is considered one of the healthiest in the nation, nearly a third of the 208 municipal programs in the state hold poor to failing marks, according to the Leroy Collins Institute at Florida State University.

The institute released a report last week that shows the majority of the municipal pension plans in the states 100 largest cities are at least 70 percent funded, earning a grade of C or better on a 10-point scale, with 14 percent getting A marks.

Economists consider a funding level higher than 80 percent to be sound.

WASHINGTON -- The Stolen Valor Act of 2005, a compound of political pandering and moral exhibitionism, was whooped through the Senate, aka the "world's greatest deliberative body," by unanimous consent; the House, joining the stampede, passed it by a voice vote. So Xavier Alvarez now hopes the Supreme Court will save him from punishment for lying.

At the urging of Gov. Rick Scott, the governing board for the State University System is considering a plan to track performance of universities, reward good professors and encourage more graduates in science, technology, engineering and math.