After two universities pitched a plan in September to open new dental schools in Florida, the unsatisfied governing board for the State University System told the universities to come back in two months with more information.

Their main critique was that neither plan sufficiently addressed the problem of how to bring more dentists to underserved, rural areas. A recent Department of Health study said the existing dental schools in Florida sufficiently meet demand and that dentists are needed primarily in rural areas.

One of the chief complaints about Herman Cain's "9-9-9" tax plan is that money-hungry politicians could ratchet it up to 15-15-15, or worse.

So the GOP presidential candidate is going the other way, promising low-income Americans that their income tax rate would go to zero.

"Your plan isnt 9-9-9, its 9-0-9. Say amen, yall," Cain told a crowd in Detroit. "In other words, if you are at or below the poverty level then you dont pay that middle 9 on your income."

Back in the 1920s, the intelligentsia on both sides of the Atlantic were loudly protesting the execution of political radicals Sacco and Vanzetti, after what they claimed was an unfair trial.

The National Federation of Independent Business says a pending 8.9 percent rate hike in workers' compensation costs is bad news for small businesses.

The federation noted that small businesses had to cover a 7.8 percent increase last year and leadership expressed a desire for legislators to again try capping the price doctors can charge when dispensing drugs directly from their medical offices.

A federal judge's ruling temporarily blocking Florida's welfare drug-test law was assailed Monday as "insane and irresponsible."

"This is a deliberate violation of the law on the part of the judge," said Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation researcher who helped author the original law governing the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven sided with an Orlando man and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, which challenged the drug-testing requirement.

Dimissing critics' cries of "nuclear socialism," the Florida Public Service Commission approved $282 million in utility rate hikes on Monday.

Florida Power & Light and Progress Energy sought "early cost recovery" increases to kick-start four proposed nuclear reactors on the east and west coasts and upgrade existing plants. Under state law, utilities can seek rate hikes to cover planning, design and other preconstruction costs.

As he prepares to head to the Sunshine State to speak to the Florida Democratic Partys state convention on Friday night, Vice President Joe Biden hinted earlier this week that 2012 is on his mind -- and so is 2016.

Speaking to CNNs Candy Crowley on Sunday, Biden said his chief political task was to get President Barack Obama re-elected in 2012 -- but he left the door open for making a third bid for the White House in 2016.