Floridas recent drought and its effect on water supply and the environment should lead to serious discussions about water management and how water supply decisions are made.

Thanks to tinkering from the Florida Legislature, enrollment in Florida's corporate tax credit vouchers soared last year, with a 20 percent increase in students.

The enrollment surge coincided with an apparent increase in demand for the voucher program. Step Up For Students, the administrator of the corporate tax credit scholarship, said Wednesday that it had to stop accepting applications in May when it hit 33,000 new students. Last year, the program cut off new applicants in September.

About a year before he made his first run for the presidency, I had a chance to sit down and talk extensively with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

As if the job of redrawing 187 congressional and legislative districts weren't complicated enough, liberal groups are ascribing the worst possible motives to Florida lawmakers assigned to the task.

At nearly a dozen public-input meetings conducted around the state over the past month, representatives from the ACLU, the NAACP and the League of Women Voters, among others, have read nearly identical scripts assailing the redistricting process.

Two Florida Republican congressmen, Tom Rooney and Vern Buchanan, said on Wednesday that they intended to co-sponsor a proposal from a Tennessee Democrat that would cut off congressional pay if the federal government reached a default.

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., said Tuesday that he will introduce a measure that will end congressional salaries -- and ensure that they would not be paid retroactively -- if the current stalemate in Washington over raising the federal debt ceiling was not ended by Aug. 2.