A small home-based Florida company has won a $207,784 contract to "improve employment services" for 25 individuals treated for mental illnesses.

Announcing the contract, David Wilkins, secretary of the Department of Children and Families, said, We are putting into practice Governor [Rick] Scotts call to get Floridians back to work by linking businesses with the people who are ready to go to work as part of their treatment and recovery from mental illnesses.

The next three speakers of the Florida House announced Wednesday that they are backing former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Incoming Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, was named a co-chair of the state Pawlenty team while Rep. Chris Dorworth, R-Heathrow, and Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-New Port Richey, will serve as regional chairmen of the campaign.

The next three speakers of the Florida House announced on Wednesday that they were backing former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Incoming Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, backed Pawlenty and was named a co-chair of the state Pawlenty team while Rep. Chris Dorworth, R-Heathrow, and Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-New Port Richey, will serve as regional chairmen of the campaign.

The next three speakers of the Florida House announced on Wednesday that they were backing former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Incoming Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, backed Pawlenty and was named a co-chair of the state Pawlenty team while Rep. Chris Dorworth, R-Heathrow, and Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-New Port Richey, will serve as regional chairmen of the campaign.

Its a good day for journalism when a governor with a 29 percent approval rating serves as the warm-up act for a Pulitzer Prize winner, so thanks, Rick Scott, for showing up at Saturday's Florida Press Association (FPA) plenary convention session.

Gov. Rick Scott will add 200 more jobs to his tally this week when he trumpets the opening of Keystone Terminal at the port in Jacksonville, and the terminals first customer, Vulcan Materials.

While the jobs, to be announced in a celebration ceremony on Wednesday at the terminal, will be created on Scotts watch, theyre like some others the governor has claimed credit for in that theyve been in the works since long before he was elected.