Starting Friday, Florida teachers salaries will be more closely tied to their students performance; welfare recipients must pass a drug test to receive benefits; and women seeking abortions will be first required to undergo an ultrasound procedure.

The changes come as a result of bills passed this year by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott.

With a recent poll from Fox News showing his bid for the Republican presidential nomination garnering less than 1 percent, former Louisiana Gov. Charles Buddy Roemer went on the attack Thursday, blasting the leadership of President Barack Obama.

The president's policies are truly meandering through the wilderness, said Roemer. The time is now for a true American leader, not the administration that most people are having buyer's remorse over."

With the fight largely over and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a similar law in Arizona, a federal judge on Wednesday quietly set aside a portion of Floridas campaign finance law increasing payments to publiclyfinanced candidates who face challenges from privately backed candidates willing to bust state spending caps.

What's the fair way to run a large organization? That's a question that is squarely, and interestingly, raised by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissenting opinion in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, a Supreme Court case decided last week.