Agriculture, business and environmental advocates had one clear message Thursday before the House Select Committee on Water Policy: Fiscal problems or not, deficit or not, provide for the future water supply of the state.
Staffers for seven state agencies presented $287.8 million in budget cuts Thursday to the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development Appropriations, but some legislators were concerned that the cuts were falling on services rather than administrative costs.
One of the chief items on Gov. Rick Scotts economic agenda is the elimination of the corporate income tax -- and it looks like he will be getting help from a key committee in the Florida House.
Millions of Americans -- in fact, hundreds of millions throughout the world -- remember where they were and what they were doing 25 years ago Friday.
Newly inaugurated Republican Sen. Marco Rubio announced his committee assignments in Washington Thursday, setting the stage for the issues he will focus on in his first years on the national stage.
During a three-hour meeting Thursday morning with Enterprise Florida, Gov. Rick Scott said he will bring the public-private partnership and two other state agencies into a newly created department of commerce -- and house the department right next door to his office where he can give it the attention it deserves.
With Florida's only immigration-enforcement law blocked by former Attorney General Bill McCollum, state lawmakers are warming to the E-Verify employee-screening program.
Republican lawmakers, still stung by the Florida Supreme Courts rebuke of three constitutional amendments, continued on Wednesday a long-running accusation that the court crafts state policy, usurping the Legislatures policymaking role.
Gov. Rick Scott pulled back a request to the U.S. Justice Department to review constitutional amendments 5 and 6 earlier this month, but is taking heat for the move from one member of his own party.
When President Barack Obama spoke about high-speed rail in his State of the Union address this week, he pointedly left out Florida.
