Last Thursday was the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech, and while the anniversary did not go unmentioned, it got less attention than I expected. I suspect that those of us who can remember that snowy day -- why do we schedule our great national outdoor ceremony for a day that is as likely as any to be the coldest of the year?

Gov. Rick Scott appointed former CIGNA executive Jack Miles to take over the Department of Management Services, an agency frequently criticized for sloppy management of the states property and contracts.

Floridas unemployment rate remained at 12 percent in December, leaving the Sunshine State with the same unemployment rate it started with at the beginning of 2010, and 2.6 percent above the national jobless rate of 9.4 percent.

Gov. Rick Scott is fond of saying he wants to make Florida the best place in the country to do business. Associated Industries of Florida is hoping hell do just that -- in fact, AIF may have more confidence in the new governor than other organizations.

Florida's soaring Medicaid costs cry out for radical cuts, and Gov. Rick Scott, a former health-care executive, is prepping for surgery.

Gov. Rick Scott continues to have a busy first month in office. He touched base with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in a telephone call on Friday before heading off to Orlando to speak to the Florida Realtors Forum in Orlando. Earlier in the week, he met with golf legend Jack Nicklaus

Florida Republican Congressman Vern Buchanan introduced a bill Friday that could have a deep impact on Florida, because it seeks to stop Cuba from establishing oil rigs only 50 miles from the coast of the Sunshine State.

Two South Florida Republicans, members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, turned their fire away from Cuba this week to focus it on another communist country China.

He only had time to answer a fraction of the questions posed, but Gov. Rick Scott made the best of the time and space allotted in his first Twitter Town Hall.