Thousands of Floridians will head to the polls Monday as early voting begins statewide.

Republican Adam Putnam tops a four-way field for state commissioner of agriculture, according to a Sunshine State News Poll.

With less than three weeks to go until the election to replace him in the U.S. Senate, Republican George LeMieux continued to weigh in on the issues as speculation continued to grow that he intends to launch a campaign to return to Washington in 2012 by challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.

Virgin Galactic officials are, officially, mum about the prospects of bringing the company's space operations to Florida, but owner Richard Branson wasn't so circumspect during a swing through Orlando this week.

This Sunday many New York Times readers will read that our country spent $787 billion on an economic experiment or test model of sorts. You know that test model by the name of the stimulus bill.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should extend the period for finalizing numeric limits of pollution in state inland waters beyond the 30 days the federal agency agreed to last month, several former Department of Environmental Protection secretaries said Thursday.

With less than three weeks to go in the close gubernatorial contest between Democratic candidate Alex Sink and Republican nominee Rick Scott, the two camps continue to attack each other, both citing ethical violations.

WASHINGTON -- Voters seem to think Congress is like a weedy lot -- that anything done to it will improve it -- so they seem poised to produce something not seen since 1981-82. Then, for the first time since 1952, a majority of senators were in their first terms. This was the result of three consecutive churning elections -- 1976, 1978 and 1980.

I've been in campaign meetings. Sometimes the atmosphere is grim. Your side is down, and you're looking to turn things around.