You wouldn't normally think Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene and ultra-conservative tea partiers would have a lot in common, but the billionaire Democrat is among the chorus of critics who believe Gov. Charlie Crist's land acquisition deal with U.S. Sugar Corporation is bad for Florida.

Greene had just completed an airboat tour of the Everglades Friday when he explained to Sunshine State News the "wrong way to do it, Charlie" summary of the governor's deal with U.S. Sugar.

A new poll reveals Floridians are strongly opposed to President Barack Obamas administration suing Arizona for its measures of cracking down on illegal immigration -- and want a similar law in Florida.

The Rasmussen Reports' poll of 500 likely voters across Florida found that 60 percent opposed the Obama administrations legal challenge to Arizona, while 28 percent backed the lawsuit and 12 percent were undecided.

If you're planning on dying anytime soon, tax advisers say it would be best to do it before Jan. 1.

The so-called "death tax" returns with a vengeance next year, bringing a 55 percent top tax rate on estates valued at more than $1 million.That compares to the current rate of 0 percent on estates up to $3.5 million.

Dusting off a site that hasn't been used in 11 years, Space Florida won approval to operate Space Launch Complex 46 for commercial liftoffs.

Congress returns fromits Fourth of July recess Monday with lots to do and not enough votes to accomplish the task, at least not right now.

The courts were in session in the busy week that was and the Legislature will soon be, too.

Florida lawmakers are set to arrive in Tallahassee later this month to address issues related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that has sent oil toward Florida beaches, but lawmakers in other states have already beaten them to the punch.

Louisiana, North Carolina, New Jersey and South Carolina have all introduced bills relating to oil spill cleanup plans, recovery for damages and moratoria on offshore drilling. But really, it's anyone's best guess what will happen when the Florida House and Senate return to Tallahassee July 20.

Though nobody has attempted to calculate it yet, LeBron James's economic impact on the Greater Miami area could be something akin to the eruption of Mount St. Helens -- only instead of lava, the city could be looking at a flowing sea of greenbacks.

As sports business commentator and author Rick Horrow said in Friday's Miami Herald, "LeBron is a walking, talking, free-throw-shooting stimulus plan."

WASHINGTON -- Fifty years ago Sunday, a novel hit Americas bookshelves that changed the way millions thought about race and the inexplicable South.

Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird, by some estimates the most-read book in American schools, has grown old enough to have become slightly dotty in the minds of fresher readers, many of whom have only a textbook understanding of the way things were.

WASHINGTON -- Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Obama's vision of NASA's mission, as explained by administrator Charles Bolden: