With two weeks to go until Election Day, most of the congressional races across the Sunshine State are not getting much in the way of attention. They simply can’t compete with the presidential race or even the Senate contest between Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy. 

Solar-energy supporters fighting a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot expressed outrage Wednesday after a policy director for a Tallahassee-based think tank was caught on tape discussing utility-industry efforts to deceive voters.

Pro-solar groups, in a mid-day conference call with reporters, said the leaked audio tape confirms their suspicion that the ballot proposal --- known as Amendment 1 --- is a multimillion-dollar deception that will hinder the future of alternative energy in Florida.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, cosponsor of a bill aimed at saving Florida's landmark and oldest remaining family-owned cigar maker, visited the J.C. Newman Cigar Co. in the Ybor City section of Tampa Wednesday to give its employees hope and draw attention to the cigar maker's plight.

Floridians who lost their jobs earlier this month due to severe storms and flooding during Hurricane Matthew may be entitled to federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance under a recently-approved request for a major disaster declaration in Florida.

Nearly 64,000 Floridians registered to vote in a weeklong period from Oct. 11 to Oct. 18 and will be able to vote in the 2016 election, according to a late-night email sent Tuesday from Secretary of State Ken Detzner. 

For the second year in a row, Florida lawmakers will attempt to fix the state's death-penalty sentencing scheme in response to court rulings finding that the process is unconstitutional.

Incoming Senate President Joe Negron, who will take over as head of the Senate after the November elections, told The News Service of Florida on Tuesday that lawmakers will have to redress the issue of jury unanimity, at the heart of rulings Friday by the Florida Supreme Court, when they reconvene next year.

Most Floridians say they support trained staff carrying firearms on school campuses, according to a new survey released Tuesday. 

The Florida university system has set an ambitious goal of having the equivalent of 40 percent of its full-time undergraduate students taking online classes by 2025.

That would more than double the usage of online classes from the 2013-14 academic year, under a goal set by the system's Board of Governors.

A key factor in that transition will be cost, with the idea that students may have an incentive to shift to online classes if they receive breaks on tuition or fees.

The gloves were off as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy sparred in a spirited debate in Orlando Monday evening, attacking each other over a wide array of issues from gun control, climate change and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Floridians are only a few hours away from the anticipated first debate between U.S. Senate candidates Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy.