After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton

Medicaid will be on center stage on Capitol Hill on Wednesday when Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, the chairman of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee under the umbrella of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will examine how fraud impacts the program -- and how much it costs taxpayers.

Gray Swoope, who headed up the Mississippi Development Agency under Gov. Haley Barbour, was named on Monday to head Enterprise Florida. Bringing new energy and expertise to Floridas economic development activities is an ideal task for which Gray Swoope is well-suited, Gov. Rick Scott said.I am excited to have him leading the job creation and economic development mission in Florida.

The unending melodrama surrounding Florida's rejection of failed stimulus dollars begs the question: Why is the Obama administration so fixated on rail? The transportation blog in the National Journal addressed that query today and, echoing Gov. Rick Scott, suggested a better route: "Isn't it curious that an administration devoted to the principle of multi-modalism is so obsessively determined to promote a single mode of its own preference -- that of high-speed rail?" asks transportation writer Ken Orski.

Leftists boiling over President Barack Obama's supposed tack to the center have one more reason to be upset: genetically engineered alfalfa. The U.S. Department of Agriculture lifted all restrictions on the genetically engineered crop, effectively allowing anyone to plant GE alfalfa anywhere, without any restriction. NaturalNews.com calls the move a "surrender to Monsanto [that] signifies the beginning of a new era of widespread genetic pollution of North America's crops and ranch animals (which eat those crops)."