Ending more than a year of talks, federal officials Thursday approved Florida's proposal to extend a controversial Medicaid managed-care pilot program through June 2014.
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For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq.
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- "We're not going to lose in New Hampshire." So says Mitt Romney's state coordinator, Jason McBride.
Why is the Obama administration using its executive powers to implement a general amnesty for the vast majority of illegal aliens present in the U.S.?
WASHINGTON -- Oh, quelle gaffe.
Rarely has such a small, innocuous, truth-based remark garnered so much attention from the chattering classes as Mitt Romney's proposed $10,000 bet with Rick Perry during this past weekend's Republican primary debate.
Washington gridlock may turn out to be the salvation of the Obama administration.
Congress will work all week to wrap up the end of the year legislation with the hopes that the first session of the 112th Congress can conclude by weeks end.
Mainstream media pundits gave Newt Gingrich "A's" for his stage performance in Des Moines on Saturday night.
It was a week of risk-taking in the 2012 presidential race.
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By Nancy Smith
Even Democrat-friendly PolitiFact Florida set a match to Debbie Wasserman Schultz's pants over her bizarre defense of Barack Obama's military threat to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
The National Democratic Party chairwoman told CNN that Obama has more support for his Syria initiative than George W. Bush had for the Iraq War.
By Kevin Derby
Gov. Rick Scott announced on Wednesday that HealthPlan Services (HPS) plans to expand in the Tampa area, investing $34.4 million and creating more than 1,000 new jobs in the next five years.
By Nancy Smith
You knew it was going to happen, right? You knew the anti-gambling crowd would commission a gaming study of its own to throw at the Florida Legislature two weeks before the last part of their own Spectrum Gaming Study was due out.
Sure enough.
By Kevin Derby
Weighing in on the Washington Naval Yard shootings, former U.S. Rep. Allen West insisted on Wednesday that gun control policies on military installations are hurting security.
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Former governor Jeb Bush addressed critics of Common Core State Standards in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, and he didn't show signs of backing down from his support of the national standards.
"If you're comfortable with mediocrity, fine. I'm not," said Bush at an appearance at the National Press Club. "And I think most Floridians aren't either. Yeah, there's a political consequence to all this. There is a lot of heat right now. But the simple fact is, no one can defend the lower standards that we have across this country."
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The Republican Party of Florida lauded Gov. Rick Scott's handling of health care navigators, explaining that over a month ago the governor raised concerns about health care navigators' access to Americans' private records. Scott has been vocal about privacy concerns associated with the new health care law.Scott said he worried they would become privy to private information as they helped Floridians sign up for coverage.
By Kevin Derby
Dominic Calabro, the president and CEO of Florida TaxWatch, cheered the news that Pam Stewart will be taking over as Florida education commissioner on Wednesday and he pointed to their shared support of Common Core standards as one of the reasons why.
By Kevin Derby
On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to Floridas two U.S. senators -- Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Marco Rubio -- urging them to stand against increases in National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) premiums.
By Kevin Derby
A new national poll finds Americans have mixed thoughts on teachers' unions. Rasmussen Reports released a poll on Tuesday which finds 40 percent of Americans see teachers' unions as favorable but 45 percent see them as unfavorable.
The poll also finds that opponents of teachers' unions have more deeply held views. Almost a quarter of those surveyed -- 24 percent -- see teachers' unions as very unfavorable while only 13 percent see them as very favorable.
The survey of 1,000 American adults was taken from Sept. 11-12 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.
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A new Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday showed Americans aren't too confident that the Federal Reserve Board can keep the inflation rate down. The survey comes as conversations over who will be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board are heating up.
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