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

Neal Boortz, the once self-anointed "Mouth of the South," is pulling the plug on his daily radio talk show and turning over his microphone to Herman Cain next year. RadioInsight.com reported late Sunday night that Boortz, who has a residence in Naples, will wrap up his show Jan. 18. Boortz's current show, which began on Atlanta's WSB in 1993, airs on more than 200 stations and claims 6 million weekly listeners. Overall, he had been in the talk radio business for 42 years.

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater released the following statement for the2012 Atlantic hurricane season:

If the Badger State goes red, the Dems are dead. That's the chantable little slogan you'll hear around Washington about how both sides are looking at the recall election of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, his lieutenant governor and four Republican state senators. Trouble is, Dems on the national level aren't pouring enough money into the race between Walker and Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. And they've slipped as many as 7 points behind Walker in the polls.

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has signed a consent order that allows underwriters at the Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd. to operate in Florida as a reinsurer. Florida allows ceding insurance companies to receive full credit on their financial statements for reinsurance purchased from non-U.S.-based reinsurers that are highly rated and financially sound. Endurance reported capital and surplus of $2.4 billion on their year-end financial statement, exceeding the states $250 million requirement, according to the OIR.