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

Months after smoke from a brush fire helped cause a deadly crash along Interstate 75, the state has approved money for message boards near Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, south of Gainesville, to provide warnings of conditions in the area beginning July 1.

Amid the Republicans' alleged "war on women," female employees in the Obama White House earn considerably less than their male colleagues, records show. According to the 2011 report compiled by the White House, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica will conduct a hearing next week into waste, fraud and abuse at the U.S. General Services Administration. The GSA, which came under fire recently for a boozy, gift-laden junket to Las Vegas, has a lot to answer for, the Orlando Republican said. The Las Vegas conference was the tip of the iceberg," said Mica, who will convene a hearing next Tuesday with the working title of "GSA's Squandering of Taxpayer Dollars: A Pattern of Mismanagement, Excess and Waste.

From the Washington Post's Wonkblog comes news of a report just out from IBISWorld that looks at 10 industries demonstrating, as the researchers put it, exceptionally sour performance in the United States. There are various reasons, from the advent of new technology to trade competition. Nevertheless, here's the list: 1. Photofinishing. 2. Newspaper publishing. 3. Appliance repair.