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

One day after a majority of the Sanford City Council voted for a measure expressing no confidence in him," Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee announced he is temporarily resigning over his handling of the shooting death of a black teenager by a white man.

Could increased Internet access result in a Cuban Spring? Floridas Sen. Marco Rubio thinks so. And he thinks thats why its not going to come to the island as long as the Castro regime lasts. The keynote speaker at a panel discussion Wednesday hosted by the Heritage Foundation and Googles think tank, Google Ideas, Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles, predicted that greater access to technology would lead to greater longing for freedom in the countrys population -- a possibility the dictatorship fears.

Florida East Coast Industries has announced a $1 billion project to create a Miami-to-Orlando passenger train service by 2014 called "All Aboard Florida." The rail line would go from Miami to Cocoa along the FEC right-of-way that skirts the east coast of Florida and last supported passenger rail service in 1968, then travels west on new tracks to Orlando, a release from Florida East Coast Industries stated.

Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami, withdrew an amendment to the Senates redistricting effort that sought a fourth Hispanic seat in Southeast Florida -- a seat now held by Sen. Gwen Margolis, D-Miami, that de la Portilla's brother Alex has eyed for a return to the Legislature. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla initially proposed the amendment during the Senate Reapportionment Committee meeting earlier in the week.