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

Businessman Herman Cain has surged past former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Gov. Rick Perry to lead in a national poll unveiled late on Wednesday. Cain topped the NBC/ Wall Street Journal poll with 27 percent followed by Romney with 23 percent and Perry with 16 percent. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas took fourth place with 11 percent. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich took fifth with 8 percent followed by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann with 5 percent, former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah with 3 percent and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum with 1 percent.

Citizens Property Insurance Corp. board members on Wednesday boosted the standard coverage 6 percent for the majority of its nearly 1.5 million customers, while formally hiking sinkhole policies to a rate lowered last month by state regulators. Sinkhole policies will still jump 32.8 percent, but the amount is down from the initial request from the state-backed Citizens that averaged 447 percent statewide. The board had agreed to cap the sinkhole increase at 50 percent on the eve of an expected contentious public hearing in Tampa on Sept. 13.

Gov. Rick Scott has appointed Mose L. Floyd of Ponte Verde Beach to the Duval County Court and Kevin Carroll of Tallahassee to the 2nd Judicial Circuit Court.