The well has been dead for nearly a month, the leak capped for three months, but in a progress report Monday at the state Chamber of Commerce's Future of Florida Forum in Orlando, a BP executive said that recovery efforts in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are likely to continue long after the last damage claims are paid out.
There's a growing realization on the Space Coast that the future of the area's economy and the future of space exploration are going to rely heavily on commercial space companies.
The current national mood ahead of the midterm elections is unfavorable for Democrats across the country. While thats true for many parts of Florida, Senate District 14 isnt one of them.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday to allow the voters of Florida to decide the fate of Amendment 8.
The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday for and against the constitutional amendment to ease class-size restrictions in public schools.
Two weeks after supporters of Amendment 8 began a campaign to urge Floridians to vote in favor of the constitutional change that would relax caps on class sizes, opponents of the measure are fighting back.
Florida homeowners under threat of foreclosure were offered a ray of hope last week by reports that some banks were suspending foreclosure proceedings all over the U.S. due to faulty paperwork.
Immigration rights groups around the country are keeping up their efforts to revive the DREAM Act, the legislation that would allow immigrants to become citizens after spending two years in college or the military, even though it went down in flames last week.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that will add one more space shuttle launch and fund the development of commercial and heavy-lift rockets, but it wont save the jobs of more than 1,000 shuttle workers scheduled to be laid off Friday.
Florida received a one-month reprieve before the enactment of new regulations for some bodies of water, but state regulators are still looking for flexibility from the federal Environmental Protection Agency in developing new regulations that will govern different bodies of water.
