Newly inaugurated Gov. Rick Scott has not yet signaled whether he will get on board with a high-speed rail connecting Tampa and Orlando, but the Senate president says he wont go along for the ride.

Gov.-elect Rick Scott picked the director of a Jacksonville shipyard on Monday to run his Department of Environmental Protection, turning to an unconventional source for the states top natural resources watchdog.

Gov. Charlie Crist started 2010 as a Republican, and the favorite to be the partys nominee for U.S. Senate.

Four years ago, Alex Sink became the first Florida chief financial officer to win a contested election in her first bid for elected office.

Now, she is looking back at a term that saw her emerge as the face of a Florida Democratic Party hungry for new voices, but fall short in her bid to win the Governors Mansion for the party, which has been in the wilderness there since 1999.

A supporter of Gov.-elect Rick Scott, who is so on the outs with legislative leaders that speculation has mounted she might end up in his administration, may hold the key to the future ofa high-speed rail connecting Tampa and Orlando.

Campaigning for governor, Rick Scott wasnt particularly courteous when talking about President Barack Obama, whose policies he slammed on the campaign trail. But somehow the incoming governor was surprised this week to be left waiting for a courtesy call from Obama that never came: a heads-up about a ban on new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Florida transportation advocates on Thursday flashed yellow caution lights at a key plank of a bipartisan debt commissions recommendations for balancing the federal budget, raising the federal tax on gasoline.

The way election calendars work, politicos in Florida are already thinking 2012 and 2016. For a set of entirely different reasons, so are Florida transportation advocates.

With new spending on rail in question because of a rising anti-tax mood, supporters in South and Northeast Florida may look to duplicate successes in Orlando and Tampa in drawing down federal money so trains can roll, even if theres state government opposition.

One-hundred and 60 of Gov. Charlie Crists not-so-closest friends gathered this week to give him a parting gift on his way out of Floridas Governors Mansion.