Doubts and controversy over Florida's high-speed rail venture aren't deterring high-powered European and Asian companies from lining up to bid on the project. Talgo Inc. figures to be at the head of the queue.
With Florida's only immigration-enforcement law blocked by former Attorney General Bill McCollum, state lawmakers are warming to the E-Verify employee-screening program.
In a high-stakes skirmish on taxes, lobbyists are dueling once more over legislation that would impose a 40-cent-per-pack tax on a Florida cigarette maker.
State Sen. Thad Altman's proposed bill has the deep-pocketed support of Big Tobacco companies, who say they want to "level the playing field" by requiring Dosal Tobacco Corp. to pay the same fees they've been paying since settling the state's tobacco lawsuit in 1997.
A Florida official's report that claimed state authorities are not using immigration enforcement powers available to them prompted critics to conclude that there is no need to pass more laws to control illegal aliens.
An odd-bedfellows alliance of button-down business groups and rabble-rousing migrant-rights advocates Monday condemned legislative efforts to curb illegal immigration in Florida.
President Barack Obama's executive order putatively tackling regulations may have handed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency another tool to bash Florida on water rules.
He only had time to answer a fraction of the questions posed, but Gov. Rick Scott made the best of the time and space allotted in his first Twitter Town Hall.
Mike Grissom, a veteran GOP operative, is a leading candidate to be the state Republican Party's new executive director, informed sources tell Sunshine State News.
House Speaker Dean Cannon says state pension reform is "on the agenda." But the subject promises to be contentious, as public-sector labor unions have already ramped up their defenses.
Schoolteachers may be "underpaid," but National Education Association bosses scraped up $13 million in union dues to spend on social and political causes.
