A recent Wall Street Journal headline, "Builders See Returning Florida Market," sounded a positive note for the state's long-languishing real estate sector.
The Sanford-datelined story was pegged on a single statistic: a 70 percent year-over-year increase in construction starts for single-family homes in the Orlando area.
The TEA Party of Florida squares off against 33 local tea parties and individual Floridians in federal district court in West Palm Beach Wednesday.
The TEA Party, which was sued by rival tea organizations for co-opting the name, seeks dismissal of the lawsuit.
Florida has a lot riding on the future of manned spaceflight.
Targeting Republican lawmakers who raised taxes and green-lighted the "Train to Nowhere," the TEA Party of Florida has nearly 20 legislative candidates on the fall ballot.
"We're going after some of the big boys -- Dean Cannon, Chris Dorworth, Bryan Nelson and Steve Precourt -- because they voted for (Central Florida's billion-dollar) SunRail. They're on the hitlist," Doug Guetzloe, a consultant for the new TEA Party, said Friday morning.
Hoping to push lawmakers into a cleaner, renewable future, a new business group announced Thursday that it will convene a Florida Energy Summit July 8 in Orlando.
Citizens for Clean Energy -- a coalition of businesses, educational institutions and community groups -- will host the conference at the Orlando World Center Marriott. State Senate President-designate Mike Haridopolos will moderate discussions on clean energy and future energy policy.
Flanked by state Rep. Dean Cannon and a South Florida Tea Party representative, Bill McCollum appeared to be well-covered politically and geographically at his official filing Thursday for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
But appearances can be deceiving.
While McCollum racks up endorsements from GOP bigwigs and receives air support from political organizations in the form of hard-hitting TV ads, the attorney general continues to cry poor mouth as he is outspent by billionaire Rick Scott.
Anger may be rising against the two-party system, but Florida's "third" parties have yet to convert it into candidates.
Though the state Department of Elections lists 30 minor parties as "active," only a tiny handful of them have candidates on the 2010 ballot. And some of those hopefuls aren't even running under their party's banner, opting instead to appear as write-ins or NPA (No Party Affiliation), as newly independent Gov. Charlie Crist is doing with his U.S. Senate bid.
If you thought Americans were mad at politicians, check out what they're saying about the messengers.
A new Rasmussen poll found 66 percent of respondents describe themselves as at least "somewhat angry" at the media, including 33 percent who are "very angry."
Such numbers -- which rival Congress for the depth of disapproval -- are toxic for news organizations that depend on trust and credibility for their livelihood.
Spoiling for a legal fight, a minor Florida political party has banned African-Americans and non-Christians from its membership rolls.
The British Reformed Sectarian Party imposed the politically incorrect ban as a way to call attention to a longstanding dispute between the Republican Party of Florida and BRS Party founder Tom Kelly.
Bill McCollum's offensive against Rick Scott's well-publicized "mistakes" at Columbia/HCA is shining a light on McCollum's own health-care record in Congress.
Anyone who's been paying attention to the increasingly acrimonious Republican gubernatorial campaign knows by now that Scott was chairman and CEO of the HCA hospital chain when it was fined $1.7 billion by federal authorities.
