The Florida House of Representatives spent Wednesday in a mammoth full session, preparing for debate and a vote on its initial budget on Thursday.
While the Senate passed its first budget without any opposition and adjourned for the Easter holiday, the House plowed through amendments, reports from appropriation committee chairs, conforming bills and second readings of appropriation bills.
Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer, whom Gov. Charlie Crist hand picked to lead the party, is the subject of a criminal investigation for authorizing a sweetheart deal between the party and a company in which he owned a majority interest.
On Tuesday, current RPOF Chairman Sen. John Thrasher, of Jacksonville, released an independent audit of the RPOF that he had ordered after taking over the state party.
While Gov. Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio's battle for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination is grabbing headlines, other Florida primary fights are also shaping up. Four Democrats have already announced plans to run for commissioner of agriculture.
Florida parents shopping for back-to-school deals may be able to avoid sales taxes if a bill creating a sales tax holiday works its way through the Legislature.
Florida has held sales tax holidays for seven of the last 10 years, but not since 2007. Gov. Charlie Crist called for a sales tax holiday in his State of the State address on March 2.
As politicians scramble to raise as much as they can before the March 31 quarterly deadline, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson took things to a new level Saturday
in a money-bomb event. Buoyed by the support of nationally known progressives, including former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, U.S. Rep.
With the legislative session reaching its midpoint, House Democrats have filled out progress reports for how things are going.
So far, not so good, said Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota, the Democratic Caucus Policy Chair.
Fitzgerald and incoming House minority leader Ron Saunders, D-Key West, held a news conference Monday and gave House Republicans straight F grades on restoring public trust, improving education, helping small businesses and pushing the interests of Floridians.
Kendrick Meek's U.S. Senate campaign turned in petitions Monday to place him on the ballot, edging the Democratic representative closer to becoming the first ever statewide candidate to avoid paying Florida's hefty filing fee.
We have made history by filing over 145,000 signatures, said campaign manager Abe Dyk.
There was a moment Sunday night at 101 Restaurant and Lounge in Tallahassee when a chorus of boos seized the crowd.
Over the past twenty years, the Florida Federation of TeenAge Republicans (TARS) have proven to be a valuable volunteer army for local, statewide, and national GOP candidates and campaigns.
Economist David Denslow offered a snapshot into Floridas future -- and its not as dire as many predict.
Its not a great, rapid recovery, but it is there and we wont have to wait until 2013 or 2014 to see it, he said.
