State elections officials will not challenge a recent federal court ruling that threw out part of Floridas public campaign finance law, clearing the way for Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott to spend his own millions freely for the rest of the primary.
A legislative proposal to ask voters to relax class-size limits on Friday joined a host of other proposed constitutional amendments being challenged in court.
Florida emergency responders are looking into the Caribbean as they prepare for what could be the first storm of the 2010 hurricane season, an arrival that would not only curtail recovery operations but could require them to open up the partially capped oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Florida emergency response officials on Monday said they need more resources to battle a plume that sits ominously offshore and could hit some of the states most popular coastal tourist spots by the end of the week.
A pair of Senate Democrats Wednesday called on the State Board of Education to investigate delays in the scoring of the states FCAT tests and its contract with test assessment company NCS Pearson.
But the boards chairman said Wednesday that the boards own investigation shows proper procurement procedures were followed, the company has taken responsibility and has gone a long way toward mending fences over delays that jeopardize its $250 million contract with the state.
As oil plumes threatened Floridas Panhandle shoreline Monday, the region prepared for a presidential visit in hopes of bolstering oversight and jump-starting cleanup efforts.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to spend the night in Pensacola Monday in preparation for a local tour Tuesday and a national address later Tuesday from the Oval Office in which he is expected to ask BP to set aside billions in cash to pay for future cleanup efforts.
While emergency responders girded for an expected landfall of oil on Floridas coastline within the next few days, political figures mapped out plans and threw a little mud as frustration mounts over what has become the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
Calling the measure unfriendly to consumers, Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday vetoed legislation backed by the insurance industry that, among other things, things would have allowed property insurance companies to more easily raise rates by up to 10 percent a year without going through the lengthy regulatory process.
Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday signed into law a $175 million jobs bill the Senate backer of which said will help the state more quickly recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Included among a flurry of bills signed into law on the eve of the Memorial Day Weekend, Crist approved SB 1752, which among other provisions provides tax incentives for qualified businesses and tax breaks for other business related activities in an effort to jump start an economy that now sees unemployment at more than 12 percent.
Unsuccessful in attempts to scuttle property insurance changes pushed by the industry, the states trial lawyer organization is turning its attention to a potentially more sympathetic target: Gov. Charlie Crist.
The Florida Justice Association is asking the governor to veto SB 2044, an industry-backed property insurance package that, among other things, makes it easier for companies to raise rates and requires policyholders to prove they are replacing the items that have been destroyed.
