With the likes of former U.S. Sen Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and U.S. Sen.Ted Cruz, R-Texas, heading out to Iowa this weekend for the Family Leader Summit in Ames, eyes are starting to turn to the Hawkeye State as the race for the Republican presidential nomination starts to shape up.
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After Tony Bennett resigned as commissioner of education for the Florida Department of Education, Democrats across the Sunshine State began calling for a return to the process of an elected education commissioner. On Thursday, the Florida Democratic Party started an online petition for an elected education commissioner on their website.
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Miami-Dade school board member and congressional hopeful Carlos Curbelo had fighting words for Congress on Thursday, criticizing members for going on recess while Americans "roll up their sleeves and get to work."
"With only four of the 12 spending bills passed and nine legislative days left before the fiscal year ends, our representatives in Washington thought it was best to keep House tradition and break for August recess,"read Curbelo's press release.
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With the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to take up a major case on the role of religion in the public square, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., offered his thoughts on Thursday. Earlier in the week, Rubio joined an amicus brief for Town of Greece v. Galloway, a religious liberty case which the Supreme Court of the United States took up regarding a federal appeals court ruling that having a prayer at town board meetings violated the Constitution.
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Former Congressman Allen West ripped into civil rights activists for being silent on an incident in Gulfport in which three African-American teenagers beat up a younger white teenager who refused to buy drugs from them. The incident was caught on video and the bus driver, John Moody, is under fire for doing little to prevent it.
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Online middle school and high school Florida Virtual School saw its enrollment numbers plummet 32 percent over the last year, causing the school to make the first layoffs in its 16-year history.
Florida Virtual School serves about130,000 students around Florida.
The Tampa Bay Times reported Wednesday that FLVS cut over 600 part-time teachers and 177 full-time teachers as a result of the decreased enrollment, though FLVS hasn't attributed the decline to any reason in particular.
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Almost 50 members of Congress from both parties joined in a letter sent to Baroness Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union (EU), praising the EU for classifying Hezbollahs military operations as terrorism. The congressmen urged the EU to classify all of Hezbollah as terrorists.
Members of both parties signed the letter, including Florida Republicans Gus Bilirakis, Jeff Miller and Mario Diaz-Balart, and Florida Democrats Ted Deutch, Alcee Hastings and Lois Frankel.
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Former Congressman Allen West, who has opened the door to a political comeback in 2016, weighed in this week on the start of the trial of the Fort Hood shooter.
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Another celebrity is headed to Tallahassee Thursday to join the Dream Defenders in their protest. According to the Dream Defenders' Facebook page, Rapper Talib Kweli will be coming to the Capitol at 3:30 p.m. and will spend the evening with them to protest the controversial Stand Your Ground law in Florida.
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DETROIT -- This city is the broken tooth in Michigan's smile. Nevertheless, the preternaturally optimistic governor, from whom never is heard a discouraging word, cheerfully describes his recent foray with a crew cleaning up a park in a particularly, well,challengingneighborhood:
