Gov. Rick Scott has his bags packed, ready to jet to Chile Tuesday on what will be his eighth trade mission since taking office in 2011.
The trip will be his second to South America. The last time a Florida governor visited Chile was in 2007.
Rep. Holly Merrill Raschein, R-Key Largo, has drawn a major Democratic opponent as she seeks to defend one of the more competitive seats in the Florida House of Representatives.
Congressman Bill Young, who was first elected to the Florida Senate in 1960 and won a seat in Congress in 1970, shows no signs of going away as reports came out early this week that he intends to run for a 23rd term in 2014.
Young is assembling his war chest earlier this election cycle than has been his normal procedure. He brought in more than $58,000, including more than $43,000 from PACs, in the first quarter of 2013 and had more than $208,500 at the end of March.
Jacksonville's Mayor Alvin Brown is being hailed in many quarters, even conservative ones, as one of the Democratic Party's rising stars, drawing praise even from many Republicans for the way he has governed Florida's largest city -- and a traditional GOP stronghold -- since his upset election in May 2011.
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Gov. Rick Scott spread the pain.
As Scott signed a $74.1 billion state budget Monday, he used his line-item veto power to eliminate proposals that ranged from spending $14 million on a building project at Gulf Coast State College in the Panhandle to earmarking $20,000 for the Hialeah Junior Fire Academy in South Florida.
"My filter was this,'' Scott said. "One, is it going to help our families get more jobs? Two, will it help improve our education system in our state? And three, will it make government more efficient so we can keep the cost of living low in our state?"
The Internal Revenue Service has been caught engaging in political profiling while processing applications for tax-exempt status.
An all-too-familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4 to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels.
No, this is not Watergate or Iran-Contra. Nor is it like the sex scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached.
