College and university student have until March 8 to apply for the 2013-2014 Gubernatorial Fellows Program.
The program gives students a chance to spend two semesters working with key staff in the governors office and other agencies, depending upon their major.
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R Street, a free-market think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., has released a new report that urges Florida's legislators to cut off all home insurance subsidies to residents building new homes in undeveloped wetlands and barrier islands along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, as well as undeveloped coastal barriers along the Florida Keys.
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Congressman Ted Yoho, R-Fla., has issued the following statement following President Obamas controversial Wednesday press conference:
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Increased premiums, creating a clearing house for private firms to cherry pick accounts, or breaking up Citizens Property Insurance Corp. into more manageable pieces are among proposals being tossed about in the Senate to reduce the Florida-backed insurer and attract more private firms into Florida.
The federal Affordable Care Act is expected to add tens of millions of dollars in costs to Florida's state-employee health insurance program, leading some lawmakers to float the possibility of shifting more expenses to workers or tinkering with benefits.
"We certainly still have budget problems in the state of Florida,'' Rep. John Wood, R-Winter Haven, said Wednesday as a House select committee heard a presentation about the issue. "We have a lot of competition for our revenue."
To judge from his surly demeanor and defiant words at his press conference on Monday, Barack Obama begins his second term with a strategy to defeat and humiliate Republicans rather than a strategy to govern.
The 14-member Florida House Criminal Justice Subcommittee approved, by a unanimous vote Wednesday morning, a bill that revises the 2011 "Massage Practice Act," in an effort to combat human trafficking. Its sponsors are optimistic it will pick up similar traction in the Senate.
Options for both initial and continuing education have expanded rapidly in the 21st century.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi says her office has reached first-of-its-kind settlements requiring reforms to the business practices of five of the Sunshine State's largest prepaid debit card companies: Account Now Inc., First Data Corp., Green Dot Corp., Net Spend Corp., and Unirush LLC.
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