While the focus will be on the scripted political gamesmanship this week in Tampa for the Republican National Convention, and the week after in North Carolina with the Democrats, Neil Cavuto and others at Fox Business Network intend to be digging for what the candidates will do about the economy.
He wants specific answers, not political retorts.
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, found herself dressed down by Anderson Cooper on his CNN show on Thursday for a fundraising letter the party sent out that misquotes the Los Angeles Times regarding presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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Floridas delegates to the Republican National Convention will be treated to Florida produce and an assortment of national speakers each morning while in Tampa next week.
Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam will host a daily "Fresh from Florida" breakfast for the delegation at the Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, where the delegation has been assigned by the Republican National Committee.
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Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty released the following statement on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew hitting South Florida:
Today marks the anniversary of Hurricane Andrew, a tropical hurricane that reached landfall in Florida on Aug. 24, 1992, and caused unprecedented economic damage in the Bahamas, Louisiana, and most notably Florida. Total damage in the United States was estimated to be in excess of $20 billion, making Andrew the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history at that time.
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When Republicans formally nominate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan next week, the race against President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will be officially under way.
Floridas $1.6 billioninvestment in bioscience is yielding high returns, according to two reports published by the industry and presented at its annual conference in June.
Biotechnology (or biotech) is the use of living organisms in the development of useful products, most commonly in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and in the development of agriculture.
Charlie Crist, former Florida governor turned independent Senate candidate turned ambulance-chasing billboard lawyer, is now rumored to be trying his hand as a thunder stealer.
They say, metaphorically speaking, he's going to crash the Republican National Convention next week by officially switching to join the Democratic Party so he can run for governor in 2014. The long-anticipated switch is hardly a surprise. At present the Dems have a gubernatorial-candidate shortlist so stunted it's barely a tweet.
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Because of the potential impact of Tropical Storm Isaac on the upcoming four-day Republican National Convention,Gov. Rick Scott and soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney have linked up in earnest.
Scott has also been on the phone with state and federal storm officials, along with organizers for the Republican National Convention.
But as of Thursday afternoon, there were no plans to make any changes to the mega-national event.
Whittaker Chambers said that "the great failing of American conservatives is they do not retrieve their wounded."
