This week, supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney have been bashing President Barack Obama for broken promises. U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, went to bat for Romney on Tuesday, hammering Obama on the economy and the national debt.
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Sen. Arthenia Joyner and a pair of voting-rights organizations have filed an administrative challenge to the state's decision to push ahead with a new elections law in 62 of Florida's 67 counties.
The filing, which the groups announced Monday, is the latest chapter in an ongoing legal saga over who will be allowed to vote in the state's elections and what the rules will be for casting ballots.
Having taught economics at a number of colleges for a number of years, I especially welcomed a feature article in the June 22 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, on how economics courses with the same name can be very different at different colleges.
On Monday it was reported that Florida will receive $56 million as part of a record-setting $3 billion federal-state settlement by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline to resolve criminal and civil charges that included marketing antidepressants for approved uses.
I am proud to say that this agreement makes Florida whole for the deceptive practices that misled consumers and defrauded the Medicaid program out of money, Attorney General Pam Bondi stated in a release.
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The next step in Floridas struggle with the federal government over how to find non-U.S. citizens among the list of registered voters will come out later this week.
And that could mean the effort to check for noncitizens is restarted.
But dont expect county elections officials to immediately go along -- at least, not until the state can do a better job of backing up claims that an individual shouldnt be registered as a voter.
Floridas fight against Obamacare isnt over, no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court rules, Gov. Rick Scott reiterated in televised interviews on Monday.
And the Affordable Care Act should be one of the defining issues of this years presidential and other federal elections.
With Chief Justice John Roberts offering the swing vote on the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold most of the Obamacare law, conservatives are throwing jabs at the Republican-appointed chief justice, trying to find bright spots in his ruling.
Ohio has always ranked as one of the biggest prizes in American presidential history. While the Buckeye State continually battles with Virginia in an endless argument over which of them produced more presidents, six presidents -- William Henry Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding -- were based there while two presidents born there -- Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin Harrison -- rose to power from other states.
Among the nine attorneys to have their legal license suspended last month by the Florida Supreme Court was Mikel David Jones, a former aide to U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar.
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