May 4, 2012 - 6:00pm
WASHINGTON -- Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions.
Education Contract Again Hung Up in DOAH
May 6, 2012 - 6:00pm
A second attempt by the Department of Education to acquire testing items as part of a Race to the Top grant award has sparked a new legal battle among the agency and three of the companies involved in the bidding.
At stake: A contract potentially worth tens of millions of dollars that is already the subject of one bid challenge, prompting the department's second attempt.
Flags Ordered to Half-Staff for U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Metcalf
Submitted by Anonymous on May 4, 2012 - 4:34pm
Flags have been ordered to half-staff at the Palm Beach County Courthouse, Boynton Beach City Hall and Florida's Capitol on Saturday, May 5, for U.S. Army Private First Class Michael J. Metcalf, of Boynton Beach, who died on April 22 in Paktia Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Gov. Rick Scott signed the order Friday.
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Military Satellite Deployed after Successful Launch at the Cape
Submitted by Anonymous on May 4, 2012 - 4:26pm
The U.S. Air Forces Advance Extremely High Frequency 2 payload has been deployed following the launch of an Atlas 5 Friday from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41.
The $1 billion satellite is designed to provide secure wartime communications between the president and military leaders.
The launch of the Atlas 5 was moved to Friday after being scrubbed Thursday due to technical reasons.
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Bill Signed to Put Brakes on No-Fault Insurance Costs
May 3, 2012 - 6:00pm
One of the last bills signed by Gov. Rick Scott out of the 2012 legislative session was among his and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwaters primary targets in the session: slowing the rapid rise of the most affordable auto insurance in Florida.
Scott, in a signing ceremony Friday at the Florida State College, Law Enforcement Training/Criminal Justice Center in Jacksonville, placed his name to HB 119, a final-night-of-the-session, Senate-dominated revamping of the no-fault personal injury protection coverage.
It’s Time to Part With Your Precious Post Office
May 4, 2012 - 6:00pm
Its no secret that the U.S. Postal Service is in financial trouble. Its business is shrinking, with first-class mail revenue down 25 percent since 2006. It has lost $25 billion in the last five years.
Michigan Software Company Lands on the Space Coast
May 3, 2012 - 6:00pm
A Michigan-based information technology company expected to hire 190 over the next four years is on its way to Floridas Space Coast, the governors office announced Friday.
BlueWare Inc., a software company, is relocating to Melbourne, where it will be developing and writing software, document scanning and developing in the areas of robotics, nanotechnology and genomics, as they apply to a patients medical records.
Connie Mack Calls for Keystone Pipeline As New Rerouted Application Filed
May 3, 2012 - 6:00pm
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, seeking to take on U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Orlando, in November, continued to press the Keystone XL Pipeline issue against the incumbent, as a new application was filed for the political hot potato on Friday.
We know it will bring more oil to the United States; instead of buying it from Hugo Chavez and dictators and thugocrats around the world, we can buy it from a friend, Mack said outside a Shell gas station along the southern arc of Tallahassee's Capitol Circle on Friday. So were telling him to build it now.
Business Groups Set to Begin Legislative Endorsement Interviews
May 3, 2012 - 6:00pm
The Florida Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Florida, two of the state's business lobbying powerhouses, are set to begin interviewing candidates for the state Legislature with the qualifying bell still a month off.
The chamber will begin meeting with candidates next week and the process will continue through much of the summer, said Edie Ousley, chamber vice president of public affairs.
Rick Scott: Slain Correctional Officer's Family 'Closer to Justice'
Submitted by Anonymous on May 4, 2012 - 12:42pm
Gov. Rick Scott released the following statement Friday in response to the indictment of Richard P. Franklin on charges he stabbed to death Lake City correctional officer Sgt. Ruben Thomas at the Columbia Correctional Institution Annex on March 18.
The indictment of the inmate allegedly responsible for the death of Corrections Sergeant Ruben Thomas brings his family and loved-ones one step closer to justice, Scott stated in a release.
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