Florida's long-running fight about water-quality standards for rivers, lakes and springs could be headed toward a federal appeals court in Atlanta.
Groups on both sides of the fight have given formal notice they could appeal a federal judge's ruling about what are known as "numeric-nutrient criteria" -- an issue that has drawn widespread attention from state policymakers, local governments, business lobbies and environmentalists.
The illegal immigration problem is going away.
That's the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States.
Gov. Rick Scott has conjured up a 12th university that Florida cant afford and nobody but outgoing Polk County Sen. J.D. Alexanderthinks Florida needs.
A federal Health Insurance Tax scheduled to kick in by 2014 will cost small businesses $87 billion and "kill jobs," the National Federation of Independent Business says.
In Congress, an effort to repeal the tax is gaining bipartisan steam.
The "HIT" will have "irreversible consequences" on the national economy, according to the NFIB Research Foundation, which predicted the loss of nearly 250,000 U.S. jobs and $30 billion in sales by 2021 due to the tax.
Floridians didnt wait long to get on the Do Not Call list once the service was made free.
As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, 82,243 people had registered since Monday when the state Division of Consumer Services announced that the $10 fee for new subscriptions and $5 renewal would be lifted.
The fee for subscription was removed as a result of a measure passed by the Florida Legislature, House Bill 749, sponsored by Rep. Dana Young, R-Tampa, and Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, during the 2012 session.
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Accused of being a "cyber-squatter," or worse, GOP congressional candidate Trey Radel on Wednesday began shutting down Web pages that carried the names of three rival candidates in District 19.
Radel's campaign also said it would surrender the rights to some 23 domain names of his opponents.
As first reported by Sunshine State News, personal domain names for Chauncey Goss, Paige Kreegel, Gary Aubuchon and Brian Owens were purchased early last year by the "Friends of Trey Radel," some 11 months before Radel announced his candidacy.
Sanford Commissioner Patty Mahany defended her rejection of the resignation of Police Chief Bill Lee on FOX News on Wednesday.
The commission declined, in a 3-2 vote, to accept Lees permanent resignation on Monday over his handling of the Feb. 26 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, 28.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi, along with Gov. Rick Scott and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, recognized four law enforcement officers and three advocates to commemorate National Crime Victims Rights Week in a ceremony Wednesday in the Cabinet meeting room in the Capitol.
Over the past three decades, we have made significant progress in promoting victims rights, said Attorney General Pam Bondi. The men and women we recognized today have selflessly helped crime victims on their paths to recovery.
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Gov. Rick Scott appointed John W. Alter to the Apalachicola-Chipola-Lower Chattahoochee River Basin seat on the governing board of the Northwest Florida Water Management District.
Alter, 75, of Malone, is a retired public relations executive and manages Alter-Bevis Farms, which was designated as a Florida Stewardship Forest in 2000, according to the governors office.
His public relations experience includes The Boeing Co. from 1983 to 1997, EDO Corp. from 1982 to 1983, Fairchild Industries from 1980 to 1981 and
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