Gov. Rick Scott, calling the taxpayers of Florida the winners, signed a budget Tuesday that increases education spending by $1 billion from last year and trims extra spending on lawmakers' favored projects.
With the signing Scott slashed $142.7 in spending for programs such as the Science and Discovery Center of Northwest Florida, the Frank Lloyd Wright House at Florida Southern College and the Bay of Pigs Museum in Miami.
Gov. Rick Scott signed a budget that increases education spending by $1 billion from last year, while slashing $142.7 million from individual legislators' projects such as the Science and Discovery Center of Northwest Florida, the Frank Lloyd Wright House at Florida Southern College and the Bay of Pigs Museum in Miami.
The hallmark of the $70 billion budget for Scott was education, using the A-rated Cunningham Creek Elementary School in St. Johns County at noon Tuesday as the backdrop for signing the 2012-2013 budget.
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Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, expressed, in a letter on Tuesday, being very disappointed that Gov. Rick Scott hasnt met with her and University of South Florida-Polytechnic students, while he did so with the primary champion of the effort to speed up the creation of the states 12th public university.
But that hasnt stopped her from continuing to push Scott to slow down the split of the Lakeland campus into an independent university by vetoing the bill.
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The states budget wont see the slashing that occurred a year ago, Gov. Rick Scott said Tuesday morning, as he prepares for the ceremonial signing of the states $70 billion budget.
Scott said the number of vetoes this year will be substantially less than the $615 million slashed a year ago, as those backing individual line items have done a better job showing the economic return on the investments.
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Gov. Rick Scott wouldnt say if a state investigation is underway into the $10,000 bounty the New Black Panther Party placed on the apprehension of George Zimmerman prior to his arrest in the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford.
But Scott said "any time someone is putting a bounty on someone's head you ought to be looking at that" and there is no need for vigilantes in this state, when speaking on WOKV 690 AM in Jacksonville Tuesday morning.
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A group of former astronauts and the leader of Mission Control are pleading with NASA to cool it on "global warming."
In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham and fellow space farers maintain that, The global-warming hypothesis has never been proved look at the data."
The signatories, who include Mission Control boss Chris Kraft, charged that the agency is endangering the reputation of science itself by advocating the extreme position that carbon dioxide is the major cause of climate change.
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Prior to todays budget signing ceremonies, Gov. Rick Scott is scheduled to meet with the editorial board of the Florida Times Union.
The meeting with the Jacksonville newspaper is scheduled for one hour starting at 10 a.m.
The budget signing ceremony is set for noon at Cunningham Creek Elementary in St. Johns.
A second, ceremonial signing ceremony will be held at 2:10 p.m. at Margaret K. Lewis Exceptional School in Panama City Beach.
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Even before he began rallying for contributions after calling 80 progressive Democrats communists, Rep. Allen West was among the national leaders in the fundraising pack for the quarter ending March 31, according to documents filed with federal election officials.
With $1.8 million in contributions for the first three months of 2012, West has positioned himself among the best-heeled candidates in the nation for the 2012 election cycle, having raised more money in his re-election bid than all but two House members, putting him seventh among all 535 members of Congress.
"Bibi" Netanyahu was disgusted.
"My initial reaction is that Iran has gotten a freebie. It has got five weeks to continue enrichment without any limitation."
