Opening another front in its battle against the Hillsborough County School District and a Muslim group, the Florida Family Alliance is attacking a local newspaper's advertising base.
Blasting the Tampa Tribune's "biased" coverage, FFA is targeting 32 of the paper's online advertisers. FFA claims that 34 others have already pulled their ads.
"The Tampa Tribunes omission of the facts and propaganda about [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] is far more destructive than one CAIR official talking to a few hundred students," said FFA president David Caton.
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Gov. Rick Scott will continue his plan to sit down with the editorial boards of each daily newspaper in Florida on Tuesday as he is scheduled to meet with the editorial board of the Tallahassee Democrat.
The one-hour meeting is set for 1 p.m., according to Scott's daily schedule.
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The withdrawal of Luis Garcia from the 26th Congressional District contest leaves the Democratic field open to Alex Penelas, the nominee the national party was courting all along.
Snubbed by DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and frustrated by a lack of party support, Garcia announced Monday night he would not challenge Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami. The state representative said he would run instead for county commission.
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There will be delays in the processing of new court cases and new dockets with a smaller amount of money going to the state's clerks of court under the budget passed last month by lawmakers.
Lawmakers are expected to send the proposed new budget, HB 5001, soon to Gov. Rick Scott, including a 7 percent cut in the budget for the clerks, which comes on top of a more than 15 percent hit the clerks took a couple of years ago.
A longstanding legal charade was played out again recently, when Federal Express paid $3 million to settle an employment discrimination case brought by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Saying the GOP presidential primary battle has gone on long enough, Florida Republican Chairman Lenny Curry says it's time for the party to coalesce behind Mitt Romney.
"I think [Mitt Romney] has made the case -- the other candidates had their shot. Its time to focus on November," Buzzfeed.com quoted Curry as saying today.
Though Romney handily carried the Florida presidential preference primary on Jan. 31, Curry stressed that he is not formally endorsing any candidate until the race is officially over.
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The Hillsborough County School Board isn't backing down in the face of an ongoing campaign to halt Muslim speakers from appearing at local campuses.
At least not yet.
A 2 1/2-hour board workshop on Friday concluded with a general sense that current district policies are adequate.
But the Florida Family Association wants school officials to slam the door on the Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose local director has addressed classes at Steinbrenner High School.
First in a series of profiles of candidates running in the 6th Congressional District, which runs along the northern east coast of Florida.
Fred Costello isn't a "machine" Republican -- and he has the record to prove it.
The state representative from Ormond Beach was the only GOP member of the House to oppose the controversial Medicaid bill, HB 5301, that passed this session.
He introduced six bills, none of which passed the 2012 Legislature.
Former President Bill Clinton told "ABC Monday" that the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin should cause Florida -- and all states that have expanded their concealed weapons laws -- to rethink the Stand Your Ground law.
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Optimism is slowly growing among Florida voters, but consumers in the Sunshine State tended to be a little more pessimistic in March than February, according to recent surveys by the Florida Chamber and University of Florida.
A Florida Chamber Political Institute study released Friday showed that voters were a little more supportive of the direction of the state and Gov. Rick Scott.
