The perennial push to funnel construction funds to charter schools is running into another brick wall of political opposition erected by school districts and a liberal advocacy group.
Though charter schools serve an expanding enrollment of more than 160,000 Florida students at nearly 500 campuses across the state, these free public schools receive little or no capital funding.
On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott named Ed Moore, the president and CEO of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida and a contributor to Sunshine State News, to the board of directors of Workforce Florida. His term starts on Tuesday and ends July 6, 2014.
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The battle between Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum to win the Michigan Feb. 28 primary is tightening -- and getting nastier.
Two polls released Tuesday show different winners. Last week, Santorum led Romney --who won the Michigan Republican primary back in 2008 and whose father was governor of the state during the 1960s --in a series of polls of the Great Lakes State.
How's this for refreshing honesty?
Sheldon Adelson, the septuagenarian CEO of Las Vegas Sands casino, a guy who has so much money $1 million is probably stuck in his couch somewhere, makes no bones about enjoying the influence his money can buy.
Seriously, what else is it for?
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A Rasmussen Reports poll released on Tuesday finds Rick Santorum leading the pack of Republican presidential candidates in Michigan. The Great Lakes State holds its primary on Feb. 28. Earlier in the day, a Mitchell/Rosetta Stone poll found Romney in the lead.
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The governors office helped plug a bill that could have sped up the oil exploration-to-drilling process on certain state-owned lands.
Sen. Charlie Dean, R-Inverness, chairman of the Environmental Preservation Committee, postponed the Senate version of the bill, SB 1158, on Tuesday.
The bill would authorize state land-management agencies to enter public-private partnerships on state-owned lands with the private company that explored for oil if the yield can produce near-term revenue for the state.
Many liberals fall into the odd trap of arguing that politics and government can change everything, while insisting that individual leaders cannot make much of a difference.
As Florida moves to restrict where those on federal assistance can use their state-issued debit-style assistance cards, a News 4 I-team investigation from NBC New York is reporting that thousands of dollars issued to New Yorkers are ending up in Las Vegas, Hawaii and Florida.
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Anyone reading Sunshine State News is probably already familiar with the work of National Review Online's Jay Nordlinger. He's a veteran journalist. He's smart. And if you haven't been following his commentary on the Republican debates, you should know he's got a keen eye for personal decorum.
All of those qualities come to bear in today's profile of New Mexico's Gov. Susana Martinez.
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Go West, young man, go West, wrote famed American politician and journalist Horace Greeley to veterans looking for opportunities after the Civil War. While Greeley should have followed his own advice -- he was buried out west (and the rest of the nation) when he ran against Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election -- Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is looking west to salvage his campaign.
