Up briefly, a website on which Gov. Rick Scott hailed the work of tea party activists has been taken down by the Republican Party of Florida.
"The site was launched prematurely without final content and legal review from the party," said RPOF spokesman Trey Stapleton.
"We have been coordinating with the governor and he agreed with Chairman [Dave Bitner's] decision to pull the site until the review process is complete."
The House joined the Senate in passing SB 736 --a measure changing teacher pay based on performance and assessments instead of relying on seniority and tenure --on Wednesday after a lengthy debate. With the bill having passed both chambers of the Legislature, it now goes to Gov. Rick Scott who is expected to sign it into law.
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With more than 250 Catholics from across Florida gathered in Tallahassee for Catholic Days at the Capitol, the Florida Catholic Conference presented legislators awards for fighting for the Churchs values in the public square.
The conference gave Rep. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, the Defensor Vitae (Latin for Defender of Life) Award, noting that the Republican legislator was continuing to push bills requiring parental notice for teen girls considering having abortions in Florida.
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Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio joined 22 other Republicans in the Senate, ranging on the political spectrum from Richard Lugar of Indiana to Rand Paul of Kentucky, in sending a letter to President Barack Obama on Wednesday focusing on government spending and the deficit.
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While Japan melts down, Col. Gadhafi routs the Libyan rebels and America's economy slides toward stagflation, rest assured that President Barack Obama found time to complete his NCAA basketball brackets.
The commander in chief took a few minutes to go live on ESPN Wednesday, venturing out onto a limb to pick the odds-on favorite Kansas Jayhawks to win it all.
Media personalities were, naturally, impressed with Obama's "grasp of the game." And Americans everywhere are, no doubt, relieved that this president remains right on top of things.
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Undoubtedly eyeing the $2.4 billion Florida passed up, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is lobbying for a federal-state-private partnership to launch a bullet train in the Northeast corridor.
Calling Amtrak's Acela train "a joke" (it only occasionally hits speeds of 100 mph), Rendell and investment banker Peter Peyser envision a public-private partnership in whichthe government entities would own 51 percent of a multistate compact to run a true high-speed rail line through the country's most congested transit corridor.
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The House spent Wednesday afternoon debating SB 736, a measure changing teacher pay based on performance and assessments instead of relying on seniority and tenure. So far, 25 legislators have taken to the floor to debate the bill -- with more to come.
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A bill cracking down on staged-accident scams breezed through a House subcommittee Wednesday, and a fleet of similar reforms is revving up.
House Bill 967 cleared the Insurance and Banking Subcommittee on a 13-2 bipartisan vote after just 45 minutes of discussion. It now heads to the Civil Justice Subcommittee.
The measure, along with companion Senate Bill 1694, cracks down on what insurers call "rampant" fraud involving the state's Personal Insurance Protection (no-fault) program.
During the 2010 session, Bob Burleson, president of the Florida Transportation Builders Association (FTBA), led a coalition that included leaders from the Associated Industries of Florida and Florida TaxWatch to ensure that the Legislature did not pull money out of the State Transportation Trust Fund (STTF).
Burleson repeated his warning on Wednesday after a House subcommittee looked to tap into the trust fund which, Burleson pointed out, is being kept intact in the budget proposals from Gov. Rick Scott and the Senate.
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