Gov. Rick Scott's plan to reform Florida's pension program got a boost from the LeRoy Collins Institute Wednesday in a report descriptively titled, "Trouble Ahead: Florida Local Governments and Retirement Obligations."

Reporting that local government employee retirement obligations are "a bigger, more complex ticking time bomb than previously recognized," the Collins study found that public pension costs are climbing quickly.

At the county level alone, publicly funded pension contributions averaged more than $21 million, up $12 million from just six years ago.

While South Floridians went to the polls on Tuesday to vote in special elections for two legislative seats, both races were very close and the House election could be headed for a recount. Turnout was extremely light with only 6 percent of the registered voters in the districts in Miami-Dade County showing up at the polls and a paltry 1.6 percent of the eligible voters in Broward County casting ballots in the House race.

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack agreed with fellow Florida Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica that the Obama administrations plan to spend $53 billion for high-speed rail projects shows the president is showing no restraint on spending. Mack took aim at the plan on Tuesday, as well as a proposed influx of more than $40 billion to the states for unemployment.