Gov. Rick Scotts budget recommendations will not be released until next week, but the kind of proposals his office has preferred so far reveal his approach to providing the savings he promised as a candidate.
As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a measure repealing the federal health care law backed by President Barack Obama, the two leaders who preside over the Legislature sent a letter to Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on Wednesday asking him to support the repeal effort.
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Two Democratic leaders in the Legislature announced Wednesday they will fight to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the 2011 session -- even though the measure has been stalled in Tallahassee for more than 25 years.
WASHINGTON -- In 1994, when Rick Santorum was a second-term Pennsylvania congressman seeking a U.S. Senate seat, a columnist asked him how he was going to win. "Guns," he replied serenely. Pennsylvania's legions of deer hunters do not use assault weapons, which President Bill Clinton was trying to ban, but the hunters suspected that this, like Clinton's wife's health care plan, reflected a pattern of assaults on liberty.
Gov. Rick Scott named a familiar face with experience in the department to head up the Florida Lottery on Wednesday, choosing Cynthia Cindy OConnell to be its secretary.
With RNC Chairman Reince Priebus in Tampa to check out the location of the 2012 GOP convention on Wednesday and calling for Sunshine State Republicans to schedule a later presidential primary, Florida Democratic Party Chairman Rod Smith agreed and called once again for the state to move the primary back.
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On Wednesday, Gov. Rick Scott named Cynthia Cindy OConnell to head up the Florida Lottery.
OConnell, whose experience includes stints in consulting, communications and with the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, also had a stint leading the Division of Research and Promotions for the lottery. She also served on the board of trustees of the University of Florida and is the chairwoman of the Florida House in Washington.
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A Nevada company that once promoted plans for orbiting space hotels signed an agreement with Space Florida Wednesday to conduct launches at Cape Canaveral.
A Merritt Island boater repeatedly cited for violating Manatee Protection Speed Zones in Brevard and Volusia counties was sentenced Wednesday for killing a West Indian manatee.
After a joint investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Joseph F. Miata Jr., 62, was criminally charged by the U.S.attorneys office with killing a manatee and violating the federal Endangered Species Act.
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