Any future court building will have to be approved by the state courts administrator, and that office will assign someone to monitor the project, under an order issued Monday by Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady in response to the controversy over the new district appeals court building in Tallahassee.
Mark Hinkle, the chairman of the Libertarian Party, offered lukewarm praise for President Barack Obama easing travel and financial restrictions on Cuba.
The president has shown less-than-tremendous courage here, said Hinkle on Tuesday. I suppose it's a tiny positive step that our government will permit Americans to send $500 to a Cuban every three months. And churches will be allowed to arrange trips to Cuba, as long as they jump through a lot of bureaucratic hoops first.
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Lanny Wiles, a longtime fixture of Florida and national politics who most recently served on Rick Scotts team, has joined the Advocacy Group at Cardenas Partners. Al Cardenas, a senior partner at the Advocacy Group, announced Wiles was joining their team on Tuesday.
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With 2012 looming on the horizon, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called on Tuesday for Congress to repeal the health care law passed last year with the support of President Barack Obama.
Huckabee, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, offered strong support for repeal which will be pushed by the new Republican majority in the U.S. House on Wednesday.
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Some numbers to ponder as you sit in traffic and contemplate the cost of high-speed rail in Florida:
There are 448,800 feet in the 85-mile trip from Tampa to Orlando.
The average passenger bus is 55 feet long.
Placed end to end, it would take 8,160 buses to reach 85 miles.
At an average cost of $200,000 per bus, the cost would total $1.632 billion (roughly half the high-speed rail's projected $3 billion-plus price tag)
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Gov. Rick Scott said creating more jobs and opportunities and leveling the playing field for everyone -- that's the best way to achieve Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a society where character, not skin color, is the determinant factor.
Speaking from the Governors Mansion Monday night in Tallahassee during a reception to honor King, Scott said the civil rights leaders dream will best be fulfilled by actions, not words.
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Gov. Rick Scott said creating more jobs and opportunities and leveling the playing field for everyone -- that's the best way to achieve Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a society where character, not skin color, is the determinant factor.
Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, met with Gov. Rick Scott Monday to talk about Florida's transportation projects, including a high-speed rail line connecting Tampa and Orlando.
Mica, of Winter Park, who represents Florida's 7th Congressional District, called for no more government funding for the project and said he and Gov. Scott are on the same wave length.
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Dave Bitner isn't the only incoming Republican chairman who needs to assure tea parties. New RNC boss Reince Priebus raised the hackles of some tea partiers who feel they're not getting enough respect.
Attacked by Hispanics and ridiculed by the mainstream media, Arizona-style immigration legislation appears to be dead on arrival in Tallahassee this year.
