In the midst of low-budget dollars and high unemployment discussions for the 2011 legislative session, Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, is taking a detour to help save the lives of children with the use of relatively simple technology.
Foreclosure filings in Florida fell 42 percent in November from the previous month, with one in every 267 housing units receiving a filing last month, according to a report released Thursday by Realty Trac, a California-based company that tracks foreclosed properties.
State Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles Bronson announced on Thursday that, due to the cold weather, he asked for and received an extension of an executive order issued by Gov. Charlie Crist -- moving the suspension of weight restrictions for trucks which were set to expire on Dec. 17 until Dec. 31.
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Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica --soon to be the chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure when the GOP takes control of Congress in January -- named new Republican members of his committee on Thursday, including incoming U.S. Rep. Dan Webster of Florida.
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Four years ago, Alex Sink became the first Florida chief financial officer to win a contested election in her first bid for elected office.
Now, she is looking back at a term that saw her emerge as the face of a Florida Democratic Party hungry for new voices, but fall short in her bid to win the Governors Mansion for the party, which has been in the wilderness there since 1999.
Floridas lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, the federal overhaul of health care, took another step forward Thursday as U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson heard oral arguments in Pensacola.
The deeply unpopular, $1.1 trillion spending bill -- including its more than 6,700 earmarks -- went down in flames Thursday night. And Florida Republicans in Congress can claim their opposition as some of the ammunition that shot it out of the sky.
At the end of the 1972 film The Candidate, Robert Redford, whose character has just been elected to the U.S. Senate, turns to an adviser played by Peter Boyle and demands, What do we do now?
Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan took to the congressional floor on Thursday morning to offer harsh criticism of the spending bill emerging from the Senate -- and call once again for a balanced budget.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney took aim at Senate Democrats for backing a spending bill that is more than $1.1 trillion.
This 1,924-page, $1.2 trillion monstrosity is a slap in the face of the American people, who came out in droves on Nov. 2 and told Congress to cut spending and balance the budget, said Rooney. Our country is in a deep financial hole, but the Democratic majority is inexplicably determined to keep digging until its final breath.
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