On the second to last day of his "Let's get to work" jobs tour, Gov.-elect Rick Scott spoke with tourism employees and business leaders aboard the Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas cruise ship.
Florida will get at least one, and possibly two, more congressional districts after the U.S. Census data is released, but the state Legislature will decide where those new districts will be drawn on the map.
Facing the possibility of a $3.5 billion budget shortfall, some state senators see the state employee pension plan as ripe for the plucking.
Having just weathered pre-winter, sub-freezing temperatures, Florida's farms and groves are bracing for another cold encounter next week.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, a noisy critic of the Federal Reserve, will finally get the chance to have oversight of the group that directs the country's monetary policy. It was announced today he will chair the Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee when Republicans take over the House next year.
Paul has consistently called for the elimination of the Federal Reserve, and actually wrote a book called "End the Fed."
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Patricia Kennealy Morrison, widow of 1960s pop star Jim Morrison, told CNN Thursday that if her husband were alive "he would tear this pardon to shreds, it's not applicable, it's meaningless, because he didn't do anything to be pardoned for."
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Florida senators and state officials Thursday took up where so many of their litigious-minded colleagues left off earlier in the week, taking the federal Environmental Protection Agency to task over its water quality standards. Those standards are set to be finalized in August 2012.
The newly appointed chair of the Senates ethics committee hinted Thursday that proposals to give the Florida Ethics Commission some muscle may stand a chance this year, after being brushed aside the past few years.
At least one prominent politician is open to challenging President Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries.
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Bob Burleson of the Florida Transportation Builders Association (FTBA) cheered the news that Florida Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica would chair the congressional Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
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