Incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, named his leadership team Tuesday, tapping Sen. Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, as president pro tempore, while Sen. Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, was selected to serve as the Republican leader.
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Outgoing Gov. Charlie Crist says one of his top orders of business is to fill judicial vacancies. With 10 open slots, including five circuit court positions and one appellate court vacancy, conservatives should beware.
The guv's appointments have been a mixed bag at the Supreme Court. Two of his most recent picks -- Jorge Labarga and James Perry -- appeared to be affirmative-action hires as they were sent up by the Judicial Nominating Commission per Crist's request for more "diversity."
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A Florida Republican offered his thoughts on the one year anniversary of the Fort Hood shootings -- U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney. Rooney, who served in the JAG corps of the U.S. Army and serves on the House Committee on Armed Services, offered his thoughts on the tragedy on Fox News.
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With bedbugsa real problem in New York, outgoing Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles Bronson and state Surgeon General Dr. Anna Viamonte-Ros warned Floridians that the bugscould be a problem in the Sunshine State.
Bronson cautioned Floridians on Monday to be careful when trying to fight them and, as they come out at night and are often hard to detect, to bring in licensed contractors to fight them.
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Late last week President Barack Obama appointed state DEP Secretary Mimi Drew to serve as Floridas representative on the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force -- a move that received the strong backing of Gov. Charlie Crist on Monday.
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The Florida Family Association (FFA), led by executive director David Caton, continues to pressure companies that advertise their products on television shows with controversial content -- taking aim at shows on Spike TV and a branch of Nickelodeon.
Spike TVs Blue Mountain State continues to mock Christianity and push the envelope with very explicit material, wrote Caton. One of the new fall episodes of Blue Mountain State is titled Born Again. This episode belittles the confession of sin to God and mocks the relevance of the Christian church.
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The campaign to oust Florida Supreme Court Justices Jorge Labarga and James Perry is turning on three other justices who voted to kill Amendment 9.
The ballot measure, which would have given Floridians the opportunity to vote against Obamacare, was removed because of "unclear" wording on a 5-2 vote.
Labarga and Perry survived the late-blooming anti-retention campaign this month, with Labarga receiving the lowest approval percentage in the 32-year history of such votes.
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EPA Secretary Lisa Jackson on Monday pushed a federal task force to go beyond its immediate charge to look into ecosystem damage caused by the Gulf oil spill and explore ecological problems in the system that pre-dated the disaster.
Florida homeowners are likely breathing a sigh of relief now that another hurricane season has nearly come and gone without a major storm hitting the state, but some property insurance policyholders could see their wind protection swept away next year.
Newly elected Rep. Allen West says he wants to join the Congressional Black Caucus. So far, the Republican has not been warmly embraced.
