With early voting already begun, former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate and the front-runner in the U.S. Senate election, released a new television commercial. The ad features Rubio giving a speech calling for Americans to work together. The ad does not focus on either of his two chief rivals, Gov. Charlie Crist who is running with no party affiliation or Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek.

U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, the Republican candidate in the commissioner for agriculture and consumer services race, unveiled the endorsements of 34 mayors on Tuesday.

From rural communities to urban cities, Adam Putnam recognizes the needs and opportunities that Floridians face from Miami to Milton, said Mayor Tomas Regaldo of Miami. We are confident in his ability to serve each Floridian in making decisions that will keep our state working, growing and moving in the right direction.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston come back to life in a new book by Anna Lillios and the University Press of Florida.

Read Stuart Ferguson's entertaining review of "Crossing the Creek," appearing in today's Wall Street Journal.

Now U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson is asking tough questions about the federal health-care law.

Presiding over a hearing in Richmond, Va., Hudson sounded like U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson as he sparred Monday with government attorneys on the constitutionality of Obamacare.

Questioning Washington's legal right to require citizens to purchase insurance, Hudson said the law's "individual mandate" could open the door for the federal government to require residents to buy a car, join a gym and "eat asparagus." "It's boundless," he said.