After 2 1/2 years of political battle, Gov. Charlie Crist's deal to purchase tens of thousands of acres of land from U.S. Sugar Corp. for Everglades restoration is just days away from closing.
Mayors of New York have not done well when they run for the presidency -- ask John Lindsey, Rudy Giuliani and DeWitt Clinton. Come to think of it, the only New York City resident to sit in the White House was Chester A. Arthur and he got there because James A. Garfield was assassinated ( Teddy Roosevelt was always a bit more Long Island than Manhattan and came to the presidency when William McKinley was assassinated).
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The latest White House shakeup was announced on Friday -- a week after Rahm Emmanuel left his post as chief of staff. On Friday, news broke that Gen. James Jones, who put in 40 years with the Marines and was a special envoy for the Bush administration in 2007 in the Middle East, is leaving his post as White House national security adviser. Jones will be replaced by Tom Donislon, currently serving as Jones deputy.
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Having held a round-table ongang violence earlier in the week, Republican attorney general candidate Pam Bondi released her strategy on Friday to combat the problem.
Bondi stressed her experienced as a prosecutor and noted that she had drawn upon law enforcement groups and youth organizations and charities to formulate her plan.
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With Americans marking the 518th anniversary of Christopher Columbus first voyage on Monday, a bit of the spotlight should fall on Florida. Few Floridians are aware of the important part their state played in the epic and tragic tale of the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World.
Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican nominee in the U.S. Senate race, weighed in on Friday on a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing continued job loss across the nation.
Rubio directed the blame onto the Obama administration.
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Still licking his wounds from losing the Republican gubernatorial primary and refusing to endorse GOP nominee Rick Scott, Attorney General Bill McCollum announced on Friday that his office had finished cracking down on cell-phone providers offering free ringtones and other content that ended up costing Floridians more than they thought.
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Ken Connor, formerly head of the Family Research Council and now with the Center for a Just Society, offered his take on a controversial commercial being run by Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson calling his Republican opponent, former House Speaker Dan Webster, Taliban Dan.
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The U.S. economy lost 95,000 jobs in September, mainly due to the loss of temporary 2010 Census workers and other government jobs, according to the jobs report released Friday by the Labor Department.
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