Building on a point raised in Tuesday nights debate with U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, his chief rival for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate election, billionaire investor Jeff Greene, continued to hammer Meek as an ineffectual congressman on Wednesday. Greene pointed out that not a single bill authored by Meek passed the House in his eight years in Congress and that he had voted three times for congressional pay raises.
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JERUSALEM -- Two photographs adorn the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less alike -- in life experiences, temperaments and political philosophies -- than Netanyahu, the former commando and fierce nationalist, and Barack Obama, the former professor and post-nationalist.
NEW YORK -- Observing the Michelle Obama vacation controversy unfold, one is of multiple minds.
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis celebrated the 75th anniversary of the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935, which created unemployment insurance. The act was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Aug. 14, 1935.
"Losing a job is never easy, said Solis. Workers facing layoffs wonder how they will continue to support their families while they find work or enter training that will lead to new careers.
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Timing is everything, and savvy shoppers can stretch their dollars beginning Friday the 13th.
The Florida Chamber of Commerce is increasing its bet on Attorney General Bill McCollum in the battle for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Having already spent $225,000 to run a television commercial praising McCollum, the chamber is now forking over another $660,000 to keep the ad on the air
The close contest between Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach and Sen. Dave Aronberg of Greenacres for the Democratic nomination for attorney general is growing increasingly contentious in the final two weeks before the Aug. 24 primary.
Attorney General Bill McCollum, locked in a bitter contest with health-care executive Rick Scott for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, focused on immigration Wednesday in Orlando, proposing a new law similar to one that passed in Arizona. The Scott campaign, meanwhile, fired back with a new commercial, quoting McCollum saying he supported bringing the Arizona law to Florida and then showing the attorney general saying just the opposite.
At their meeting in Orlando, the Florida Feedstock Growers Association (FFGA) endorsed Republican candidate U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam to be the next state agriculture and consumer services commissioner.
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In what appears to be first local newspaper editorial opposing the U.S. Sugar land acquisition, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel today urged the South Florida Water Management District to reject the deal.
Citing a rising tide of costs -- even as the deal has been downsized -- the Sun-Sentinel joined a chorus of critics who say the water district cannot afford to buy the land and build a needed reservoir in western Palm Beach County.
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