A reliable estimate of the amount of money needed to satisfy cash assistance and Food Stamp requests from Florida families in dire straits because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill wont be known for months.
Heard enough Medicare horror stories? Here's another chapter in the making.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday that Rotech Healthcare was awarded 17 contracts for service.
That's good news for the Orlando company, but potentially precarious for the public purse, warns the Accredited Medical Equipment Providers of America, a Miami-based trade association.
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Former President of the Florida Senate Ken Pruitt is running for St. Lucie County property appraiser in a special election. The Republican lawmaker-turned-governmental-affairs-consultant is looking to step into the position in place of Jeffrey Furst, who died of a stroke last week.
Qualifying for the position is set for Thursday.
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Rick Scott, the front-runner for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, released a new radio ad, calling on the Legislature to pass an immigration reform measure during nextweek's special session, like the one backed by Arizona.
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A bit of peekaboo, I see you luck befell Florida Democrats on Tuesday, when the Democratic National Committee noticed how toasty the state's highest-profile races were getting and expressed its excitement with a tidy contribution.
The DNC tossed $333,000 of its $2 million mid-term pot to Sunshine State Dems. In fact, the national party gave big bucks like these only to states where Democrats have a chance of winning Ohio and Florida.
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WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin, the ubiquitous enchantress of the disenchanted, may not have been ready to lead the free world back when John McCain anointed her as his running mate. But she's left rubber on the road that leads to fame, fortune and a new feminine mystique that drives certain men and women wild -- in very different ways.
For what it's worth, I get a kick out of Sarah. May I call her Sarah?
Tea partiers and a Republican political action committee say they will descend on South Florida Water Management District headquarters today to protest the agency's purchase of U.S. Sugar property for Everglades restoration.
Lets Get to Work Florida, a 527 organization that is supporting Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Scott, released a new video attacking Attorney General Bill McCollum, Scotts main rival for the GOP nomination. The ad hammers McCollum for switching positions on issues ranging from stem cell research to immigration laws. The ad closes with speculation of what McCollum would try to do to keep up with Scott, and then shows a photo of McCollum with no hair -- shades of Scotts increasingly famous bald head.
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A new pollreleased Tuesday by Reuters and Ipsos shows Gov. Charlie Crist leading the race for the U.S. Senate seat while Rick Scott is the favorite in the gubernatorial race.
The poll has independent candidate Crist at 35 percent while former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican nominee, places second with 28 percent. U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, who is facing a tough primary fight for the Democratic nomination from billionaire financier Jeff Greene, pulled 17 percent.
When Meek is replaced by Greene, Crist leads Rubio 34 percent to 29 percent.
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