Lagging in the polls and now running short on cash, Attorney General Bill McCollums campaign came out guns a-blazing Monday, attacking health-care executive Rick Scott, its candidate's chief rival for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, for suing the state in an attempt to change campaign finance laws.
The University of Florida won a $1 million federal grant for a research project that aims to dramatically improve the use and production of energy.
The UF project -- officially called Vapor Absorption/Adsorption: A New-Generation Solar and Waste Heat Power Absorption Chiller -- "will develop a next-generation solar and waste heat-powered absorption chiller and refrigeration system that is an order of magnitude smaller than the existing systems with a significantly reduced cost," the Department of Energy announced in a statement Monday.
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Beginning Jan. 1, a series of tax increases and reduced deductions will kick in. Chief among them: the unhappy resurrection of the federal "death tax."
Democrats in Washington say the tax-code changes are needed to generate revenue. But two think tanks in Florida call them job killers that will prolong the state's economic downturn and thwart recovery.
Watch Sunshine State News on Tuesday for a story that itemizes the changes and assesses the impact.
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Citizens Against Government Waste is taking aim at two members of the U.S. House delegation from Florida in its newest Pork Alert. Looking at the 2011 proposed budget for the federal Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the group included the following jab at two Florida Democrats:
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio floated the creation of a "Gulf Empowerment Zone" Monday while dismissing Gov. Charlie Crist's cleanup efforts as a "photo op."
"The economic impact of this spill is as big as the environmental impact," Rubio said during a teleconference in which he hammered both the Obama administration and Crist, his chief rival in this fall's U.S. Senate race.
If you could spend vast amounts of other people's money just by saying a few magic words, wouldn't you be tempted to do it? Barack Obama has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers' money just by using the magic words "stimulus" and "jobs."
Florida Right-to-Life PAC endorsed Sen. John Thrasher, R-Jacksonville, on Monday for re-election. Thrasher, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, faces Deborah Gianoulis, a long-serving news anchor in Jacksonville, who is running as a Democrat and Charles Pernciaro in the Republican primary.
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Republicans in Florida, looking to push an immigration law in Florida similar to recent measures pushed in Arizona, will be heartened by a new poll taken by Rasmussen Reports. The poll found that Floridians want a similar measure to the one that passed in Arizona, with 62 percent favoring that type of legislation, 24 percent opposing and 14 percent remain undecided.
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Six days after writing a letter laying out his take on where the Obama administration and Democrats in Washington have gone wrong, incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, has not heard back from U.S Sen. Bill Nelson.
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