A recent Wall Street Journal headline, "Builders See Returning Florida Market," sounded a positive note for the state's long-languishing real estate sector.
The Sanford-datelined story was pegged on a single statistic: a 70 percent year-over-year increase in construction starts for single-family homes in the Orlando area.
Florida emergency response officials on Monday said they need more resources to battle a plume that sits ominously offshore and could hit some of the states most popular coastal tourist spots by the end of the week.
Florida has absolutely no frame of reference for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill or its effect on the state economy. And officials admit it will take years -- not weeks or months -- before they can respond to all the claims likely to come from the disaster.
When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics.
The TEA Party of Florida squares off against 33 local tea parties and individual Floridians in federal district court in West Palm Beach Wednesday.
The TEA Party, which was sued by rival tea organizations for co-opting the name, seeks dismissal of the lawsuit.
You say it's not politics and it's not business, so why are we blogging it here in Sunshine State News? Because the World Cup and America's hopes on soccer's biggest stage are all politics, all business and far more.
So, here it is, released by FOX Sports Monday afternoon:
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The feud between the Republican Party of Florida and the TEA Party heated up today when TEA consultant Doug Guetzloe's Orlando radio show was canceled and TEA officials suggested the move was politically inspired.
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Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, announced that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was backing his bid for Congress.
We believe that your election to the U.S. House will help produce sustained economic growth and help create more jobs, wrote U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue to Rivera.
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