The state Agency for Workforce just released the unemployment numbers for May. The unemployment rate dropped from 12 percent in April to 11.7 percent for May. While Floridas unemployment rate still far exceeds the national average, it is decreasing at a faster rate. The national figures went down from 9.9 percent in April to 9.7 percent in May.
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Gov. Charlie Crist clarified on Thursday that he thinks judges ought to be allowed to decide on a case-by-case basis whether gay couples can adopt children rather than continuing a statewide ban, the only one in the nation.
I think thats a decision best left to judges, Crist said while speaking to a group of newspaper editors in Sarasota. A better law would be to allow judges to make that decision on a case-by-case basis.
It's like a scene from the 1984 film "Red Dawn."
First we see one parachute drop to the ground, then two. Then more. And all of a sudden the sky is dark with foreign invaders falling on Florida, on our turf, in our back yard.
It's happening right now, and this time it's not foreign invaders.
It's TEA Partiers. The fake ones who masquerade as grass-roots conservatives but are anything but. They've been invading our Florida House races all day long. And not just any old races.
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Bill McCollums campaign team continued their attacks on Rick Scott, the health care executive now leading the Republican gubernatorial contest.
In the spirit of openness and transparency, Bill McCollum will release his tax returns in the next 14 days, said McCollum communications director Kristy Campbell. We challenge Rick Scott to do the same.
The McCollum campaign continued to blast Scotts record in the private sector.
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With Republican Craig Miller starting to run television commercials on his congressional campaign, the Florida Democratic Party blasted the former Ruth's Chris CEO on Thursday.
The real Craig Miller opposes common-sense limits on drunk driving, was fired as CEO of Ruth's Chris Steak House for poor financial management, and was given a multimillion-dollar severance package, said a release from the Democrats.
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In his first address in the state capital, Republican Rick Scott told a crowd of about 350 on Tuesday that, if elected governor, he will fight for reduced regulation, tighter control on immigration and less taxation.
Hoping to push lawmakers into a cleaner, renewable future, a new business group announced Thursday that it will convene a Florida Energy Summit July 8 in Orlando.
Citizens for Clean Energy -- a coalition of businesses, educational institutions and community groups -- will host the conference at the Orlando World Center Marriott. State Senate President-designate Mike Haridopolos will moderate discussions on clean energy and future energy policy.
Between the filing appearances of GOP gubernatorial candidates Rick Scott and Bill McCollum at the Division of Elections on Thursday, former Tallahassee Mayor Scott Maddox filed his paperwork to run for commissioner of agriculture and consumer services -- and announced he was being backed by one of his chief rivals for the Democratic nomination.
Accompanying Maddox was former Suwannee County Commissioner Randy Hatch, who had been running for the nomination for the Democratic nomination for more than a year
WASHINGTON -- Evidently Hamid Karzai did not get the memo on terminology. U.S. military commanders have stopped using the word "operation" to describe the drive, now delayed, against the Taliban in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city. This word connotes danger and stirs dread among the population, whose allegiance is the prize for which counterinsurgency is waged.
