Attorney General Bill McCollum told some 500 business leaders and water experts in Orlando Friday that he has a specific plan -- in fact, a two-pronged policy initative -- for keeping groundwater flowing in Florida.
Taking another step toward commercial manned space flight, a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Kennedy Space Center Friday.
Built by SpaceX, a Silicon Valley-based company, the nine-engine, 180-foot rocket carried a mock-up of the company's spacecraft, named Dragon.
NASA, which funded the project with $1.6 billion, hopes to use the Falcon-Dragon vehicle for hauling cargo and, someday, astronauts to the International Space Station.
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In the very first sentence of his letter seeking an additional $100 million for Florida from BP, Crist misstates the mileage of Florida coastline along the Gulf of Mexico as 1,260. That's actually the total mileage for all of Florida's coastline. Only a little more than 770 miles of the state's coastline actually borders the Gulf. The other 580 border the Atlantic Ocean.
Read the letter yourself in the attachment.
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Today, Attorney General Bill McCollum negotiated a settlement with Office Depot, Inc. for $4.5 million. The settlement came as a result of allegations against Office Depot that claim the company "overcharged governmental agencies for office supplies in violation of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Practices Act," according to the attorney general's communications office press release.
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In blogging about Attorney General Bill McCollum's appeal to Gov. Charlie Crist to sign the "ultrasound bill," Miami Herald scribe John Frank thought he detected a "contradiction."
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A new third party with a familiar name calling for scaling back the size and cost of government has emerged in Florida hoping to take advantage of voter discontent. The Florida Tea Party is fielding three congressional candidates across Florida in the 2010 election cycle and hopes to have as many as 20 candidates running for seats in the Legislature.
Theres a new powerbroker behind Florida Republicans -- former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Huckabee has moved to Florida and is playing an increasingly prominent role in the Sunshine States politics.
While Republican gubernatorial candidate businessman Rick Scott attacks Attorney General Bill McCollum for links to disgraced former RPOF Chairman Jim Greer, the leaders of the Florida Democratic Party, which has blasted McCollum over Greer, do not think Scott has any credibility when it comes to ethics.
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Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the leading Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, weighed in on the numbers showing the national unemployment rate has gone down to 9.7 percent. Rubio does not think the numbers prove much solace for the economy due to increased government spending, even saying that the job growth is the result of public sector jobs.
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As tar balls washed up on a Florida beach for the first time, Panhandle and state tourism officials began grappling with how to escape a disastrous summer season for the local economy. Angst was most acute in Pensacola Beach, where the mostly-pellet-size oil globs began to appear early Friday.
