U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the leading candidate in the Democratic primary race for the U.S. Senate nomination, is supporting U.S. Attorney General Eric Holders plan to hold civil and criminal investigations of BP for the oil spill in the Gulf.
"Launching a civil and criminal investigation of BP's role in the Deepwater Horizon tragedy is the right thing to do, said Meek.
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Bolstering the power and reach of Florida's condominium associations, a new state law allows the groups to collect rent from tenants.
Senate Bill 1196, signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Charlie Crist, empowers condo associations to collect rent money directly from tenants in units of delinquent owners.
The oil spill in the Gulf is not going away--physically or as a political issue. House Minority Leader Franklin Sands, D-Weston, is going after reported comments from Jill Chamberlin, the spokeswoman for House Speaker Larry Cretul, R-Ocala. Chamberlin said that a study of offshore drilling requested by incoming Speaker Dean Cannon, cost Florida $200,000.
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No-hit in a perfect game by the Phillies' Roy Halladay, the Florida Marlins are angling to make the most of it by selling unused tickets to the Saturday game.
The tickets are being sold for ... full price.
Among the lowest attendance teams in Major League Baseball, the Marlins have about 10,000 ducats to spare.
Sports memorabilia experts doubt there will be a big demand for these after-market tickets. And at face value, the margin looks pretty thin.
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When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he was meeting with attorneys general from states impacted by the Gulf oil spill, one name was conspicuously absent: Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, the favorite for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
"Obama Struggling to Show He's in Control," reads the headline on The Washington Post's story on Barack Obama's Thursday press conference, where most of the questions were about the Gulf oil spill. "Defensive, unauthoritative and equivocal," wrote Congressional Quarterly's Craig Crawford of Obama's performance. "He came across as a beleaguered bureaucrat in damage control."
In a recent Sunday edition of the New York Times Magazine, the paper posed a multiple choice question:
How much should raising student test scores count in teacher evaluations?
a) 35%
b) 50%
c) 100%
d) Not at all
President Barack Obama's Race to the Top program is challenging state legislators all over the country to find a way to improve education performance at public schools. Evaluating teachers and rewarding or punishing them based in part on their students' test scores was one of the points the contest would evaluate.
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Talking about the Constitution can be dangerous if you work for a Florida State Attorney's Office.
Prosecutor KrisAnne Hall was fired after espousing her "originalist" views at a Tea Party gathering. State Attorney Robert "Skip" Jarvis said such talk was out of bounds.
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On Tuesday, the Associated Industries of Florida (AIF) endorsed Senate President Jeff Atwater, R-North Palm Beach, for state CFO and Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam to serve as commissioner of agriculture and consumer services--but did not endorse any candidates for governor or attorney general.
