Florida Right To Life President Carrie Eisnaugle sent Gov. Charlie Crist a letter, urging him to support a measure the Legislature passed requiring women considering abortions in the first trimester to have ultrasounds.
This bill prevents taxpayer funding of abortion, which is extremely unpopular with the people, wrote Eisnaugle,
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Attorney General Bill McCollums gubernatorial campaign team has been hyping their candidates speech in Jacksonville today on economics and job creation -- and with Florida facing 12 percent unemployment, they have reason to. Jobs remain one of the chief issues in the Sunshine State.
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The home of Mickey Mouse and Spider-man attracted more tourists than anywhere else in the nation last year -- despite Central Florida's 4.7 percent decrease in tourism.
Orlando, home of Walt DIsney World, Universal Studios and virtually no end of whimsical lands, attratcted 46.6 million visitors in 2009, reports tourism statistics company D.K. Shifflet & Associates.
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Speculation continues to grow that Bud Chiles, the son of late Gov. Lawton Chiles, will be jumping into the Democratic gubernatorial primary to take on state CFO Alex Sink. That speculation will only increase after a statement that Bud Chiles released today.
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A band of alternative energy activists staged a rally on the steps of the Old State Capitol on Monday, urging Gov. Charlie Crist to follow through with a decision to call for a special session of the Legislature to consider a ban on oil drilling.
This month, three members of Congress have been beaten in their bids for re-election -- a Republican senator from Utah, a Democratic congressman from West Virginia and a Republican-turned-Democrat senator from Pennsylvania. Their records and their curricula vitae are different. But they all have one thing in common: They are members of an appropriations committee.
Former Mayor Maurice Ferre, currently running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, took President Barack Obama to task on relations with Israel. His campaign released a position paper on American-Israeli relations.
President Obama needs to address Israeli fears, said Ferre. He addressed the fears of the greater Muslim world by going to Cairo. He needs to go to Israel and make a similar sincere gesture of outreach.
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CFO Alex Sink, the favorite to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, issued a letter to President Barack Obama asking for the federal government to handle claims made by Floridians against BP due to the Gulf oil spill. She is also asking for the federal government to take over the efforts to stop the leak.
For too long we have relied on BP and its contractors to staunch the flow of oil, and they have failed us at every turn, said Sink. We are now more than a month out from this disaster, and Floridians want to know: Where is the federal governments leadership?
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Think Charlie Crist had his share of drama and problems with his fellow Republicans during his time in office? Then you've never come across Harrison Reed, Floridas moving target of a GOP governor from 1869 until 1873. Reed died 111 years ago Tuesday, on May 25, 1899.
