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Florida Foreclosures Drop Significantly

May 12, 2010 - 6:00pm

The number of Florida foreclosures fell in April from a year earlier, mirroring a national trend that indicates a slowing of defaults on mortgages, according to data released Thursday by RealtyTrac.

Floridas foreclosure fell 18 percent from March and was down 25 percent from April 2009. Despite the improvement, the state still posted the second highest number of foreclosures in the nation, with 48,384 properties receiving a foreclosure filing during the month.

Visit Florida to Go Mobile

Alex Tiegen

May 12, 2010 - 6:00pm

Visitors to Florida will soon be able to find tourism hotspots on their iPhones and Blackberries.

Visit Florida, the states public-private tourism marketing corporation, is developing a mobile Web site so that visitors can research the best beaches as they stroll through historic St. Augustine or compare hotel rates while waiting to board Space Mountain at Walt Disney World.

With No Democrat in the Race, Independent Candidates Challenge Jeff Miller

Kevin Derby

May 12, 2010 - 6:00pm

Three challengers have emerged to take on Congressman Jeff Miller, a Republican who was first elected in 2001. Miller represents the Panhandle's 1st Congressional District, which reaches from the Alabama border to Washington County. The district includes Pensacola and Fort Walton Beach.

Union Rules: What About the Rest of Us?

Kenric Ward

May 12, 2010 - 6:00pm

The $1.4 million in raises for law-enforcement agents in the state's Fish and Wildlife division may smack of a political payoff to a friendly labor union, but other unions say there are bigger forces at work.

"Yeah, they were able to slip (the raise) in. Our people aren't happy," said Doug Martin of AFSCME Council 79, which represents 55,000 state workers.

But, he added, "The raise is legitimate when 25 percent of your employees are leaving."

League of Cities Names Evers N.W. Fla. Legislator of the Year

Submitted by Kevin Derby on May 13, 2010 - 4:11pm

Conservative Rep. Greg Evers, R-Baker, is having a good week. Besides having chased Rep. Dave Murzin, one of his main rivals, out of the state senate contest Friday, Evers has now been named the Northwest Florida Legislator of the Year by the Florida League of Cities.

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Supremely Confident, Crist Makes Nice With Democrats

Submitted by Anonymous on May 13, 2010 - 3:52pm

If you can believe the tweet, Gov. Charlie Crist thinks Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan would "do a great job."

That's the sound bite from a St. Pete Times Twitter posting this afternoon, and it has a ring of authenticity, given Crist's tendency to tilt toward Democratic positions.

The U.S. Senate candidate, who officially surrendered his Republican Party registration today, has not only embraced President Barack Obama (and, now, apparently, his high court choice), he's echoing other Dems as well.

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Holly Benson Backs New AZ Immigration Law

Submitted by Kevin Derby on May 13, 2010 - 3:34pm

While some Florida Republicans are criticizing Arizona for its new law looking to curb illegal immigration, others are praising the measure.

Former Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Holly Benson, running in a tight Republican primary for the attorney general nomination, blasted the Los Angeles City Council today for voting to boycott business from Arizona due to new law.

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Jeff Stahler Cartoon

May 13, 2010 - 6:00pm

Jerry Holbert Cartoon

May 13, 2010 - 6:00pm

Backfiring Boycotts Make Immigration the Surprise Issue of 2010

Nathan Spicer

May 13, 2010 - 6:00pm

No one has been more startled than this pollster that immigration has burst onto the scene as an issue more significant to most Americans than health care, financial bailouts and the economy.

So maybe I'm a better pollster than prognosticator. But I do have enough horse sense to trace the trajectory of a new issue once it gets to be headline news.

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