U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is hoping to capitalize on Gov. Charlie Crist's apparent party affiliation switch. Hiscampaign launched a Web site hoping get 2,400 donors by April 26.
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Commercial truckers want the ability to haul heavier loads over county and local roads, and they're hoping a measure that obliges them will speed through the Legislature in its last week.
For the second week in a row, Congress seemed to be doing very little in the light of day, in either the House or Senate chambers.
With Kendrick Meek leaving Congress to run for the U.S. Senate, a crowd of candidates has jumped into the Democratic primary to take his place.
Including Pembroke Pines, Miramar, North Miami and North Miami Beach, the district was 55 percent African American and 21 percent Hispanic as of the last federal census. The district also contains some of the largest Haitian communities in the nation, and almost 40 percent of the district was born outside the United States.
With more than 100 bills on the calendar when it convened Friday morning, the House plowed through a host of measures and amendments. Members passed a few, including a measure to expand placing cameras on stoplights, but they mostly set the stage to tackle more bills next week.
The seven-hour session Friday focused on amending measures that the House will vote on next week. But the House also passed efforts that increased legal penalties for credit and debit card crimes and exempted All-Star games and Pro Bowls from sales taxes.
Don't look now, but the University of Central Florida is huge.
It's surpassed even giants like the University of Florida to become the country's third largest university, with a student body numbering around 53,000. Leading those students are Brian Peterson and Michael McGriskin, who hold top jobs in UCF's Student Government Association and work to serve their peers' countless interests.
A bill that Rep. Ron Reagan, R-Bradenton, introduced authorizing cameras to be placed on traffic lights to bust drivers who run red lights, with fines up to $158, passed the House on a 77-33 vote.
I truly believe this is a public safety issue and that the money will go on to health care, said Reagan.
This is nothing more than a revenue grab, said Rep. Robert Schenk, R-Spring Hill, who fought against the measure. Government has an insatiable appetite for our taxpayers hard-earned money.
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The House honored Mallory Horne today. Horne, the only man to serve as Senate President and House Speaker since Reconstruction, passed away last April of lung cancer. Horne was a key leader in keeping Tallahassee as the state capital. Horne ran for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1974 in an 11 candidate field but placed behind Bill Gunter and eventual winner of the run-off Richard Stone.
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Aiming for a piece of $2.5 billion in federal funding, Florida officials are seeking to restore passenger rail service between Miami and Jacksonville.
As national endorsements roll in for Marco Rubio's U.S. Senate bid, Charlie "What, Me Worry?" Crist seems decidedly unimpressed.
"I care what my fellow Floridians think and what their thoughts are much more than anybody from Washington," the glib governor says.
While only the most rabid neocons were likely to be impressed when Dick Cheney threw his support to Rubio this week, rank-and-file Floridians have been abandoning Crist in droves.
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