WASHINGTON -- Stiffening their sinews and summoning up their blood, pugnacious liberals and conservatives who relish contemporary Washington's recurring Armageddons are eager for a summer-long struggle over Barack Obama's nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. They should pause and ponder how recently and radically the confirmation process has changed.
Today often-left-behind St. Lucie County wasn't.
U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla. announced St. Lucie won a competitive $286,298 grant for Indian River and St. Lucie habitat conservation planning from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"This grant will give some relief to local taxpayers and landowners by providing federal funds to support conservation efforts," Rooney said. "This funding will help identify areas of need and find potential habitats for some of Florida's threatened and endangered species."
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Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has the money to weather almost any major hurricane to strike the state, the chief financial officer of Floridas state-run insurance company told the governor and his cabinet.
In a presentation Tuesday, Citizens CFO Sharon Binnun revealed the company is in a better financial position than it has ever been.
Citizens has $14 billion to pay claims in 2010, $11 billion in cash and assets, and $3.9 billion in surplus to stay afloat if a catastrophe occurs.
The decapitation of the Polish government last weekend, including President Lech Kaczynski and the military leadership, on that flight to Smolensk to commemorate the Katyn Massacre, brings to mind the terrible and tragic days and deeds of what many yet call the Good War.
As whispers continued to grow that Gov. Charlie Crist plans to veto the teacher performance pay measure, business leaders met at the Capitol on Tuesday to lobby the governor to be bold, to strike a blow for education excellence and to sign the legislation into law.
We know that there has been vocal opposition, but we want the governor to know teachers, educators, and business leaders support him and this good bill, said Marshall Criser, the chair of the Florida Council of 100s Pre-K-14 Education Committee.
The proposed constitutional amendment on redistricting could be getting some company.
GOP Senate leaders have directed staffers to draft an alternative proposal to the Fair Districts amendment on the November ballot.
Advocates for Fair Districts contend that the party in power -- currently the Republicans -- distort the redistricting process for partisan gain. The group wants to apply more objective standards to maintain community integrity and improve representation.
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Following today's Sunshine State News story on SunRail, a transportation analyst cites more discouraging numbers about the cost-benefit of high-speed rail (HSR) ventures.
"One of the rationales for both the California and Florida HSR projects is to relieve congestion on, respectively, I-5 and I-4, both of which are projected to need widening over the next decade or two," Robert Poole testified at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Washington, D.C.
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In the wee hours of Friday morning, long after most of us were asleep, Florida's lawmakers made dramatic changes to their state's education system. They took reform to a new level.
