As Florida schools look for ways to cover ever-rising transportation costs, two bills authorizing districts to sell bus advertising would seem to be a natural.
But, a negative analysis by the state Department of Education has the measures going nowhere fast.
Gov. Charlie Crist is backing Attorney General Bill McCollums plans to challenge the constitutionality of the federal health care legislation that President Barack Obama signed into law today.
Crist said, The Democrats refused to pass meaningful, bipartisan health care legislation with real solutions and instead passed a bill that includes an extensive government overreach and intrusion into our citizens personal freedoms.
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Two of the Republican candidates running for attorney general have come out swinging at the federal health-care legislation that President Barack Obama signed into law today.
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State lawmakers convene each year to conduct a legislative session that has one legal requirement -- approve next year's budget.
What that means is the governor, the Senate and the House each get an initial crack at where to spend tax dollars. They then try and work through their differences toward common ground and a final budget plan.
The first big step in that process was completed Tuesday with the release of the House budget plan. The Senate released its budget Monday, while the governor released his budget weeks ago.
Former Senate President Ken Pruitthad barelyleft the building before his Republican colleagues went to work trashing his legacy.
By the end of this session, the Bright Futures Scholarship program, one of the mostpopular legislative initiatives of the last several decades in Florida, will liegasping for breath on the Senate floor.
What a sad and senseless story.
State lawamkers Monday took a step toward allowing businesses to ask parents to sign a liability waiver before a child sets foot on a climbing wall, puts on a scuba tank or engages in other injury-prone activities.
Republicans, with Attorney General Bill McCollum leading the charge, are preparing to specifically challenge the federal mandate that every citizen have health insurance coverage.
Last week, McCollum unveiled plans to sue the federal government as soon as the health care legislation passed. He asked other states to join him.
The Florida Board of Governors has withdrawn its lawsuit over the right to raise tuitions at the state's 11 public universities. The suit has been ongoing since 2007, when universities sought to raise tuition by 5 percent. Gov. Charlie Crist just sent out his response:
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Last Spring, for the first time in 33 years, there was no graduation address at Pace High School in Milton.
Mary Allen, the senior class president and a devout Christian, was prepared to thank God for her success in front of teachers and school administrators, but the school wouldn't let her.
Such speech is a violation of state law and can carry a fine of $5,000 and up to six months in jail.
Allen told her story Monday to members of the House Civil Justice and Courts Poilicy Committee.
