The U.S. Senate campaign takes to the airways this week with former House Speaker Marco Rubio launching his first TV ad.
Rubios camp emailed supporters with the subject line I want my M-TV, linking to the new ad that will begin airing on TV stations around the state Thursday.
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More bad news on the employment front. The U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation came out with new numbers today. Floridas unemployment rate was 11.9 percent for January, up from 11.7 percent in December. This matches the unemployment rate in May 1975 as the highest unemployment in Floridas history.
Florida continues to drag behind the nation in terms of unemployment as the national average is 9.7 percent.
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Politicians who live in glass mansions shouldn't throw stones. But here comes Charlie Crist accusing Marco Rubio of loading up on pork through Community Budget Issue Requests.
Shocked? Hardly. Crist, as a former state senator, knows the CBIR game. Legislators shamelessly use the system to fund pet projects outside the usual budget channels.
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Ever wanted to give Florida government the business over the hassels it gives you as a business owner?
Well, state government would like to give business the business -- in a good way, of course.
The Senate's Regulated Industries Committee briefly workshopped, but did not vote on, a new Seminole Gambling Compact bill that gives four Seminole casinos in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties the exclusive rights to banked card games and strips the Governor's office of the ability to make a compact that does not comply with the bill.
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Medicaid is sick, and it's giving Florida a case of budget consumption.
Gobbling up nearly a third of the state's revenues, the medical program for the indigent and disabled is projected to cost Floridians $19 billion this year -- a billion more than last year.
What's worse, patients are unhappy about the level of care they receive, and some providers flat-out refuse to serve them.
Think twice before you bet against the governor's Seminole gambling compact.
Now, I'm not predicting the Florida Legislature is going to OK the deal. We've got too many miles to go, too much major legislation still in committee. It's just that I'm catching some of the nervous, where's-the-money-gonna-come-from buzz.
THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, March 9, 2010State economists mostly held steady Tuesday in their forecast of tax collections for the year ahead meaning lawmakers continue to face a budget shortfall of as much as $3.2 billion.
The states four-person Revenue Estimating Conference revisited the economic forecast it last made in December, concluding that lawmakers will have $56.1 million more than expected for the 2010-11 budget year and $25.3 million in additional money for the current spending year.
