March 8, 2010 - 6:00pm
The union representing Florida teachers lashed out Monday at a bill that would allow teachers hired after July 1 to function under a different set of rules.
Democrats Anoint Rubio Frontrunner
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 8, 2010 - 7:05pm
Marco Rubio is picking up steam in his bid to be Floridas next senator. At least his foes in the Democratic ranks think so.
Florida Democratic Communications Director Eric Jotkoff sends out a constant streams of email bashing Republicans, pointing out their inconsistencies and lambasting their positions.
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More Bad News for Crist Coming Tomorrow
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 8, 2010 - 6:46pm
More bad news for Gov. Charlie Crist after today's New York Times story on his administration's Everglades real estate deal with U.S. Sugar.
Tom Jenson of Public Policy Polling revealed today that his organization will release a poll tomorrow that has brutal numbers for Crist.
The numbers Jenson released so fararent promising for Crist. The poll of Republican primary voters has 19 percent wanting to see Crist as governor for a second term, 14 percent backing Crists Senate ambitions and 56 percent wanting him out of office all together.
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Estimates Rising on EPA Water Standards for Florida
March 7, 2010 - 6:00pm
Stakes are rising in Florida's brewing water war with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"Potentially, this will cost businesses $100 billion to $200 billion, just in capital costs," Kurt Spitzer, executive director of the Florida Stormwater Association, told Sunshine State News Monday.
"Frankly, we're mystified by the (proposed) rules."
Crist Calls NY Times article a "hatchet Job"
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 8, 2010 - 5:20pm
After a months-long investigation, looking over thousands of emails and conducting more than 60 interviews, The New York Times released a report saying Gov. Charlie Crist's Everglades deal seems to really only be a good deal for U.S. Sugar... and Crist's long-time friend, George LeMieux.
Sunshine State News interviewed Crist Monday afternoon for his reaction and he dismissed the extensive research and reporting of The New York Times as a "hatchet job."
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Dark Horse on a Tractor: Randy Hatch Runs for Agriculture Commissioner
Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 8, 2010 - 11:22am
Its not every day that you see a tractor bedecked in American flags driving down Monroe Street in Tallahassee. But then its not every day you meet Randy Hatch, the former commissioner of Suwannee County who is now running to be state agriculture and consumer services commissioner.
In front of the old statehouse, Hatch met with the press to talk about his campaign. Pointing to a crack in the sidewalk, he pointed out that he got his start in politics there when he parked his tractor in front of the capital during the farm strike in 1977.
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Another Republican Disses Crist
Submitted by Anonymous on March 8, 2010 - 11:20am
U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Pensacola, isn't mincing words about the increasingly nasty Senate battle between Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist.
In an op-ed in the Miami Herald, which Miller also excoriates, the congressman from Florida's First District, stated:
"Let us be clear: This entire AmEx story is a ridiculous sideshow; a distraction manufactured by Gov. Charlie Crist's campaign in an attempt to smear Rubio. Crist has fallen far behind in the polls. His staff is starting to quit his campaign. And there's even talk of Crist himself quitting the Republican Party. He is getting desperate. And he's on the attack.
"Marco's American Express statements had to have been taken from the Republican Party of Florida by former RPOF Chairman Jim Greer and likely leaked to The Miami Herald by the Crist campaign.
"What the statements show is that Rubio worked hard to advance the goals of the Republican Party, and he did it as frugally as possible. He spent less in two years than Crist's handpicked RPOF staff spent in one month...
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FEA's Race to Mediocrity
March 6, 2010 - 6:00pm
While most state lawmakers cheer Florida education's "race to the top," the state teachers union is engaged in a "race to mediocrity."
Why do I say that?
Because -- except for the colossally expensive class-size amendment -- the Florida Education Association hasn't been on board for a single significant reform since the mid-1990s, when education in the Sunshine State ranked in the nation's bottom quartile.
Jerry Holbert Cartoon
March 5, 2010 - 6:00pm
Advances: Week of March 7, 2010
March 7, 2010 - 6:00pm
THE CAPITOL, TALLAHASSEE, March 5, 2010..The most awaited news this week may be anti-climactic. For years in the late 90s and early 2000s lawmakers eagerly awaited the revenue estimating update in March, when seemingly year after year they were told that economists had underestimated just how robust the states economy was and what do you know? theres more money coming in than previously thought. Budget writers loved that and projects were routinely stuffed into the spending plan. Then came the bust.
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