Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, spent early Monday afternoon speaking on the House floor. Instead of the usual legion of House members, Hasner was addressing members of the Associated Industries of Florida with its President and CEO Barney Bishop in the first row.
While acknowledging that both the state and the nation were facing tough economic times, Hasner stated there was no recession of ideas and promised that the House would push a bold agenda in 2010.
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Utilities and Public Service Commission staff, take heed.
State senators have started considering passage of a bill that would ban and punish off-the-record communications between PSC staff and utilities on current or upcoming cases. The bill, introduced to the Senate floor Tuesday but tableduntil today, also outlaws off-the-record communicationbetweenthe PSC and the governors office, lawmakers, lobbyists and others.
Ken Morley is back in Florida. The veteran Democratic strategist has signed up with Alex Sink's gubernatorial campaign as the new general consultant, replacing Mark Farinella.
With Republicans still reeling from their own in-house financial management problems, they may be looking to play up some of the financial problems the Democrats have had over the years. They may be tempted to look at a complaint filed against Scott Maddox's short lived gubernatorial campaign in which Alex Sinks new strategist played a small part. If so, they won't find much--at least concerning Morley.
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It starts with the countdown10-9-8-7the anticipation builds.6-5-4.your heart begins to race3-2-1Blastoff! Watching a rocket take off from the Kennedy Space Center on television is an impressive sight. It is a moving experience that leaves you awestruck when you see it in person.
Florida lost more than 38,000 businesses last year and more than 1.1 million hard working Floridians are unemployed. The Florida Chamber of Commerce has a multi-point plan to change all of that in 2010. While government doesnt create jobs, the Florida legislature can, and should, do everything in its power to send a strong message to entrepreneurs that job creation is job one in the upcoming legislative session.
"More talk, no deal" was The Wall Street Journal's headline on Thursday's Blair House health care summit. "After summit flop, Democrats prepare to go it alone on Obamacare," proclaimed the headline here at The Washington Examiner. These were appropriate verdicts if you viewed the summit as an attempt to reach bipartisan agreement or even a limited consensus.
The South Korean government and Space Florida are launching discussions that could put Space Coast technicians to work in the high-speed rail industry.
Soon-Man Hong, deputy minister of South Korea's Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs, is meeting in Tallahassee today and Wednesday with the state aerospace industry board.
Attorney General Bill McCollum's first order of legislative business is to go after attorneys -- and he's hoping the third time will be a charm.
It's one in a series of tort-reform initiatives that will pit business interests against the trial bar at the 2010 session.
Topping McCollum's list of priorities is a bill that would limit the Attorney General's Office from entering into contracts with private attorneys to represent the state.
WASHINGTON -- Reaction to the horror at SeaWorld, a nightmare seldom seen outside Peter Benchley's imagination, has run the exhausted gamut.
"Kill. The. Fish." was one talk-radio host's suggestion. "Save the whale" has been the sentiment of animal lovers, including the victim's family. So goes life in the Land of Twitter.
WASHINGTON -- Peter De Vries, America's wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago but his discernment of this country's cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tendency of America's therapeutic culture to medicalize character flaws:
