When Gov. Rick Scott says he misspoke, why would anyone who's listened to him mangle words for nearly seven years -- especially his hometown Naples Daily News -- not give him the benefit of the doubt?

Florida's business-recruitment agency isn't giving up on marketing to executives just because its budget has been slashed.

But it might not market to as many.

In scaling back marketing efforts after a cut in state funding, the public-private Enterprise Florida has outlined a $3 million marketing plan for this fiscal year that will reduce national newspaper ads and limit what the agency does at Major League Baseball spring-training games and with NASCAR.

This week, President Donald Trump signed into law a North Florida Republican’s proposal changing veteran higher ed funding to allow more benefits to the surviving spouses and children of military personnel killed in the line of duty.