Whether it's the kind given to students in school or the kind that can detect a disease creeping into the state, tests helped drive the week in Florida.

Tests for Zika continued to provide more troublesome headlines for state officials --- and for the tourism industry that needs a flow of positive stories --- in the form of a second area where the virus is believed to have been transmitted by mosquitoes. That came even as a state economist suggested the fallout from the disease was already likely to take a bite out of state revenues.

While it might be another week until the primary, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is ready for businessman Randy Perkins to win the Democratic nomination to replace Congressman Patrick Murphy who is running for the U.S. Senate. 

Perkins is currently running a radio ad featuring the support of Congressman Alcee Hastings. 

“Randy really knows the struggles of working people and will fight for you in Congress,” Hastings says in the radio spot. 

Florida’s unemployment rate continued to remain constant in July, sitting at an unchanged 4.7 percent according to the latest report from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.