Over 150 bills will go into law Friday, including the state’s $82 billion budget, a bill to allow parents to transfer their children to any public school that isn’t at capacity, and a bill to cut off funding to organizations associated with abortion clinics.

Lawmakers approved nearly 300 bills during this year’s legislative session. The House passed a slightly higher number of bills (129) over the Senate (116). There were 27 local bills passed during this year’s legislative session. Gov. Scott vetoed three bills, leaving the grand total of bills passed at 269.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson does diddly in Washington, but when there's something going on back home, he's a master at hanging out with the drama.

The South Florida Water Management District takes its share of heat every time the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is forced to discharge water from Lake Okeechobee west or east. But particularly now, with the spread of so much blue-green algae, the district is inundated not only with questions, but with answers they say aren't even close.

Here is a chart SFWMD staff has produced to try to help residents understand blue-green algae, what about it is true and what isn't.

"See that little stream? We could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it -- a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind."

     -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Tender Is The Night"