Duncan: Top teachers should make $150,000
While lawmakers worked away the afternoon in the state Capitol, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan stopped by Tallahassee Community College to tout the importance of workforce education. The town...
View ArticleBeam me up, Newt. Gingrich soars in the Space Coast.
Newt Gingrich drew a standing room only crowd to a hotel ballroom in Cocoa. The doors were shut after about 700 people arrived, a crowd so large that many stood behind the TV cameras, laughing as an...
View ArticleVideo: Florida Greenways Advertising Bill
Another advertising bill is making its way through the Florida legislature. This time a bill has been introduced that would allow the sponsorship of Greenways and Rails to Trails.
View ArticleGingrich's Florida momentum not enough in a general election, Suffolk poll finds
Newt Gingrich may have momentum, but a Suffolk University poll for WSVN-Fox 7 found he'd be a weaker contender than Mitt Romney in a general election contest against President Barack Obama. A seperate...
View ArticleMiami lawmaker gets spoofed into calls on casino bill
A pro-casino group called hundreds of constituents of Miami Rep. Carlos Trujillo last week using the caller ID of of the Miami Republican's Tallahassee office. After more than 250 calls came into...
View ArticleWater pollution bill clears another committee, ready for House floor
A proposal environmentalists say would weaken the state’s water pollution rules was approved by a House panel Thursday. The bill’s next stop is the House floor. HB 7051 would allow Florida to override...
View ArticleNewt, the final frontier
Newt Gingrich's Space Coast speech last night about colonizing the moon isn't so new. When he was a relatively new member of Congress, in 1981, then-Rep. Gingrich sponsored the National Space and...
View ArticleSantorum: Sticking it out, if not in Florida
Down in public polling, Rick Santorum has no event scheduled on Election Day in Florida. He's heading out of the state Friday after several events here to raise money in Pennsylvania and Virginia (and...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich: elites foreclosed on Floridians, used $ to help Romney in...
Speaking in friendly territory -- before a tea party crowd of about 500 in Central Florida's bucolic Mount Dora -- the former House Speaker savaged Mitt Romney, the campaign ads that have been...
View ArticleBipartisan resolution to honor Vaclav Havel introduced by Floridians in...
The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, led by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are both introducing resolutions to honor the life of former Czech president...
View ArticleFlorida lawmakers, U.S.-born students make push for in-state tuition
Flanked by students from across the state, a group of Florida lawmakers endorsed legislation to allow the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition for college, if they went...
View ArticleBarack Obama to visit Miami Feb. 23, probably highlight SOTU policy
The President is Miami-bound Feb. 23 to Miami, where he'll likely highlight an aspect of his State of the Union Speech. More details on this event and other stops in Florida will be released as they...
View ArticleMoving up primary date was right call, Cannon says
House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, one of the architects of the plan to move up Florida's presidential primary to Jan. 31, said Thursday that the way the campaign has evolved shows the wisdom...
View ArticleScott defends capitalism with "First they came" Holocaust quote
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has not endorsed a candidate in the U.S. presidential contest, but he strongly endorsed the “free market” Thursday morning, using a Holocaust-era quote to encourage business...
View ArticleMario Diaz-Balart picks congressional seat, before redistricting maps are final
U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart will be running for Florida's new Congressional District 25, as it will be redrawn under once-a-decade redistricting. Diaz-Balart, a Miami Republican, currently represents...
View ArticleSenate committee votes to tighten parimutuel loopholes and free the racing dogs
For the second year in a row, the Senate Regulated Industries Committee narrowly approved a bill to allow Florida's 16 remaining dog tracks to stop racing greyhounds and allow their facilities to...
View ArticleMitt Romney’s depressing tour of Florida stops at closed Jacksonville...
Jon Cummings spoke so quietly the crowd at Mitt Romney’s rally had to tell him to speak up. He didn’t sound like a politician. He sounded like the man who shut down a century old business in the tough...
View ArticlePro-Gingrich PAC attacks Mitt Romney over 'blood money' in web ad
The Winning Our Future SuperPac has released a new ad that hits Mitt Romney from every angle possible -- ObamaCare, Cayman Islands tax shelters and even Medicare fraud. The committee said it was...
View ArticleRivera introduces a military-only version of the DREAM Act
Inspired by the discussion about immigration during Monday night's Republican presidential debate, Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, has filed his own bill that would give young people who serve in the...
View ArticleStudents take tuition protests to Tallahassee
Some students protested tuition increases. Some lamented cuts to the Bright Futures scholarship program. And some said they were only after the extra credit. But when the 200 or so university students...
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