The governors of Georgia and Florida have arrived in Montgomery to meet with Alabama's governor to discuss water sharing issues that have been going on for two decades. ...more

December 15, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist is scheduled to sign Florida's rail legislation bill, which won legislative approval last week, at events Wednesday in Tampa, Tallahassee, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale. ...more

December 15, 2009

Its agenda is to save the world, yet you don't overhear people talking about the climate summit in Copenhagen. ...more

December 15, 2009

Special interests won the day in Tallahassee last week. For two years, a coalition of my Florida Senate colleagues demanded that the state Department of Transportation renegotiate a sweetheart deal with CSX Railroad for a new commuter-rail line around Orlando. ...more

December 13, 2009

An increasingly fractious challenge to the Republican Party from its own conservative base could relegate the party to indefinite minority status, some Republicans fear. ...more

December 12, 2009

Thursday's monthly meeting of the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority turned into an unprecedented and raw display of board politics and a power struggle between newcomers and its nationally regarded airport director, Louis Miller. ...more

December 11, 2009

Dogged by spending controversies, party rifts and even calls for his ouster, state Republican Party chairman Jim Greer received a welcome vote of confidence from his executive board on Thursday. ...more

December 10, 2009

State officials today restored the civil rights of a former University of Florida football team captain who had a drug conviction and also pardoned a man who was labeled as a sex offender after being targeted in an extortion scheme. ...more

December 10, 2009

Alabama's anti-gambling governor isn't going to collect those oranges he won from Florida's governor in their wager on the Southeastern Conference football championship. ...more

December 10, 2009

Thanks to introducing blackjack table games and advanced machine games beyond bingo, Florida's Indian gaming facilities increased revenue in 2008 by 19 percent to about $1.9 billion, the publisher of an annual gaming almanac reported. ...more

December 10, 2009