President Barack Obama's order lifting federal limits to experimenting with embryonic stem cells opens one more door in the search for cures to Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and dozens of other disabling diseases, said Florida public university researchers today. ...more

March 9, 2009

TALLAHASSEE Gov. Charlie Crist's job approval rating has slipped among Florida voters, but more than half still like how he is running the state. ...more

August 29, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist's job approval rating has slipped among Florida voters, but more than half still like how he is running the state. ...more

August 29, 2008

A majority of people – 57 percent – think Gov. Charlie Crist is doing a good job, but that's down from 61 percent who thought the same thing less than a year ago. ...more

August 28, 2008

Two years ago, New Hampshire refused to accept heating oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the pro-Castro U.S. critic who once called President Bush "the devil." But with fuel prices rising, well, free oil is free oil. ...more

July 19, 2008

The massive Everglades purchase that Gov. Charlie Crist announced Tuesday drew cheers from Florida's environmental community, which has skewered him over the past week for reversing his position on offshore oil drilling. ...more

June 25, 2008

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday the search for alternatives to the country's dependence on foreign oil is so urgent that he's willing to throw money at it. ...more

June 24, 2008

It's very easy, in our chaotic world, to lose track. Did you know, for instance, that "ER" is still on television? That "The Phantom of the Opera" is still on Broadway? That Hugh Hefner is still dating? ...more

June 21, 2008

HOW THEY STAND ON EXPANDED OIL DRILLING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO ...more

June 20, 2008

It was almost inevitable that a combination of $4-a-gallon gas, public anxiety and politicians eager to win votes or repair legacies would produce political pandering on an epic scale. So it has, the latest instance being President Bush's decision to ask Congress to end the federal ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along much of America's continental shelf. ...more

June 20, 2008