The Seminole Tribe has exaggerated the economic benefits of a planned $3 billion expansion of its casino and convention sites, which will take workers and business away from existing Florida companies, a top state economist said Friday. ...more

March 21, 2009

President Barack Obama embraced merit pay for teachers Tuesday in spelling out a vision of education that will almost certainly alienate union backers. ...more

March 10, 2009

Endangered Revolutionary War and War of 1812 battle sites, including locations in Florida and throughout the South, could get federal preservation grants under a bill passed last week by the House. ...more

March 9, 2009

Randy Roberts, government relations director for Publix Super Markets Inc., died suddenly at his Lakeland home Friday morning. ...more

February 28, 2009

Randy Roberts, government relations director for Publix Supermarkets Inc., died suddenly at his Lakeland home this morning. ...more

February 27, 2009

The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) will write a woman's "right" to kill her pre-born child into law and will prohibit federal, state and local governments from enacting any type of law or regulation that would, in any way, interfere with a woman killing her pre-born baby. ...more

February 11, 2009

Florida won't get enough federal stimulus money to avoid more budget cuts, the state Senate's budget leader said Monday. ...more

February 9, 2009

The easy part is coming to an end. Ask just about anyone in Washington involved in the $800-billion-plus economic stimulus legislation churning its way through Congress, and they will tell you it is a milestone - but without question the less expensive and politically and technically less risky part of the Great National Bailout of 2009. ...more

February 9, 2009

A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to economic recovery. Over the last two weeks, what should have been a deadly serious debate about how to save an economy in desperate straits turned, instead, into hackneyed political theater, with Republicans spouting all the old cliches about wasteful government spending and the wonders of tax cuts. ...more

February 7, 2009

The $2.6 billion package of state budget cuts and funding swaps that lawmakers approved on Wednesday includes the following: ...more

January 15, 2009