Universities escape major budget cuts
By Kathleen Haughney The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Despite initial projections that the university system could take major hits in next year’s budget, university officials are relatively...
View ArticleHaridopolos finds money for an Innocence Commission
By Kathleen Haughney The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A tweak to the state budget could provide $200,000 to create a commission through the Supreme Court to investigate wrongful convictions...
View ArticleTeachers’ union fights back with poll
By Dave Weber The Florida Education Association has come out with results of a poll that it says indicates most Florida Republican voters actually are quite satisfied with the present way that teachers...
View ArticleCrist: Teacher concerns about teacher-tenure bill “weigh heavily”
By Josh Hafenbrack Tallahassee Bureau The Florida House takes up the hotly controversial teacher tenure bill, which would tie teacher pay raises to student test scores and allow districts to fire new...
View ArticleSeminole gaming money will go to GR, not schools
By Josh Hafenbrack, Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Charlie Crist’s standard pitch for the Seminole gambling deal for the past few years was this: Do it for the children. As in, the money will go...
View ArticleJanet Long formally complains about Bogdanoff’s ‘lack of integrity’
By Josh Hafenbrack, Tallahassee Bureau State Rep. Janet Long, D-Tampa, filed a formal complaint Tuesday alleging Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, Broward’s most powerful Republican, showed a “lack of integrity...
View ArticleFla. lawmakers send Crist a bill to make Orange ethics laws stick
Top Orange County leaders have had a free ride when it comes to abiding by the county’s tougher new gift and ethics rules, but that may soon be over. Florida lawmakers passed a public records exemption...
View ArticleFlorida Legislature takes hard right turn
By Josh Hafenbrack, Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE — The 2010 legislative session might go down in the history books as this: the year the state Legislature took a hard turn to the right. As Gov....
View ArticleCrist says Legislature’s budget recalls Ray Sansom
By Josh Hafenbrack Tallahassee Bureau Gov. Charlie Crist slammed the budget crafted by the state Legislature – which is controlled by his former Republican Party – as packed with last-minute deals...
View ArticleMeek-Greene debate starts nasty — and gets worse
By Anthony Man Sun-Sentinel Within minutes, the first debate among the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate turned nasty – and it went downhill from there. For the next 90 minutes and 10 questions,...
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