The state Senate appears to have consensus on increasing taxes on tobacco products. ...more

March 30, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist drew chuckles Monday when he introduced Don Winstead as Florida's "stimulus czar" - the key official charged with riding herd over $13.4 billion in federal stimulus money expected by the state. ...more

March 24, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist drew chuckles Monday when he introduced Don Winstead as Florida's "stimulus czar." ...more

March 23, 2009

Crist says Journalists must continue to hold politicians and government officials accountable ...more

March 16, 2009

Florida's $8 billion Florida Prepaid College Plan is safe from legislators looking for ways to plug budget holes, Gov. Charlie Crist and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said Tuesday. ...more

March 10, 2009

When the state's development friendly lawmakers aren't trying to undo growth management laws, they're trying to gut or eliminate altogether the agency charged with enforcing them, the Department of Community Affairs. ...more

March 8, 2009

You would have thought that George H.W. Bush's infamous "No new taxes" pledge in 1988 would have been forewarning enough. It eventually did what such expedient political promises typically do: run smack into unforeseen reality down the road. Bush de-pledged. He had rolled the rhetorical dice and hoped ensuing events - fiscal and political - wouldn't require a recant. ...more

February 25, 2009

Even conservative lawmakers are talking these days about making tax changes that could expand Florida's shrinking coffers. ...more

February 15, 2009

It's no surprise that Ray Sansom stepped down as Florida speaker of the House. Under criminal and ethical investigations, Sansom had become a liability to his Republican colleagues, who wanted him out of the limelight pronto. ...more

January 31, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist is wise to be suspicious of the Legislature's plan to suspend Florida Forever funding this year. This looks to be not the temporary measure backers claim, but an effort to kill the state's highly successful land acquisition program altogether. ...more

January 27, 2009