• Most Recent
• Highest Rated
• Hot Comments

Juice: National politics

• Palm Beach lawmaker files bill to limit amendments on ballot

  TALLAHASSEE -- Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, has filed legislation that would limit the number of amendments on an election ballot to three.

  The move comes two months after the controversial November election where voters stood in lines for hours in major metro areas like Miami-Dade. Election supervisors and [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Salazar celebrates Everglades Headwaters Refuge

  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar travels to Florida on Friday to celebrate the establishment of the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and five other new refuges across the country.

  
  Secretary Ken Salazar

  Salazar, long a fan of Everglades restoration, also plans to deliver the keynote address at the Everglades Coalition [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Florida Democrats take their party fight to Seminole County

  TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Democratic Party will hold its organizational meeting to elect a new party chair at the Lake Mary Marriott on Jan. 26.

  Democrats will be replacing outgoing Chair Rod Smith and appear torn between Tampa committeeman Alan Clendenin and Tallahassee fundraiser Allison Tant, in a battle that [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• ACLU says focus of work changed during Scott's first year

  TALLAHASSEE -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida said the whole focus of their office changed two years ago when Gov. Rick Scott was sworn into office.

  "The entire focus of the work of the ACLU over the past two years has changed substantially to step up and" [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Is Clendenin running away with the Florida Democratic Party chairmanship?

  TALLAHASSEE -- Leon County Democratic activist Jon Ausman last night sent out to reporters a spreadsheet tracking the announced endorsements for Alan Clendenin and Allison Tant in their race for the Florida Democratic Party chairmanship.

  It purports to show Clendenin with a commanding, 68-to-32 percent edge among the party committee [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Thursday Morning Reads: School rankings, domestic partnerships and drugs

  TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Thursday.

  Here are the top stories we're reading this morning.

  
  * Florida is back in the top 10 in the annual Quality Counts survey for PreK-12 systems, the Orlando Sentinel writes.

  * A former Broward judge will have her' [...]

  Share  |  Rate