South Florida Blogs

(posted by Ted Hutton)

Well, when a team gets pasted 15-5, you don’t expect a whole lot to come from the clubhouse.

But when Jack McKeon is the manager, you don’t have to rely on the players.

McKeon was in rare form following Friday’s blowout loss, already putting into practice what he had [...]

“This is an insult beyond explanation,” said John Rivera, the feisty chief of the Police Benevolent Association, which is being asked to take deeper cuts than other unions. “I’ll agree to that the day he agrees to [...]

Months after Florida lawmaker Daphne Campbell promised to crack down on Medicaid fraud, state agents are now carrying out her pledge by focusing on an unexpected target: Campbell’s own health-care business.

The state attorney general’s office is tracing hundreds of thousands in payments by the state to group home companies that [...]

Broward’s property values dropped again, the fourth consecutive year of bad news for recession-weary homeowners and strapped local governments.
The final figures, released by Broward County’s property appraiser this week, showed an overall 1.6 percent drop in property values. Still, that’s worlds better than last year’s overall plunge [...]

By Michael C. Bender

Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Posted: Jul 01, 2011 07:36 PM

ST. PETERSBURG — Standing in front of many of Florida's newspaper editors for the first time Friday, Gov. Rick Scott said charging for [...]