The House has passed a bill Florida's top planning official says would undermine the state's growth management laws. ...more

April 29, 2009

Customers of the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are going to see their premiums rise, but by how much hasn't been finalized. ...more

April 29, 2009

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has won Senate confirmation to serve as the nation's health and human services secretary. ...more

April 28, 2009

Smuggling illegal immigrants into Florida is not against state law, but the House has unanimously passed a bill to change that. ...more

April 24, 2009

The Florida Senate says it is all right that 14-year-olds can operate high-powered watercraft. ...more

April 24, 2009

WHAT'S NEXT A proposal in the state Legislature to lift the state's offshore drilling ban now goes to the House for a vote. If it's approved there, the Senate and Gov. Charlie Crist would have to approve it before it could become law. ...more

April 22, 2009

Isn't it great that the taxpayers of Sun n' Lake of Sebring are going to sue themselves (as taxpayers of Highlands County). The Sun 'n Lake board of supervisors (majority elected by NRPI) does not think that we, the people, understand how crucial the big landowners are to the success of Sun n' Lake. I recommend impeachment or recall but that can only be done, I suppose, by a vote of the landowners. Certainly the current board won't step down. They'd rather waste our taxes and assessments fighting a decision made by the same county government that originally established Sun n' Lake. And I feel the people will ultimately win but only after a long and expensive battle that only enriches the lawyers. ...more

April 19, 2009

Tampa-based Walter Industries Inc. expects to complete the spinoff of its financing business by Friday, the company said. This comes after a vote Wednesday by shareholders of Hanover Capital Mortgage Holdings to merge with Walter Investment Management LLC. A favorable ruling by the Internal Revenue Service related to the deal helped satisfy conditions for the closing. ...more

April 16, 2009

Please ask Senator Altman to schedule SB 0738 (1.35 percent property tax cap) for a vote in committee and ask him to lead the Senate in putting this ballot initiative before the voters this year. ...more

April 12, 2009

Sonjia Bacher of Holiday is not happy with the post-card-only inmate mail policy of Pasco Sheriff Bob White. ...more

April 8, 2009