Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum should scrutinize the cozy relationship between state transportation officials and the railroad industry that is being given hundreds of millions of dollars in state funds. ...more

January 25, 2008

Florida usually doesn't end up at the top of any matrix measuring public education, but it recently scored big in a key measurement: the number of teachers who have earned a certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. ...more

December 10, 2007

Florida's most important issues got short shrift during Wednesday night's CNN/YouTube presidential debate in St. Petersburg, but with the Iowa caucuses just five weeks away, the showdown better clarified the differences between the Republican frontrunners. ...more

November 30, 2007

Florida's citrus industry was just about given up for dead in recent years. Sure, the annual crop brought in $1.4 billion to growers last year. But plagued by hurricanes, freezes, labor shortages, imports, deadly diseases and sky-high land prices that caused landowners to turn groves into subdivisions, the long-term outlook for Florida's most identifiable crop appeared bleak. ...more

November 3, 2007

Florida is more than sandy beaches, golf courses, Disney World and other attractions. The environment is as beautiful as anywhere in the country, and that includes Pasco County, with its rivers, salt marshes, lakes and thousands of acres of conservation land in public ownership. ...more

September 26, 2007

Florida school districts are coming up with creative ways to dodge the new requirement that elementary school children get 150 minutes of physical education every week. ...more

September 13, 2007