The Florida House insurance committee on Friday debated changes to the Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. ...more

April 8, 2009

Fidel Castro met Tuesday with three members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the former Cuban president's first known meeting with American officials since he fell ill in July 2006. ...more

April 7, 2009

Cuban President Raul Castro meets with members of the Congressional Black Caucus. ...more

April 6, 2009

The House insurance committee on Friday debated changes to the Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. ...more

April 6, 2009

The Senate's plan to expand gambling may net the state far less than its sponsor was predicting. ...more

March 31, 2009

Jails are the wrong place to warehouse the mentally ill. Yet for years Florida has taken this approach toward those who are sick and turn to crime: Lock 'em up and don't worry about the treatment they need. ...more

March 29, 2009

With unemployment soaring, lawmakers in Tallahassee are fretting over whether to accept more than $444 million from the federal government. ...more

March 28, 2009

Most of the time, Crystal Beach just sits there west of Alt. 19, between Tarpon Springs and Palm Harbor, and doesn't make a peep. That changed this week when the Crystal Beach Community Association, perhaps only temporarily, knocked the Palm Harbor incorporation juggernaut off the rails. ...more

March 28, 2009

As painful as it may be for state workers to contemplate, lawmakers are right to consider salary cuts this year. ...more

March 26, 2009

President Barack Obama wagered significant political capital Sunday as he bucked a highly popular House measure to slap a punitive 90 percent tax on bonuses to big earners at financial institutions already deeply in hock to taxpayers. ...more

March 23, 2009