The Florida Legislature is getting worried about the budget. There could be a deficit of as much as $2 billion this fiscal year. [Local10]
A Broward High School swim coach is arrested on child pornography charges. Who knew a guy who spends his free time around a bunch of teenagers in speedos would be that kind of guy? [WPTV]
Charlie Crist wants to raise tuition at all state universities by 15%. [CBS4]
Miami-Dade County's Planning Advisory Board voted 7-3 to move back the Urban Development Line
If you happen to wander by the Capitol on your daily stroll around Tallahassee today, yes, that is in fact a truck full of farm workers being beaten into unpaid slave labor right on the steps of the Florida Legislature.New Times photoHaitian farm workers in HomesteadA few months after the latest slavery bust in Immokalee -- where the despicable Navarette brothers earned 12-year prison terms for beating and caging unpaid, undocumented workers from Mexico and Guatemala -- farm workers' advoc
Juan Carlos Zapata, a state representative from the Kendall area, is gunning for Miami-Dade County Commissioner Joe Martinez's job. The legislator is going to be termed out of office in 2010, so he's laying the groundwork for a run at Martinez's seat in 2012. Already, the first Colombian-American elected to the Florida Legislature has asked the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics if he can continue lobbying county officials while he runs for commissioner. This past March 27, ethics Executive Dir
Alex Izaguirre Today Banana Republican begins a weekly series assessing candidates running for various municipal elected offices this year. Let's turn our attention to the district three city commission race in Miami where we have seven contenders vying to replace Joe Sanchez, who is running for mayor. The district includes the affluent Roads neighborhood and the predominantly blue collar Cuban stronghold of Little Havana. Here we have Luis Morse, who so far has raised about $17,300 in campa
With Kendrick Meek resigning to seek a Senate seat, Florida's 17th congressional district will have its first non-Meek representative since 1993. District 17, with a Cook pvi of D 34, is one of the most Democratic leaning districts in the entire nation, so the real race is poised to take place in the Democratic primary. State Sen. Frederica Wilson has already thrown her many, sparkling hats into the ring. Activist Marliene Bastian has officially filed, as have
screenshot of MiamiHerald.com​Perhaps if today was a different day this post would include such phrases as "gentle teasing," "a pinky finger and some spit," "ky jelly," and "latex glove and a vat of crisco," but we simply aren't in the mood. However, in case you weren't aware Ray Samson, the former Speaker of the State House, is still under investigation for allegedly funneling millions of tax payer dollars, including $6 million that actually went to building an airplane hanger
