Florida’s Population Growing Again
After declining for the first time since the end of World War II, Florida’s population increased modestly by more than 21,000 residents between 2009 and 2010, the University of Florida said today.
After declining for the first time since the end of World War II, Florida’s population increased modestly by more than 21,000 residents between 2009 and 2010, the University of Florida said today.
Republican lawmakers have spent much of the past two years advocating a rollback of a constitutional cap on the number of students in school classrooms. But now that the proposed tweak is on the November ballot, one question remains: Who is going to campaign for a looser standard, and who will pay for it?
Gov. Charlie Crist moved Friday to clarify a mis-statement he said he made in a television interview Friday, when Crist said he would have voted for the federal health care law that was approved earlier this year by Congress.
Rick Scott squeaked pass Attorney General Bill McCollum to win the GOP nomination in the race for Florida’s governor, but if Alex Sink, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate has her way, he will be called upon to answer what he knew about the $1.7 billion his former company paid to the government to settle Medicaid and Medicare fraud charges.
Florida joined nine other states and the District of Columbia as winners in the second round of funding in the Race to the Top Initiative, a release from the U.S. Department of Education stated on Tuesday.
Public schools throughout Florida started the first day of school for the year Monday under a law that will only permit so many students in an individual classroom, just as the state’s teachers’ union is gearing up for a fight to keep it that way.
Alex Sink, Bill McCollum and Rick Scott are major candidates in the race to become Governor of Florida. None of the candidates is perfect or pristine and, in my humble opinion, African American voters may be considering casting their ballots for the lesser of three evils instead of two.
Florida’s unemployment rate hit 11.5 percent in July, ending three straight months of decline, state officials reported Friday. With the economy weakening nationally, Florida was among 14 states where unemployment inched upward last month.
Florida ranks 47th in unemployment and has a state-wide unemployment rate of 11.4 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If the Senate bill to extend benefits passes, more than 30 states would qualify for Tier V benefits.
In a letter to Gov. Charlie Crist asking for a refund of his nearly $10,000 contribution, indicted former Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer used the occasion to lambaste the current leadership of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), calling them liars, racists and extremists.
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