Florida Gov. Scott Wants $250M To Lure Jobs To State
Florida Governor Rick Scott is asking for $250 million in order to lure jobs to the state.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott is asking for $250 million in order to lure jobs to the state.
Florida's Supreme Court has set a December 8th hearing date to consider a measure that would legalize medical marijuana.
The chairman of the state Senate committee charged with redrawing districts for the 40-member chamber released his proposed draft of the map late Wednesday, as Republican discontent with a plan for whether and when members would have to run for re-election continued to brew.
Fractious conservatives resisted Paul Ryan's appeals to rally around him for House speaker Wednesday, suggesting fresh trouble ahead in the Republican-on-Republican struggle between pragmatists and purists. The fight has rendered Congress almost dysfunctional and shaken the party's presidential campaign.
Amid speculation over whether Vice President Joe Biden would run for president in 2016, he announced Wednesday he would not run.
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush is set to unveil his plan for managing natural resources and lands in the West during his stop in Nevada.
Donald Trump is making a South Florida campaign stop this week.
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan told GOP lawmakers late Tuesday that he will run for speaker, but only if they embrace him by week's end as their consensus candidate — an ambitious bid to impose unity on a disordered and divided House.
State senators still aren't buying Gov. Rick Scott's argument that Florida's business recruitment agency is running short of the cash needed to close corporate relocation deals.
Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb said Tuesday he is dropping out of the Democratic race for president and is considering his options about how he might "remain as a voice" in the campaign.
Despite having lost his last two statewide elections, former Governor Charlie Crist is ready to jump back into politics.
People with concealed-weapons licenses would be able to openly display handguns in Florida and would be able to carry firearms on state college and university campuses, under measures approved by separate Senate committees Tuesday.
Trying to curb the spread of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis, a House panel Tuesday backed a proposal that would create a pilot needle-exchange program in Miami-Dade County.
Without a formal vote, the Florida Senate has agreed to strip the Confederate battle flag from its official seal, removing one of the few remaining vestiges of the infamous icon in state government.
