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Published: Friday, December 18, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 4:23 p.m. We have often criticized Gov.

Ormond Beach rape suspect turns himself in Man sentenced for sex act with teen Jobless rate up again in Volusia, Flagler Arsonist hits Triangle Motel on U.S. 1 Proposed amendments Here is the ballot language for amendments proposed by FairDistrictsFlorida.org : Congressional districts may not be drawn to favor or disfavor an incumbent or political ...

South Florida's famous River of Grass might not be far from North Florida's campaign trails.

Florida U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson's office just sent out another letter signed by much of the state's congressional delegation to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, asking for the much-hyped$2.5 billion in high-speed rail funding the state has requested.

OCALA, Fla. - Anyone who wonders why politics cannot be as ideologically pure as conservative Tea Party advocates or liberal Moveon.org sympathizers might hope can look at last week's congressional vote on a big funding bill.

Submitted by Abel Harding on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 06:00. What if some of the largest companies in the world were snatching up federal contracts that have been designated for small businesses? According to an article by my colleague Kevin Turner , that's exactly what is happening with U.S. government contracts.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. A Florida A&M University senior, Chantell Black, will graduate from FAMU and will leave within two days to join her unit in Fort Dicks N.J., before she is deployed to Afghanistan.

Measures aimed at keeping state lawmakers from crafting politically gerrymandered districts could become enmeshed in racial politics, with legislators questioning whether Florida could comply both with the proposed state constitutional amendments and the federal Voting Rights Act.

The gist: SunRail owes much to U.S. Rep. John Mica. December 13, 2009 Transformative legislation - like the bill boosting Florida's passenger rail - rarely gets passed in Tallahassee .

Chantell Black came very close to not graduating from Florida A&M University on Friday night.

Twelve years of trying to bring a train to Central Florida ended in triumph this week, not just in Tallahassee, but in Washington, too.

Black lawmakers who have held their tongues during most of President Obama's first year in office are stepping up their demands that the nation's first black president do more for minority communities hit hardest by the recession.

Ending decades of bottlenecked ambitions for Central Florida mass transit, the Florida Legislature on Tuesday gave final approval to the SunRail train that's expected to start carrying passengers in 2012, The Orlando Sentinel reported.

The gist: After three tries, rail comes to life thanks to leaders with vision. December 9, 2009 Bravo! At last, Florida's about to become a passenger-rail leader, thanks to lawmakers' approval of visionary legislation Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson and his office had a pretty busy period in the fiscal quarter that ended September 30 - " or at least their checkbooks did.

Rep. Corrine Brown D-Fla., 3rd "The expedited deployment of additional troops will provide greatly needed support as well as buttress our nation's effort to reverse recent Taliban momentum.

Sylvia Johnson, principal of Eugene Butler Middle School, still remembers the frantic call she received from one of her students.

Sentiment is growing at the federal level that raising the gasoline tax by at least five cents a gallon and indexing it to inflation is vital to getting long-delayed projects off the ground, reported The Fort Worth Star-Telegram . But for now, the hard part is just getting an audience in Congress, the report said.

Florida voters may get a chance next year to shake up their government, but it won't have anything to do with who goes to the governor's mansion.

People on the Westside know the neighborhood as New Town, but from now on it also will be known as a success zone.