No tears as Ga. woman sees bacteria-ravaged hands – USATODAY.com

Copeland contracted the infection days after she suffered the deep cut May 1 when the zip line snapped over rocks in the Little Tallapoosa River near the University of West Georgia, where she studies psychology

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Judge: Gov. Rick Scott's order to drug test state workers is unconstitutional - Tampa Bay Times

U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro declared that Scott's executive order to conduct random drug tests of 85,000 state employees amounted to an "unreasonable" search under the Fourth Amendment

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It's time for some straight talk in St. Petersburg - Tampa Bay Times

It's time to raise property taxes. "Stop nickel-and-diming our residents on the way to balancing the budget,"

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Health Care CEO's Lavish Pay Package Shows How the 1% Get Paid - Business - The Atlantic Wire

His salary is a modest $1.66 million a  year, but he also gets annual cash bonuses of between $10 million and $13 million

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Tax loopholes for millionaires are "crazy" | Democrats.org

I'm sure they can spin this to say he didn't mean todays millionaires he meant bus driver that became millioniares because they joined a union.

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State saves but they pay!!!!

Scott kept his promise to reduce the size of the state government bureaucracy. But he did so at the expense of real people with mortgages, health care bills, college tuition payments and credit card payments

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Don't End Agricultural Subsidies. Fix Them. - NYTimes.com

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Gov's office says (incorrectly) that they didn't kick anyone out of budget signing | Florida politics blog: The Buzz | tampabay.com & St. Petersburg Times

 Scott staffers wearing suits and black earpieces. They told the deputies that the budget signing was a private event and that a group of Democrats standing or sitting in the last two rows had to leave.

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Sides battle over Florida insurance bill as it awaits Gov. Rick Scott - St. Petersburg Times

"Quite simply, the bill on Gov. Scott's desk is not designed to benefit you," Fasano wrote. "It will instead increase your rates and increase insurance company profits."

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Nonprofit run by Florida lobbyist Ron Book's daughter nets $1.5 million, but not for what they asked for - St. Petersburg Times

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League of Women Voters accuses Florida legislature of voter suppression

The new rules that apply to any third party voter registration effort requires volunteers to register with the Elections Division and to return each filled out registration card to the their local supervisor of elections office within 48 hours or face fines up to $1,000 dollars.

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Governor Rick Scott tours local TV stations with his message of jobs

Scott's remedy to Florida's stubborn unemployment, which remains higher than the national average, is a sort of trickle-down program for corporations -- lowering, then eventually eliminating, their taxes

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Florida's high-speed rail money goes to 15 states - St. Petersburg Times

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Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions - St. Petersburg Times

Traditionally, university donors have little official input into choosing the person who fills a chair they've funded. The power of university faculty and officials to choose professors without outside interference is considered a hallmark of academic freedom

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Legislature reckless and wrong -Average Floridians were, an afterthought St. Petersburg Times

Average Floridians were, at best, an afterthought

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Health Care Law Challenge Inches Toward Supreme Court - ABC News

the costs the uninsured have passed on to providers, patients and the insured population

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Worst of the 2011 Florida Legislature - St. Petersburg Times

 on the bright side, they outlawed bestiality and droopy pants in public schools.

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Florida Legislature sets the State back 30 years...The enitre session is the Public be Damned

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Florida Legislature passes rewritten election rules critics say aim to suppress voter turnout - St. Petersburg Times

The most debated parts of the bill deal with a pullback in early voting and making it harder for voters who move, many of them college students, to update their legal addresses when they vote. Early voting has been more popular among Democrats

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