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February 09, 2009
Hundreds queue for tickets to Obama event in Fla.
People in line for tickets to President Obama’s town hall meeting in southwest Florida say they were told there were none left — 25 minutes after the box office opened.
GOP whip pans Iraq, stimulus plans
Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th, on a trip to Central Asia and the Middle East, says Iraq is a “fragile success” but that an accelerated withdrawal of U.S. forces would be unwise.
February 05, 2009
White House pushes for recovery package
WASHINGTON — The White House continued its full-court press Thursday for Congress to approve a massive economic stimulus package, emphasizing the benefits it would have for states and cities throughout the nation.
February 04, 2009
Crist backing new central Fla. commuter rail bill
Gov. Charlie Crist is backing an effort to revive a proposed commuter rail line for central Florida.
February 03, 2009
Fla. House speaker quits over college job scandal
Trouble started for one of Florida’s most powerful state officials the day he took his post. Now, just over two months into his tenure, GOP Speaker Ray Sansom has stepped down.
February 02, 2009
Crist told Fla. ready for federal stimulus money
Florida has lists of “shovel ready” transportation and environmental projects that can swiftly put federal stimulus funds to work, state officials Monday told Gov. Charlie Crist.
January 29, 2009
Illinois governor thrown out of office
Illinois lawmakers have not only thrown out Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY’-uh-vich), they have barred him from ever holding public office in the state again.
Obama signs equal-pay bill
President Barack Obama signed an equal-pay bill into law Thursday before cheering labor and women leaders who fought hard for it and the woman whose history-making lawsuit gave impetus to the cause.
January 28, 2009
Ledbetter preps for D.C. trip to see namesake bill
Lilly Ledbetter says she doesn’t mind that her namesake equal pay legislation won’t help her recoup money she lost through gender discrimination years ago — trumping the U.S. Supreme Court is enough.
Boyd to run for the House, not the Senate
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd of Monticello has decided against running for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Mel Martinez.
Miss. mayor indicted on Katrina fraud charges
The mayor of a Mississippi city devastated by Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he lied to get disaster assistance to repair his damaged beachfront home.
Fla. stands to gain billions from stimulus plan
Florida stands to gain billions of dollars from the U.S. House’s stimulus plan.
January 27, 2009
Attorney general questions house speaker’s meeting
Florida’s attorney general says a meeting between the state’s house speaker and a Panhandle college appears to violate the state’s open meeting laws.
Crist vetoes $364M from Fla. deficit package
Gov. Charlie Crist used his line-item veto power to undo $364 million in spending cuts, trust fund raids and money shifts Tuesday as he signed into law a series of bills designed to avert a current-year budget deficit of at least $2.3 billion.
January 26, 2009
Grand jury to look into Fla. Speaker’s dealings
A grand jury Monday asked for an investigation into House Speaker’s Ray Sansom’s dealings with a Panhandle college.
Fla. commission OKs open government suggestions
The Commission on Open Government Reform will send a nearly 200-page report to Gov. Charlie Crist this week on how to make government and records more accessible.
January 24, 2009
Fla. House Speaker Sansom hires second attorney
Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom has hired a prominent criminal defense attorney to represent him in possible state and federal investigations.
January 22, 2009
Floridians like idea of hiking cigarette tax by $1
Miamian Robert Gonzalez says a $1 tax hike on a pack of cigarettes might just be enough to make him quit smoking after 20 years.
Task force recommends rate hike for Floridians
A task force looking to return Citizens Property Insurance Corporation to its original status as an insurance company of last resort recommended Thursday that lawmakers hike homeowner rates by as much as 20 percent.
January 21, 2009
Slideshow: 2009 Inaugural Parade
See photo highlights of the first couple and the crowd cheering them along the route.
Slideshow: Scenes from the 2009 Inaugural Ball
Photos from last night’s Presidential festivities in D.C.
The Mall draws onlookers from all over the world
WASHINGTON – They came from all over the world—from as close-in as the Washington suburbs to as far away as London. No matter where their home, though, people on the National Mall Tuesday had one goal in mind – to be part of President Barack Obama’s historic swearing-in.
Obama to Nation: Let’s Pick Ourselves Up
WASHINGTON—Somber yet optimistic, Barack Obama was sworn-in Tuesday as the nation’s first African-American president, declaring it time for Americans to “pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin the work of remaking America.”
January 20, 2009
Applications due for 4th Fla. high court opening
Applications are due for a fourth Florida Supreme Court vacancy in the past year.
Obama parades to White House after historic oath
Barack Hussein Obama grasped the reins of power as America’s first black president on Tuesday, declaring the nation must choose “hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord” to overcome the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Mobile group prepares for inaugural parade
WASHINGTON – They arrived in buses from Mobile, Ala., bundled in scarves, jeans and coats.
January 19, 2009
Marianna family takes in inauguration festivities
Jackson Countian William Long and family picked up their tickets for Tuesday’s inauguration today, and spent the balance of the day sight-seeing and getting their bearings for the historic Tuesday ceremony.
January 17, 2009
Packing a nation’s hopes, Obama rides rails to DC
Tracking Abraham Lincoln’s historic path to Washington, President-elect Barack Obama launched a four-day inaugural celebration Saturday before thousands of chilled but cheering onlookers from Philadelphia to the nation’s capital. He promised to bring the country “a new Declaration of Independence” — free from small thinking, prejudice and bigotry.
January 14, 2009
Fla. Legislature passes business loan bill
At least 34 Florida businesses will be able to obtain low-interest loans from the state to help them expand.
The President-Elect and Spider-Man
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Bret Parks figured that the latest issue of the comic The Amazing Spider-Man would draw lots of fans because it features an appearance by Barack Obama.
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