Florida Government News

Q: What are ``Child Support Guidelines'' for Florida residents? How do they work? Does it matter how much people make, whether or no both parents are working? I read in your recent column, that a court has to consider the wife as working, even if she does not.

Fitch Ratings has revised the Rating Outlook on approximately $2.6 billion outstanding Florida Department of Environmental Protection Preservation 2000 and Florida Forever revenue bonds and $200 million outstanding Florida Everglades bonds to Stable from Negative.

Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, the Democratic frontrunner for governor, leads her Republican rival, Attorney General Bill McCollum, in the ever important money race.

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio is making a big prediction in his Senate race: If voters listen to ideas instead of casting their ballots based on television commercials, he will beat Gov.

The Washington Post reports: A bipartisan task force will recommend today that the United States overhaul its immigration system in response to national security concerns, saying that the country should end strict quotas on work-based immigrant visas to maintain its scientific, technological and military edge.

On June 30, Governor Charlie Crist signed Senate Bill 2080, relating to water resources, into law.

The Florida Department of Corrections has demoted a warden who headed a prison where children were shocked with stun guns during an event.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's fundraising take makes him clear frontrunner in Senate race.

Former Gov. Jeb Bush said Barack Obama would not have gotten elected if he told the American public about his secret plan.

Roughly one million customers of the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will see a 10 percent increase on their premiums on Jan.

Florida is moving ahead with its goal of landing federal stimulus money to help build a high speed rail line from Tampa to Orlando and eventually Miami.

Gov. Charlie Crist's personal bottom line barely budged in 2008, a year in which he remarried and maintained his status as the least affluent statewide officeholder in Florida.

JEB SEES THROUGH THE 'SECRET PLAN'.... Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush , not surprisingly, isn't impressed with President Obama.

TALLAHASSEE -- Citizens Property Insurance policyholders in January will see rate changes limited at 10 percent, a move that will cost consumers $141 million and bring that much more in for the state-run company.

The 4-3 decision by the South Florida Water Management District governing board was marked by extended debate over how much delegation of authority the state Legislature intended to allow when it passed a bill this spring.

Police say a man charged with killing a prostitute in central Florida and then dumping her body asked his fifth-grade son to help dispose the body.

The Florida Department of Corrections is wrapping up the first phase of a sweeping, three-year drug testing program for employees and the results indicate the agency is overwhelmingly clean.

Florida officials have finished investigations into how more than 40 children ages 5 to 17 were shocked with stun guns during demonstrations at three Florida prisons.

Even with soaring unemployment and record foreclosures, Florida ranks dead last in securing federal stimulus dollars.

Treasure salvors searching for an 18th-century wreck in the Florida Straits a few years ago made a fascinating but little noticed discovery.