Archive for January, 2010
A Week of Dollars and Trains
In a week when Florida won more than $1 billion for high speed rail, Gov. Charlie Crist revealed a proposed budget that many lawmakers thought had rolled off the tracks.
Crist slowly unveiled a $69.2 billion state budget this week, again using the federal economic stimulus that he supported before he didn’t – and then did [...]
Governor’s Medicaid Boost Requires Federal Help
Health care advocates were pleased Friday to hear Gov. Charlie Crist recommend $2.7 billion in new spending to cover increased Medicaid costs, but the boost relies in part on getting additional money from Washington that some say is up in the air.
Crist and budget director Jerry McDaniel said administration officials are confident that a 27-month [...]
Crenshaw Comments on Mayport Nuclear Carrier Decision
Congressman Ander Crenshaw commended the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) ruling to homeport a nuclear aircraft carrier at Naval Station Mayport as the only right decision for America’s national security.
“While I believe the Navy was right on the money when they made the decision to homeport a nuclear aircraft carrier at Mayport last January, I am [...]
Cheap Car Holds $200,000 in Phony Cash
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. – All Tye Kuykendall wanted was a car he could buy cheap, fix up, and sell. He didn’t expect accessories like a secret compartment fully loaded with cash.
“I liked to have a fit cause I thought that was real money,” says Kuykendall.
Kuykendall, 76, spent $400 on a Buick LeSabre that he purchased [...]
NASA Workers Anxious About Obama’s Commitment to Space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – President Barack Obama’s move to abandon NASA’s moon program is ratcheting up uncertainty about the future of U.S. human spaceflight just as NASA is setting out to launch five final missions before retiring the shuttle fleet.
People are anxious about their futures at Kennedy Space Center, and the increasing uncertainty raises the [...]
Kurt Warner Announces Retirement
An old man, at least by NFL standards, became young again Friday, as Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner announced his retirement from the game at age 38.
In a news conference at the team’s Tempe, Ariz., facility, Warner, said he was walking away from the game after 12 seasons while he could still walk.
Befitting the devout [...]
Army Teens Cope Better With Deployments
Army adolescents’ views on how they are coping with their parents’ multiple deployments differ markedly from their parents’ perceptions, according to a new Army War College study.
While 56 percent of the 559 adolescents from ages 11 to 17 who participated in a survey said they deal well or very well with their parents’ deployments, only [...]
Crist Rolls Out Ambitious $69.2 Billion Spending Plan
Gov. Charlie Crist proposed a $69.2 billion state budget Friday that papers over a looming $3 billion deficit with federal stimulus money and a lot of hope that more federal aid and a state gambling deal is on the way.
The Republican governor included a relatively modest $200 million in program cuts. But Crist seemed more [...]
State Hopes For More Federal Rail Money
A day after the national attention that came from President Barack Obama’s visit to Florida to announce the state would receive $1.25 billion for high speed rail between Tampa and Orlando faded away, state transportation officials were left trying to figure out if the remainder of the $2.6 billion they requested for the project might [...]
Tea Leaves: The Meaning of Scott Brown’s Victory
Reading the Tea Leaves: Deriving Meaning from the Massachusetts Senate Race
Does Scott Brown owe his victory to a well executed campaign plan, voter dissatisfaction with Democrats or to the train wreck masquerading as a campaign of his opponent, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley?
My guess is all three.
Coakley ran a campaign so bad that one Boston [...]
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