Unmanned Plane Patrolling Stretch of Canada-U.S. Border

A warning to Canadians smuggling batches of "B.C. bud" or other contraband into the United States: Beware the eyes in the sky.

Obama and Corporate America 

President Obama is smart to extend an olive branch to American businesses. Our economic success depends on businesses investing, growing and creating new jobs. From expanding exports to improving infrastructure, government and businesses share important goals.

The first ten bills of the 112th Senate 

The Senate held their first real legislative day of the session yesterday, which means they finally began formally proposing legislation to deal with over the next two years.

Business groups say unemployment system unfairly favors jobless

As companies in Florida face an increase in minimum payments for unemployment insurance, business groups are looking to convince lawmakers to impose stricter standards on laid-off employees seeking jobless benefits

Teacher merit pay: 'What a difference a year makes' 

Crafting a teacher merit-pay bill for Florida this spring is "not going to be like last time," a key state lawmaker promised today.

Sea turtles will have a "voice" when it comes to development  

MIAMI - A settlement announced Wednesday means endangered and threatened sea turtles will have a "voice" when it comes to development along parts of Florida's coast. 

Does College Make You Smarter? - Room for Debate 

First there was the news that students in American universities study

 a lot less than they used to. Now we hear, in a recent book titled

 "Academically Adrift," that 45 percent of the nation's undergraduates

 learn very little

SPLATNAV! UK pensioners drive into German church 

Two British pensioners landed in hospital in southern Germany 

after their car's global positioning system directed them to drive into a church

Don't copy Arizona immigration law, top Florida Republican warns

 TALLAHASSEE — As a fifth-generation rancher and citrus farmer,

 Adam Putnam has a personal stake in an immigration overhaul, 

one of the most heated issues in Washington and Florida

Proposed Republican law would override local wage protection efforts

State Rep. Tom Goodson, R-Titusville, filed a bill Tuesday that 

would “preempt regulation of wage theft to state, except as 

otherwise provided by federal law, & supersedes any municipal or county ordinance 

Florida's unemployment steady but labor force increases by 7,000 in December 

Florida's jobless rate remained unchanged at a staggering 12 percent

just shy of a modern-era record whiile the national rate fell from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent.

Billionaires take a stand for the working man 

WHO SAYS the corporate media doesn't care about the opinions 

of ordinary people? There have been lots of articles lately about 

what workers think, written by the people who study them the most--bosses.

Low-power FM Radio Stations to Increase in Number 

Advocates for low-power FM, or LPFM, as it is called, say the stations

 are a slight corrective to the consolidation of commercial radio.

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45% Of Students Don't Learn Much In College

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The research of more than 2,300 undergraduates found 45 percent of students show no significant improvement in the key measures

Conservatives Press Republican Leaders for Bigger Budget Cuts 

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders confronted pressure from conservatives on Thursday to take more aggressive steps to cut federal spending,

Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - 

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Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.

State Bankruptcy Option Is Sought, Quietly 

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Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.

Florida education cuts: As Legislature prepares deep cuts to education in Florida, they will consider allowing local school districts to raise taxes 

In coming months, lawmakers have to figure out how to plug the gaping hole left in schools' budgets when the federal stimulus money they began receiving in 2009 dries up this year.