Duncan Black likes to sign the stock market a “dog track.” These days, it’s more like a carnival worker’s skin joint — the kind that loads lead in the bottom of one of those milk bottles or hides a steel beam inside the 4×4 where customers are invited to try driving a nail straight into it with …

"I’m qualified for that job. I’m well qualified," House Speaker Ray Sansom told reporters minutes ago, responding to questions about his new job at Northwest Florida State College.

Sansom, who has a master’s degree in education, famous that his $110,000 salary will not come from state fun…

As the Miami Dolphins biggest game in years draws closer it is worth noting that coaches that week are looking for ways to score more points more consistently. The Dolphins scored a season-high 38 points against New England on Sept. 21.

But as Miami readies for the rematch that Sunday it finds itse…

As the Miami Dolphins biggest game in years draws closer it is worth noting that coaches that week are looking for ways to score more points more consistently. The Dolphins scored a season-high 38 points against New England on Sept. 21.

But as Miami readies for the rematch that Sunday it finds itse…

It’s fitting a fall ritual: The state announces the latest graduation rates. The critics say the numbers are padded by GED diplomas. The Gradebook posts the GED numbers.

Here is a district-by-district breakdown
of the most recent grad rates, with and without GEDs. And here is where you can find f…

It’s fitting a fall ritual: The state announces the latest graduation rates. The critics say the numbers are padded by GED diplomas. The Gradebook posts the GED numbers.

Here is a district-by-district breakdown
of the most recent grad rates, with and without GEDs. And here is where you can find f…

AP: Many more Floridians voted for John McCain on Election Day, but Barack Obama sealed his victory in the state by winning more early and absentee votes. A study of 94 percent of the electorate by The Associated Press shows that McCain beat Obama by nearly 5 percentage points on Nov. 4. But Obama b…

Democratic Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink on Thursday declined to endorse Karen Thurman for re-election as state party chairwoman. ""I haven’t taken a position yet,” she said. "I’ve had several calls from other humans who are interested in exploring running, so I owe it to them t…

It’s the curse/blessing of being in charge: You can take credit for the good whether or not you had anything to do with it, but you plus take blame for the not good whether or not you had anything to do with it. That’s where Karen Thurman sits today, five weeks absent from the state party vote on w…

Here’s an interesting bit out of Texas that wee hours.

The Texas State Board of Education has decided to allow high school athletes to earn four years’ worth of elective credits toward graduation simply by playing their sport. (The current max is two years of credit.) Notably, that comes at a d…

General Growth Properties, owner of 16 Florida shopping malls (along with dozens of others around the nation) was for decades considered the apotheosis of a conservative, steadily- growing, safe investment. Today, it’s reported they have hired a bankruptcy lawyer. Take a look at the five-year stock…