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- Money is on the minds of Georgia lawmakers
ATLANTA — Lawmakers spend three days this week studying the budget that Gov. Sonny Perdue released Friday.
Sorting through a 416-page budget that details how $18 billion is to be spent takes time and research. The House and Senate appropriations committees will meet jointly to hear from the heads of the state’s largest agencies.
- Mike Weinstein named head of Clay Legislative Delegation
The Clay County Legislative Delegation elected state Rep. Mike Weinstein of Jacksonville as its new chairman and state Rep. Charles Van Zant Sr. of Keystone Heights as its new vice chairman.
They will hold those leadership positions until December 2010. The outgoing chairwoman was state Rep. Jennifer Carroll of Fleming Island; vice chairman was Weinstein.
- House panel kills Seminole pact, approves gambling changes
TALLAHASSEE — A House panel unanimously shot down a gambling deal between the state and the Seminole Tribe on Thursday, dealing a new setback to Gov. Charlie Crist’s negotiations with the tribe.
The vote by the House Select Committee on Seminole Indian Compact Review kills another version of the pact with the Seminoles, who operate seven casinos on tribal land despite the lack of an agreement with the state.
- Florida's Gov. Crist praises Jacksonville businesses
Gov. Charlie Crist stopped in Jacksonville Wednesday to pay tribute to three business success stories.
The governor started his swing through Jacksonville at Lender Processing Services (NYSE: LPS), which employs about 2,100 of its 8,400 employees nationwide in Jacksonville and has plans to add hundreds more.
National Political Coverage
- Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for education
President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $1.35 billion in his 2011 budget proposal to extend an education grant program for states, although the Education Department remains months away from announcing its first round of awards, senior administration officials said. - Gates says US not planning policing role in Haiti
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the U.S. forces in Haiti for earthquake relief can defend themselves and innocent Haitians or foreigners if lawlessness boils over. - Report: FBI illegally collected phone records
The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday. - Obama honors slain civil rights leader
President Barack Obama served plates of steaming hot lunches to the needy Monday, one of several ways the nation's first black president paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader.