To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Blog: House passes 3-day sales tax holiday The House unanimously has passed a shortened back-to-school sales tax holiday on most clothing and...
Hyperlinks to research, reports and additional information compiled by Florida Tax Watch during the first quarter of 2010 are listed below: How Independent Are Florida Inspectors General?, April 2010 Modernizing Process of...
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: House approves budget on party-line vote On a party-line, election-year vote, House Republicans on Thursday pushed through their blueprint for spending...
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Education shocker: Florida not a winner in federal Race to the Top education grant In a huge surprise, Florida is not a first-round winner of a massive...
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today, March 29, 2010, that Delaware and Tennessee have won the first phase of Race to the Top, for which Florida was considered to be a leading...
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Blog: Tax credit crowd converges on Tallahassee; and “why aren’t you in school?” An estimated 5,500 supporters of the...
Above: FloridaToday.com editorial cartoon; March 23, 2010 To view a complete story, click on a headline below: In Tallahassee today, focus is education The 40-member Senate will take up...
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Sarasota County school tax prevails by a decisive margin Even with high unemployment, a foreclosure crisis and a lingering recession, Sarasota voters...
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Florida Legislature seeks property tax cuts, incentives Tax-cut plans could benefit green builders, rural homeowners and others but could cost local...
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Blog: Economist: Florida auction of casinos licenses could bring up to $2 billion Legislative economist Amy Baker told the House Committee...