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Today?s sections?
Florida: Scott wants $1.2 billion for education, bonuses, and lower taxes on manufacturers.
Not Florida: Immigration bill could be coming fast, China hacked the New York Times, and White House not saying much about skeet shooting.
Video: Teacher evaluations flawed
Florida
Local pension bill filed; leaders support change
Local governments with underfunded?pension plans?would not be able to look to the state for a bail out, under a bill filed Wednesday that is expected to become a template for legislation in the months ahead, via Michael Peltier of the News Service of Florida: http://tinyurl.com/9w8tk9x?
Weatherford suggest change could be coming for controversial on nuclear cost recovery law
House Speaker Will Weatherford told reporters on Wednesday that he is open to revising the the 2006 law that allowed Florida Power & Light and Progress Energy of Florida to collect money for nuclear power plants before building ?Tampa Bay Times http://tinyurl.com/by2agzh
Gov. Rick Scott wants $1.2 billion more for schools, bonuses for state workers
Gov. Rick Scott will send the Legislature a $74 billion budget today that he says would boost spending in schools by $1.25 billion, but some of that money will never reach students. As Scott touted the figure on Wednesday, a closer look shows that more than one-third of the money, $480 million, would pay for a $2,500 teacher pay raise that must be approved by county school boards and negotiated in union contracts, if it survives a skeptical Legislature. Tampa Bay Times http://tinyurl.com/bacxmf5
Gov. Scott to offer $1,200 bonuses to state's civil service employees
School teachers aren?t the only ones Gov.?Rick Scott?wants to pay more. When Scott unveils his $74 billion budget on Thursday ? the highest dollar figure in state history ? it will include?bonuses?of $1,200 for each of the state?s civil service employees in non-supervisory roles. It's been six years since state workers have received a pay increase. Tampa Bay Times http://tinyurl.com/aa3kucm
Enterprise Florida to unveil first-ever Florida business brand
Enterprise Florida, the state?s lead economic development entity will unveil Florida?s first-ever business brand following its board of directors meeting today. SaintPetersBlog http://tinyurl.com/an2t65x
Lots of finger-pointing over Florida election woes
A look at Florida's troubled election this past fall prompted some finger-pointing and back-tracking Wednesday. Top party officials, two election supervisors and two legislators had a confrontational discussion about the 2012 election at the Associated Press' annual legislative planning meeting. Tampa Bay Times http://tinyurl.com/am7tgwn
House files campaign finance reform plan: $10,000 limits and no more CCEs
Florida House leaders unveiled what they believe will be behavior-changing campaign finance reform Wednesday, phasing out candidate-controlled political committees and ushering in stricter reporting deadlines, more contribution accountability and campaign contribution caps of $10,000 per election. Tampa Bay Times http://tinyurl.com/aqatlml
Republican and Democratic legislators cross swords over whether controversial elections law caused Election Day meltdown
Leaders of the state Republican and Democratic parties crossed swords Wednesday over whether a controversial elections law caused the Election Day meltdown in some Florida counties ? and whether the measure was a partisan attempt to deny President Barack Obama the state?s 29 electoral votes in his re-election campaign. SaintPetersBlog http://tinyurl.com/bjky7sl
Scott Seeks Business Sales Tax Exemptions
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You can gauge the start of spring in Tallahassee by the blooming of the azaleas and dogwoods. You can gauge the financial health of state government by the growing abundance of tax-break legislation. With state finances perking up, Gov. Rick Scott wants to continue his incremental campaign to abolish the corporateincome tax. He also wants to exempt Florida manufacturers from paying the sales tax on their equipment purchases. Lakeland Ledger http://tinyurl.com/bky2ej8
Not Florida
Immigration reform bill could pass in six months, Obama says
President Obama?said that the bipartisan group of senators working on immigration legislation was following a ?reasonable timeline? and suggested he would push to get a bill passed in the first half of the year. In a pair of interviews the day after kicking off his public campaign for immigration reform, Obama told the Spanish-language networks?Univision?and?Telemundo?that he would put the weight of his office ? and his bully pulpit ? behind the effort. Los Angeles Times http://tinyurl.com/ba4khsh
The White House?s curious silence about Obama?s claim of skeet shooting
A number of readers have raised questions about the president?s statement that he goes skeet shooting ?all the time? while at Camp David. In these suspicious times, they would like to see some evidence. But the White House has been oddly silent about the matter. Washington Post http://tinyurl.com/bktszbm
N.Y. Times: China hacked us for past four months
The New York Times says Chinese hackers repeatedly penetrated its computer networks over the past four months, stealing reporters' passwords and hunting for files on an investigation into the wealth amassed by the family of one of China's leaders. In a report released late Wednesday, the Times said security experts hired to plug the breach tracked the attacks to China, in some cases computers identified with the Chinese military. CBS News http://tinyurl.com/alnqtka
Menendez denies he was with Dominican prostitutes
Sen. Robert Menendez's office said Wednesday night that he reimbursed a prominent Florida political donor $58,500 for the full cost of two of three trips on the donor's plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010. At the same time, Menendez's office said unsubstantiated allegations that he engaged in sex with prostitutes there are false. Associated Press http://tinyurl.com/ajkxpyw
No sense of crisis in Congress as automatic cuts loom again
Big automatic cuts in federal spending are fast approaching again, alarming the defense sector but generating little activity in Congress to avoid them. The cuts, known as a "sequestration," were postponed for two months as part of the legislation that ended the standoff over the "fiscal cliff" on January 1. Reuters http://tinyurl.com/az4g4wn
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