Apr 16 Patchwork Nation: Land-Use Measure Could Create More Varied Florida By Dante Chinni The story of Florida over the past half-century has been a story of real estate. Booms and busts and disputes between developers and preservationists can be deep and lead to tensions within communities in the state. We wrote about the… Continue reading
Apr 16 SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Federal regulators charged Goldman Sachs with fraud Friday, accusing the Wall Street firm of failing to disclose conflicts of interest relating to mortgage investments it created and sold -- investments that were likely to fail. The Securities and… Continue reading
Apr 16 Who's in the Florida Tea Party? By Quinn Bowman _pap_embed_custom('news01s3e36qe64',482,304,""); If you watched any television news Thursday, you likely saw swarms of Americans -- some holding signs, some dressed as 18th century revolutionaries and others in casual wear -- protesting government spending. The Tax Day protests marked… Continue reading
Apr 16 Gwen's Take: Debating the Debate By Gwen Ifill I got a lot of mail this week, almost all of it online, and much of it angry. The reason? I tried to tell both sides of a story. The occasion was our PBS NewsHour "Spotlight Series" in Tampa, Florida. Continue reading
Apr 16 Friday: Europe's Travel Delays Worsen; Same-sex Partners Get Hospital Rights A woman at Erfurt Airport in Germany reads about the volcano that is disrupting travel across Europe. (Photo by Jens-Ulrich Koch/AFP/Getty Images.) The wide-scale disruption of air travel across much of Europe only got worse on Friday as… Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch Florida's GOP Primary Heats Up with Anger over Government Spending Judy Woodruff wraps up a week of reporting from Tampa on public views of government with a look at the rise of the political right in Florida and an unexpectedly competitive race for a U.S. Senate seat. Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch Shields and Brooks on Changing Political Landscapes in Florida, U.S. Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the week, including the competitive GOP Senate primary in Florida, whether anyone will run as a moderate this year and the outcome of the Washington nuclear summit. Continue watching
Apr 15 Space Watchers Critique President Obama's Proposal for NASA's Future President Obama traveled to Florida's "Space Coast" Thursday to sell his plan for a new direction for NASA. The president's proposal would end the return-to-the-moon Constellation program begun under President Bush, a program many critics say… Continue reading
Apr 15 Full Video: Fla. Residents, Politicians Talk Taxes and Debt at Town Hall By News Desk TAMPA, Fla. | At a town hall meeting hosted by the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff, residents of West Central Florida asked federal, state and local government officials about the recession, partisanship, government spending and more. You can now watch the full… Continue reading
Apr 15 A Reader's Guide to Tax Day Procrastinators take heed: it's tax day in the U.S. Here's hoping that you don't have a line at the post office in your future. But if you DO still need help figuring out your stimulus tax credit, are… Continue reading