Dems reunite, seek success
Florida Democrats, "bruised and battered" by years of Republican rule and some nasty infighting that kept presidential candidates away from their state convention, confidently promised Saturday to reunite after the Jan. 29 primary and deliver 27 crucial electoral votes to their national ticket.
Polluted by politics
One day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a report saying the Everglades remains sick, besieged with toxic mercury, phosphorus and other pollutants. The next, Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, opened a hearing asking why the U.S. Interior Department removed Everglades National Park from a United Nations World Heritage Site list of endangered environmental sites. Good question. As Sen. Nelson's probe showed, however, Bush administration officials have no good answers.
No alternative: The Guard must be ready for hurricanes
In 2004, over a span of six weeks, four powerful hurricanes pounded ashore in Florida. That's the kind of scenario that makes it scary to learn that the Florida National Guard has barely more than half the equipment it once had for responding to storms.
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