In Florida’s high-stakes world of government contracting, Connected Nation learned how to play the game.

The nonprofit Kentucky-based company was formed to expand the reach of broadband to underserved areas throughout the country. In 2009, the company submitted the high bid and won a $3.9 million contract to map broadband in Florida using federal stimulus funds.

In Florida’s high-stakes world of government contracting, Connected Nation learned how to play the game.

The nonprofit Kentucky-based company was formed to expand the reach of broadband to underserved areas throughout the country. In 2009, the company submitted the high bid and won a $3.9 million contract to map broadband in Florida using federal stimulus funds.

Citing a Tampa Tribune story, Rep. Connie Mack IV is demanding an investigation into the appointment of George LeMieux to a temporary U.S. Senate stint in 2009 by former Gov. Charlie Crist.

Mack and LeMieux are running against each other in the GOP U.S. Senate primary.

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U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross of Lakeland has endorsed fellow House member Connie Mack IV in Florida’s Republican U.S. Senate primary.

George LeMieux has won another straw poll in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, this one at a picnic sponsored by three East Hillsborough County Republican clubs.

Full results aren’t available yet, but according to attendees, LeMieux got 52 percent of the votes cast at the event, to 38 percent for…

The bond for the three Occupy protesters Bryan Church, Jarred Chase and Brent Betterly, who were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism as well as other felonies, has been set for $1.5 million each.

Tampa Tribune: Crist initially leaned toward former Jacksonville Mayor John Delaney, but settled on Kottkamp after an anonymous website critical of Delaney appeared on the Internet, (Jim) Greer said.

LeMieux, meanwhile, was campaigning behind the scenes for the appointment, he said.

A graph by the Economic Policy Institute shows that while the relative pay of CEOs shot up in the 1990s, it has since fallen by nearly half, a trajectory that hardly supports the class warfare rhetoric of Occupy Wall Street and the Obama Administration.  

Today marks the 100-day mark before the 2012 Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa. We've got a package to get you prepared and in the know: