Any future court building will have to be approved by the state courts administrator, and that office will assign someone to monitor the project, under an order issued Monday by Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady in response to the controversy over the new district appeals court building in Tallahassee.

One-hundred and 60 of Gov. Charlie Crist’s not-so-closest friends gathered this week to give him a parting gift on his way out of Florida’s Governor’s Mansion.

Newly elected House Speaker Dean Cannon blasted the Florida Supreme Court in formal remarks before the House Tuesday accusing the court of overstepping its constitutional duty as an impartial arbiter of the law.

With a new poll showing the gubernatorial race neck-and-neck, Democratic candidate Alex Sink released her findings of an audit detailing the construction of the First District Court of Appeal (DCA) building on the eastern outskirts of Tallahassee -- a building that she and others have labeled the “Tallahassee Taj Mahal.”