FL-03: Resolving one question, GOP Rep. Cliff Stearns, who currently represents the old 6th, announced he'd seek re-election in the new 3rd. (There had been some question about where Stearns would go, given how many options he had.) He won't have a free...

"First of all, this is not the appropriate time to even consider a new university," Temple said. "Secondly, this (new bill) is not what the Board of Governors passed." What the rest of the board thinks is still a mystery. But some answers may come next...

I couldn’t be more proud of this fact. It concerns me that someone would want to move into this new congressional seat in North Central Florida just to keep a taxpayer-funded job and go to Washington — all on our nickel.” State Sen. Steve Oelrich, one...

Polytechnic. The measure would make the Lakeland branch campus autonomous from USF with its own president and Board of Trustees. Sen. Evelyn Lynn, an Ormond Beach Republican who chairs the Senate Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, placed the...

Stearns, who has $2.4 million in the bank, says he will move to live in the new district, which includes 70 percent of his current constituents. Clay County Clerk James Jett, a Republican, has already filed to run. State Sen. Steve Oelrich, R - Cross...

Sen. Steve Oelrich, R-Gainesville, asked angrily. "This should go through hearings, finances and the Higher Education Committee."Oelrich, chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, told The Ledger after the meeting that anything dealing with a...