- The Wall Street Journal casts the aftermath of Standard and Poor’s decision to downgrade America’s debt as a battle for credibility between the ratings agency and the Obama administration.
- Here’s the lastest in the ongoing battle over how the IRS should handle contributions to shadowy political organizations that have proliferated in the wake of Citizens United.
- Here’s the latest in the ongoing battle over whether and how to “fence in” the state’s universities.
- The Miami Herald looks at lawmakers’ efforts to scale back oversight of assisted living facilities (background here).
- An effort to deepen Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale to make way for “supertankers” from the soon-to-be widened Panama Canal has raised environmental concerns.
- Number of the day: 77 million — number of documents the federal government classified last year, according to a St. Petersburg Times editorial criticizing the Obama administration for its “zeal for secrecy.”
