State lawmakers continued the process of whittling away billions of dollars from Florida’s budget last week. WGCU’s Valerie Alker reports.

Defeated last year in Tallahassee, the so-called “Road Rage Bill” was back before a Florida Senate committee yesterday. Tom Flanigan reports…

Bills that would change adoption laws in Florida have been filed in the House and Senate. Gina Jordan reports.

The Rails-to_Trails Act allows the Federal Government to convert miles of abandoned railway into public access recreation trails. But plantiffs in a class action lawsuit in Sarasota say it isn't always the government's land to take. WGCU's John Davis reports.

Governor Jeb Bush says he felt he had to place a moratorium on executions in Florida to safeguard the state’s death penalty process.

“The state of this law, which has broad support amongst the people of Florida, it is part of our law, has been undermined by judicial rulings over time that now make the implementation of the death penalty only happen in rare occurrences and that’s disappointing because I think the will of the people is being denied in that regard.”

The governor called for a halt to executions following the botched lethal injection procedure of death row inmate Angel Diaz last week. Bush has appointed a commission to review Florida’s lethal injection procedures. It has until March to complete its review.

The President of the National Bar Association will speak to members of the Collier County Bar Association today in Naples. Linnes Finney is a partner in the Stuart Florida-based lawfirm Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney, et al. The National Bar Association is the nation’s oldest and largest bar association of color. Its network includes 40 thousand African American judges, lawyers, educators and law students. Mr. Finney spoke to WGCU’s Valerie Alker.