Steve Miller: Meridian Strategies, the lobbying firm that doubles as the management group for Jeb Bush’s controversial education reform nonprofits, on Monday pulled its lobbying registration following a Sunday news story questioning its role in the Bush operations.

Ashely Lopez: On Tuesday, an ethics bill aimed at addressing Tallahassee’s “revolving door”– the movement of government employees from lobbying firms to the positions they lobbied — cleared a Senate panel.

Howard Goodman: Everyone knows why deep-pocketed interests are spending money on Tallahassee insiders. Money equals influence.

Ralph De La Cruz: A report by the National Institute on Money in State Politics focuses on the influence of anonymous attack money in Florida politics.

Ralph De La Cruz: Gov. Rick Scott has been in office less than two months. Yet talk of recalling him has already begun.