Ashley Lopez: Florida has spent nearly $5 million setting up a website intended to shed light on the state budget. But lawmakers might let the project expire.

Amy Green: El sector azucarero invierte fuerte para proteger un sistema de apoyo a los precios que les cuesta a los consumidores unos $2,000 millones al año en costos adicionales de alimentación.

Ashley Lopez: Thanks to a “mistakenly released” database of the state’s recent economic incentives package, Floridians are afforded a glimpse at one of the least transparent ways Florida tax dollars are spent.

Howard Goodman: Gov. Rick Scott’s task force, convening to review Florida’s expansive self-defense law, looks all set to fire blanks.

Howard Goodman: Meant to oppose a supposed threat to America’s judicial system, Florida’s anti-Shariah bill is one of about 20 similar ones working their ways through state legislatures.

Howard Goodman: The state Senate appears ready for battle over a GOP plan to turn over a lot more of the state’s prisons to private companies.

Ralph De La Cruz: A bill moving forward in the Florida Senate would ban employees of Florida colleges and universities, including professors, from holding state legislative office.

Ralph De La Cruz: Republican leaders suggest they may be too busy balancing the budget and dealing with redistricting to pass an immigration bill in next year’s session.

Ralph De La Cruz: The 2011 legislative session is almost over. FCIR examines the upcoming state budget cuts.

Ralph De La Cruz: In the final week of the legislative session, the House and Senate scramble to reconcile the budget.