Gov. Rick Scott wants to reward state employees with merit-based bonuses, he wrote in an e-mail to them today. "In an effort to reward and retain outstanding employees, I am also proposing merit-based bonuses for employees," he wrote. "Based on 2012 performance evaluations, employees who receiv...

Gov. Rick Scott will stress the importance of the straw poll results and an early primary in his keynote address to Presidency 5, according to an advance copy of the speech provided to the Times/Herald. "At nearly 19 million people, the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier prima...