The St. Petersberg Times says that when Florida Governor Rick Scott ordered a freeze of all pending state contracts worth more than $1 million, he halted "dozens (of projects) worth at least $500 million in the Department of Transportation alone."
"We'll make sure that the contracts that should go forward will go forward," Scott said. "My job is to watch how this money is spent and I'm going to do it." (More at TampaBay.com . . . )
