The week in Tallahassee (in photos)
by Michael C. Bender | April 12th, 2009Due to a short work week at the Capitol, we’re including a few photos from across Florida this week.

Retired United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor addresses a joint session of the Florida legislature concerning civics education on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek of Miami thanks one of his former Florida A&M University professors, Sharon Wooten, as she signs a petition to put his name on the Florida ballot for the 2010 U.S. Senate race on Monday. Tallahassee Mayor John Marks looks on, at right. Meek is on a statewide tour to round up more than 112,000 voter signatures and become the first statewide candidate to make the ballot that way in Florida. (Bill Cotterell/Tallahassee Democrat via AP)

Zoya Quinn holds her infant son Justin, as she meets with reporters at their home on Thursday in Bradenton, Fla. Her husband Ken is the second mate aboard the Maersk Alabama, a 17,000-ton U.S.-flagged cargo ship hijacked Wednesday off the Horn of Africa. She said he was worried to learn that he would be traveling in waters off Africa instead of on safer routes around Asia or the Middle East. (AP Photo/J. Meric)

Jacksonville photographer Rocco Morabito, who won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for news photography for 'Kiss of Life poses in Jacksonville on Oct. 20, 1988, with the photo of J.D. Thompson giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to his fellow power company lineman Randall G. Champion who had received an electric shock after coming in contact with a hot wire atop a utility pole. Morabito died April 5. He was 88. Champion recovered. (AP Photo)

Tim McDonald turns onto Withia Bluffs Way in his kayak to head to check on his house Thursday in eastern Madison County, Fla. Initial reports so far show the rising waters have destroyed or caused major damage to nearly 200 homes and minor damage to more than 500 in Florida since the flooding (AP Photo/Tallahassee Democrat, Phil Sears)





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