Herald Tribune: A special session of the Florida Legislature – likely to be held next month for the consideration of a complex gambling compact — is no time to discuss a monumental shift in the state’s long-established limits on near-shore exploration and drilling for oil. Proponents of exploring and drilling in state waters — within 10 miles of the shore — attempted during the Legislature’s regular session last spring to ram through a bill that would have overturned Florida’s longtime ban on such …