All of a sudden the produce only a mother could love is "in". The ugly stuff has been tested in Walmart's supermarkets in the United Kingdom and it sells like hotcakes.

In a show of appreciation to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio for supporting emergency water control measures, South Florida Water Management District Board Chairman Dan O’Keefe sent the senator this letter on Tuesday:

President Obama uses the White House, and even the Oval Office, to deliver monologues against Donald Trump. It's inappropriate, defies protocol and ethics for a sitting president not to wait until he's away from the office where he conducts the official business of the United States -- and he knows it. But what does he care, he's out in January.

BREAKING NEWS: Longtime Democratic Congresswoman Corrine Brown and her chief of staff, Ronnie Simmons, were indicted Friday on a series of charges related to what federal prosecutors describe as a "scheme involving a fraudulent education charity," the News Service of Florida has reported.

Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, wasn't born with a Patrick Murphy-style silver spoon in his mouth, but that hasn't stopped the soon-to-be president of the Florida Senate from lovin' life with the swells like Patrick, and hightailing it out of Dodge, away from that smelly mess of goo in the local estuary. 

In Tuesday night's pitch for cash, Patrick Murphy's campaign hit the nail on the head: "Their ... attack ads against Patrick are only going to get worse," the begging email predicted.

Right on -- I can guarantee it. And I'm sure the Murphy people know better than the Republicans, Patrick isn't going to stop revealing how little there is inside that blue suit of his. He can't help himself.

The latest reveal was the Fourth of July holiday. Does anyone know Patrick Murphy's whereabouts all weekend? A usually prolific tweeter, Murphy and his staff have been radio silent.

Eric S. Giunta, chief legal correspondent for Sunshine State News during 2012 and 2013, is now senior law clerk for Chief Judge L. Clayton Roberts of the Florida First District Court of Appeal.

After the AFL-CIO failed to endorse Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida's CD 23, a group representing more than 50 South Florida labor organizations announced Saturday their support for the district's incumbent congresswoman.. 
 

Barney Bishop, former president and CEO of Associated Industries of Florida and self-descibed serial entrepreneur, will debate an unnamed "Democratic lawmaker" on a Miami TV station Sunday. The subject: gun control legislation.

"You’ve written a strong, persuasive column on why new gun control legislation isn’t needed," Michael Putney, senior political reporter at WPLG-TV, Channel 10, wrote Bishop in an email. Putney was referring to "Banning Guns Won't Solve Our Problem," Bishop's guest column published Friday in Sunshine State News.

At a lunch meeting of small business owners Wednesday in Land O’Lakes, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) presented state Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-Land O' Lakes, with a Guardian of Small Business award for his efforts to oppose Obamacare expansion in Florida.