Of course the Democrats are going to look down their noses at a $10,000 college education: 1) they didn't think of it first; 2) it can't have any merit if Rick Scott is promoting it; and 3) heaven forbid debt-spooked students and their families get a choice.

The U.S. Senate is set to vote this week on the Sportsmen's Act of 2012 (S 3525), a 100-page bipartisan measure that has pitted the gun industrys trade association and a major gun-rights organization against each other.

And Sunshine State News has learned that this particular opposition to the bill originated with lawyers close to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

Post-election season is a time for healing, for putting aside the rancor of a long campaign and rediscovering what unites us. It has not been that way this year.

Most children under 7 would have to ride in a booster seat or other safety seat under legislation filed Monday in the state Senate.

The proposal which federal officials have been pushing Florida to pass for several years is aimed at avoiding injuries to children who remain too small to be adequately protected by an adult seatbelt, even after they're too big for infant car seats.

Florida is one of three states that don't require older children to ride in a booster seat after age 4.

Now that election season is behind us, Floridians can begin to focus on the policy changes being presented on Capitol Hill.

No, Florida did not give President Barack Obama a re-election mandate on Nov. 6. But Miami-Dade County did -- and in stunning fashion.

Of the 4,235,270 votes cast for Obama statewide, the president won Florida by just 73,189 votes.

And some 69,000 of them -- a whopping 94 percent -- came from his increased vote margin in Miami-Dade County over 2008 numbers.