Early in Ronald Reagan's second term, Bill Rusher, the publisher of National Review, was interviewing the president in the Oval Office for a documentary on the conservative movement.

Beginning Saturday, Floridians will have the opportunity to weigh in on a ballot measure that would substantially ease the homestead tax burden on low-income seniors, while critics warn the measure would put a greater financial strain on everyone else or result in cuts to local government services.

Amendment 11 the Florida Senior Homestead Tax Exemption Amendment would alter Article VII, Section 6 of the state Constitution so as to allow the Florida Legislature to empower county and city governments to grant a special homestead exemption to low-income senior citizens.

The Florida Ethics Commission said Wednesday it found "probable cause" to believe that Congressman David Rivera broke the state's ethics laws as a state legislator, jolting his re-election bid less than two weeks before Election Day.

This campaign season, candidates on the national, state and local levels continue to discuss the best ways to provide relief to struggling families and paths toward economic growth.

Back in May, I wrote a column laying out possible scenarios for the 2012 campaign different from the conventional wisdom that it would be a long, hard slog through a fixed list of target states like the race in 2004.

Florida Consumer Action Network opposes all this year's constitutional amendments, including 11, the Florida Senior Homestead Tax Exemption. Why? Why not give tax cuts to low-income seniors?