The House of Representatives and Senate will start this week off slow so members of Congress can prepare to attend the annual Christmas Ball at the White House Monday night.

For anyone who has lived with or been around mental illness -- and who has not -- "Melancholia" is a must-see movie.

The House of Representatives panel charged with redrawing the state's political boundaries will unveil a slate of options for the state's congressional and state House districts Tuesday, setting the stage for discussions that could affect the balance of power in Florida for a decade.

All of a sudden a classic David and Goliath struggle is emerging in the Legislature, with the Florida insurance industry muscling up against the minority of physicians in the state who don't send workers' compensation patients to pharmacies but dispense repackaged drugs to injured workers at the point of care -- in their own offices.

The insurance industry claims that physicians overprice for this service. It claims that if the price of physicians' drugs were capped, it would save the state some $62 million in workers' comp rates.

The joys of Christmas do not include coping with crowds at shopping malls or wracking your brains trying to figure out what to get as a gift for someone who already seems to have everything.

If there is a Florida port that wont see growth when the Panama Canal expansion is completed, it would be the port located closest to the canal.

Already one of the busiest ports of call in the nation, Key West is strictly a cruise ship and ferry port, with berths -- Outer Mole Pier, Mallory Dock, and Pier B -- at the western end of the island city that sits at the end of the Florida Keys.

No cargo comes through the port.

State senators want to explore why universities in Florida, both private and public, fail to attract the Tim Tebows of space research when NASA has spent a half century launching rockets from the Sunshine State.

Members of the Military Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security Committee agreed Monday to invite presidents of universities and colleges in Florida to explain what is needed to get their schools more involved in the space industry.