Leadership, said New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in his press conference Tuesday announcing he would not reverse his decision not to run for president, is something you can't be taught or learn.

I know its fall when the Walgreens flu shot reminder arrives in my mail.

Liberal scribblers are fish out of water when they dive into GOP affairs all wet.

Amid questions about taking a free-market approach, a House panel Tuesday reopened a long-running debate about state approval of new health facilities.

House Health Care Appropriations Chairman Matt Hudson, R-Naples, said the state has taken a series of steps in recent years to scale back the so-called Certificate of Need process. He questioned whether "we could make the free market work" for facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes.

The campaign to "soften" Gov. Rick Scott's image got off to a staggering start when it was suggested that he take Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz on a trade mission to Israel.

The idea, floated by Scott Chief of Staff Steve MacNamara, was presented as one way for the conservative governor to broaden his appeal, raise his profile and lift his dismal poll numbers.

But while Scott has begun venturing into enemy territory, warming up chilly newspaper editorial boards, the Wasserman Schultz gambit went nowhere.