Almost half of the Florida congressional delegation is backing U.S. Rep. Darren Soto’s, D-Fla., proposal to help the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other government agencies at the state and local levels.
Starting his third month in Congress, freshman U.S. Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., has already established a good relationship with the chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee as the Florida Republican is starting to make his mark on Capitol Hill.
If the 2018 U.S. Senate election were held today, incumbent Bill Nelson would win a hypothetical matchup against Gov. Rick Scott, a new poll shows.
State lawmakers are loading up another series of gun bills to shoot through the Florida Legislature for the 2017 legislative session, setting the showdown for another round of intense debate over gun control in the Sunshine State.
Florida lawmakers will have a lot on their plates during this year’s legislative session, but education issues will be some of the hottest topics hitting the chambers’ floor over the next 60 days.
Just as Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is ramping up his campaign for governor, here comes the bad news about his mayoral record. It was bound to happen -- Levine is a strong personality looking to swell his public profile and on the whole city residents are decidedly unhappy.
A strange legislative off-season came to a close this week, as Gov. Rick Scott continued turning up the heat on fellow Republicans while the political jockeying to succeed him started fitfully moving out of the abstract.
Gov. Rick Scott announced his picks for the Florida Constitution Revision Commission Friday morning, rounding out the 37 member group which reviews the state constitution.
Businessman Chris King filed his paperwork with Florida’s Secretary of State on Thursday to run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2018.
The ongoing flame war between Gov. Rick Scott and House Speaker Richard Corcoran isn't the first time a governor and legislative leaders of the same party have engaged in nasty name-calling.
More than three decades ago, some high-ranking Democrats pilloried then-Gov. Bob Graham as "the wimp" --- or, even worse, "Gov. Jell-O" --- as a result of heated skirmishes over state spending. The intraparty kerfuffle occurred when Democrats controlled the Legislature and the governor's mansion.
