Strength is in numbers -- and endorsements -- for Republican Party of Florida chairman Blaise Ingoglia, and on Wednesday, the Spring Hill Republican announced the endorsement of key Republican senators who want him to win a second term.
Former state Sen. Dwight Bullard, in and out of the running for Florida Democratic Party chair since the election ended, is very much in the race again. Bullard was sworn in as state committeeman Tuesday evening in Gadsden County, more than 300 miles from his Miami-Dade family home. He is replacing Gadsden's Sam Palmer, who wanted to step aside to make way for the social studies teacher at Coral Reef Senior High School in South Florida.
It's another kind of rivalry that sometimes plays itself out in Tallahassee. But instead of a football field, the arena is the Florida Legislature
Heading into the 2017 legislative session, Florida State University can claim educational ties to 26 members of the House and Senate, while 24 lawmakers have links with the University of Florida.
Less than a third of the 160 lawmakers can be claimed by the two universities designated as "pre-eminent" institutions by the state.
Break out those streamers and pop the champagne -- three Florida cities are among the top places to be when the ball drops on New Year’s Eve.
Members of the Florida congressional delegation from both sides of the aisle continue to stand against a UN proposal branding Israeli development over disputed territory “illegal” and some took aim at President Barack Obama’s administration for not vetoing the measure.
One of them is a political newcomer and former soldier who lost both his legs in Afghanistan.
Medical marijuana supporters and activists are looking ahead to 2017 when medical pot will be expanded in Florida, but the full legalization and implementation of the drug may still be months away.
In 2016, Donald Trump was elected to the White House. The Cubs won the World Series. And Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In other words, it was the kind of year that seemed designed to make Florida news look normal.
But even if the relative weirdness of developments in the Sunshine State was down a notch, Florida residents still had plenty to keep them occupied, amused or in some cases terrified.
The two South Florida congressional representatives at the top of the U.S. House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee came out swinging at a UN proposal calling Israeli development over disputed territory “illegal.”
Christian Ziegler says he shouldn’t be underestimated.
The 33-year-old Sarasota Republican committeeman is widely viewed as an underdog in the race to become the Republican Party of Florida’s next chairman, but Ziegler says that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Ziegler is so serious about becoming the party’s next chairman that he pulled up to Enterprise last month, rented a car and began a cross-state trek to meet with party faithful.
