Running for the Republican nomination to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate, Congressman Ron DeSantis brought out a bill to Thursday to crack down on child predators. 

Gus Bilirakis, the Florida Republican congressman who is the vice chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, scored a win this week as the House passed his bill reforming the  Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) and the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) use of opioid medicines.

The Republican Party of Florida will be holding its Spring Quarterly meeting Friday and Saturday in Tampa. 

Rick Scott gets solid marks in a new poll after another survey released this week found him upside down. 

Morning Consult released its Governor Approval Rankings and it showed the Florida governor moving up in the polls with 49 percent of Florida voters approving of him and 41 percent disapproving of him. Back in November, a Morning Consult poll had Scott upside down with 47 percent of those surveyed disapproving of him while 44 percent approved of him. 

There wasn't a tie-dyed shirt to be found this week at a gathering in Central Florida where the buzz was all about the business of pot.
 
More than 3,000 people from across the nation and seven other countries swapped information about grow lights, soil nutrients and safes --- to stash money and products --- at the marijuana industry's premiere trade show. And the choice of Florida for the event was no accident.
 

The University of Florida is the best value college in the Sunshine State, according to a new report analyzing the best colleges at the best price.

In his final months in the Senate, Marco Rubio is urging Congress to back President Barack Obama’s call for almost $2 billion to battle Zika.

Two years after Amendment 2 went down to defeat, Florida voters say they support medical marijuana as another proposed state constitutional amendment on it looms on the November ballot. 

With six months to go, Florida voters are unsure of who they want to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate, a new poll shows. 
 
Quinnipiac University released a poll on Tuesday which shows a large segment of voters--more than 20 percent--remain undecided in the Senate race. Many voters are in the dark on the major contenders in the Senate race.

“The Florida U.S. Senate race is wide open with none of the seven candidates particularly well-known to voters,” said Peter Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll. 

Barack Obama may have carried the Sunshine State twice but he’s upside down with Florida voters are still divided on even as they generally support his nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court while two Florida Republicans are also underwater.