Gov. Rick Scott continued to reshape his team on Tuesday, naming Kevin Reilly as legislative affairs director while William Spicola takes over as general counsel. Reilly and Spicola start their new duties on Wednesday.
Two South Florida Republicans teamed up this week to showcase a resolution urging school districts, colleges and universities and various youth athletic associations to “regularly update their pre-participation physical examination policies, in accordance with evidence-based best practices, and with respect for special parental considerations.”
Is vandalizing public property an acceptable way to support your candidate? Apparently, at least one Bernie Sanders' fan did.
The "we Love Bernie" artwork hasn't gone over well with folks who know this famous strip of Florida beach at the north end of Longboat Key.
Like any students in Florida’s education system, Florida lawmakers received their own set of grades for their commitment to education issues during the 2016 legislative session.
On Monday, the Jeb Bush-backed Foundation for Florida’s Future unveiled its annual Education Report Card, which grades both House and Senate members on an A-F scale for their commitment to improving education and expanding opportunities for students in the Sunshine State.
Twenty lawmakers made the cut for this year's report including a variety of legislators from the house and senate.
More money will be floated yearly to the state's 15 seaports under a wide-ranging transportation bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Rick Scott.
The measure (HB 7027) boosts the minimum annual funding for the Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development program --- administered by the Florida Ports Council --- from $15 million to $25 million.
Republican candidates will be converging on the Space Coast on Sunday to face the voters in a forum hosted by the Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida (RLCCEF) with Sunshine State News playing a major role.
RLCCEF Chairman Bob White announced over the weekend that two Republican U.S. Senate hopefuls--U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and businessman and Army veteran Todd Wilcox--will attend the forum in Viera. There will also be a straw poll for the Republican nomination to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and for state legislative races.
Allied Progress continued its efforts to take on U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's, D-Fla., position on payday lenders this week, targeting her with billboards.
Two Florida Republicans are teaming up to urge the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee to move quickly on their bill giving the U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) secretary more power to remove incompetent employees.
After almost a decade in Congress, Gus Bilirakis could soon be taking a larger role.
With fellow Florida Republican Jeff Miller heading to the sidelines, Bilirakis has a chance to take over the House Veterans Affairs Committee. Bilirakis is currently the vice chair and has a good shot at replacing Miller though having a Floridian at the helm of the committee for that long might not play well with other states’ delegations.
This time last year, the Florida Department of Education was scrambling. Their new standardized test, the Florida Standards Assessment, had crashed. Some students trying to take the assessment were unable to complete the test, while others couldn’t log in to the system at all.
