Floridians overwhelmingly favor medical marijuana. Again.
Just two years after a push for a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana fell short --- and with another push for pharmacological pot on deck for this year's elections --- a survey indicates the idea might have enough support to get added to the state Constitution when voters head to the polls in November.
Fourteen of the Legislature's 160 members earned the Florida Chamber of Commerce's Distinguished Advocate award for efforts they put in during the session just ended to champion pro-jobs, pro-business legislation.
The chamber announces its list annually as a kind of "Legislative Report Card" based on how well they did making Florida more competitive through private-sector job creation, and putting that above special-interest attempts to protect the status quo.
Today Professor Florin Curta is a professor in medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida, but his road to the sunny vistas of north central Florida came by way of communist-controlled Romania, where growing up he grappled with empty grocery stores, power outages, and an oppressive government that discouraged creativity and free enterprise.
With the Obama administration pondering allowing banks and other countries to use the American dollar in transactions with Iran, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., are leading the charge against the proposal.
Currently, the federal government has a ban in place on foreign governments and banks to use American currency in transactions with Iran. But with the White House cutting back on sanctions on Iran as part of its nuclear deal with that country, the administration is considering ending the currency restriction.
Democrats from Florida and primary rivals pounced on Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump after he opened the door to punishing women if abortion was illegal.
Speaking to Chris Matthews at a MSNBC media event on Wednesday, Trump was asked if women who have abortions should be punished if the procedure was outlawed.
“There has to be some form of punishment, yeah,” Trump said.
Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, wants Senate leaders to establish a select committee to review the recent discovery of a radioactive isotope in Biscayne Bay linked to a nuclear power plant in southeast Miami-Dade County.
Flores' request to Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, follows the March 7 release of a study by Miami-Dade County that indicated tritium --- a radioactive isotope of hydrogen --- has leaked from Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point plant's cooling canals into groundwater and toward Biscayne National Park and the Biscayne aquifer.
UPDATE: Javier Manjarres has posted bond and has been released from the Palm Beach County Jail.
Conservative political blogger Javier Manjarres made headlines this week after reports surfaced he had been arrested for attempted first degree murder and burglary with battery over the weekend.
Javier Manjarres made a name for himself in Florida politics for his conservative blog, Shark Tank, which discusses politics in the Sunshine State. But over the weekend, Manjarres himself was the top story in Florida insider gossip.
Mike Prendergast decided to opt out of a rematch with U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, Fla., choosing instead to run for a county office and leaving the Democratic congresswoman with a much clearer path to another term.
Members of the Florida delegation split over the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocking over whether public employees who aren’t union members can opt out of paying union fees.
After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court had a rare 4-4 tie in its Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association ruling. The decision leaves the Ninth Circuit Court’s ruling in favor of public unions in place, ensuring public employees who aren’t union members will have to pay fees to the unions.
Club Med, the Treasure Coast's only destination resort and a major employer in the region for more than 30 years, is looking at the fouled, brown North Fork of the St. Lucie River and weighing its precarious future in Port St. Lucie.
