A majority of the Florida congressional delegation wrote the leaders of the Florida Legislature on Thursday, asking them to hold statewide hearings on congressional redistricting as mandated by a state Supreme Court decision.
This week, a new Republican candidate emerged in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., in 2016 even as a potential candidate said she wasn’t going to enter the already crowded primary. Murphy is running for the U.S. Senate instead of a third term next year.
Navy veteran and nurse Carla Spalding filed her paperwork this week in Tallahassee to launch her bid.
Gov. Rick Scott announced on Friday that the state unemployment rate dropped to 5.5 percent in June, the lowest since March 2008, as 12,200 new jobs were added to the private sector. The unemployment rate had stood at 5.7 percent in May.
If state Sen. Darren Soto gets elected to replace U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson next year, expect a different tone in Central Florida's Congressional District 9.
But taking a "polite" approach doesn't mean a person isn't progressive, according to Soto, a Democrat who on Thursday joined the contest to replace Grayson, a candidate for U.S. Senate.
Education was a big priority for state lawmakers during this year’s legislative session. Legislators passed a sweeping education reform bill to limit testing time in Florida’s schools as well as require a review of the state’s new (and highly criticized) Florida Standards Assessment test. Like kids who receive their final grades at the end of each semester, senators and state reps, too, received marks on their efforts to improve education from the Foundation for Florida’s Future.
A new poll finds U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., ahead of U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., in the Democratic primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016 but many Democrats remain undecided. Rubio is running for the Republican presidential nomination and is not seeking a second term in the Senate.
The two Florida Republicans in charge of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee this week urged major reforms to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) even as new reports emerged that about 238,000 veterans died before they could receive medical care due to VA’s backlog.
There’s no clear favorite in the Republican primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in 2016, though U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla. is ahead of the other candidates, a new poll shows.
Pointing to a time crunch, a Leon County circuit judge Wednesday gave the Florida Legislature little more than two months to draw new congressional districts and to defend them in court.
Judge George S. Reynolds III issued an order that said a special legislative session to redraw districts and a subsequent trial must be finished by Sept. 25. The order came after the Florida Supreme Court last week tossed out eight congressional districts because it found that lawmakers violated a 2010 constitutional amendment aimed at preventing gerrymandering.
Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera hit YouTube Wednesday morning to announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, but he chose a massive warehouse at All-American Containers in Miami to make the formal announcement.
