Floridas Martin County Commission this week accepted settlement terms that leave our clients, Bob and Anita Breinig, no longer facing onerous fines and the imminent loss of their dream: their popular Flash Beach Grille restaurant in Hobe Sound.

WASHINGTON -- Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu's stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there will be no Palestinian state while he is Israel's prime minister.

Former U.S. Rep. Allen West optimized the ebb and flow of the tea party movement over the last five years, winning a congressional election in 2010 but losing two years later.

Rep. John Tobia says all he wants his bill to do is protect consumers like his 67-year-old dad from unscrupulous vendors and lawyers.

But CS/HB 669 -- alive and well after a 90-minute, standing-room-only hearing in the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee -- is revealing what many believe is the follow-up to PIP and sinkholes as the next Great Florida Consumer Scam.