Now in her fourth term in Congress but her first as part of the majority, U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Fla., was named to the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. 

A mechanical problem Friday with a seized drug plane being used to shuttle Gov. Ron DeSantis throughout the state has revived talk of new or improved air transportation for the governor and, maybe, members of the Florida Cabinet.

With one of his chief advisers tweeting the hashtag “NoSmokeIsAJoke,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday he will “very soon” announce changes in how the state is carrying out a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

DeSantis, a Republican, said many voters believe the state has been “foot dragging” in implementing the amendment, largely bankrolled by Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan and approved by more than 71 percent of voters in 2016.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Commissioner Nicole “Nikki” Fried announced the appointment Monday of Mary Barzee Flores as deputy commissioner of consumer affairs. 

U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., who spent 35 years as a large animal veterinarian before being elected to Congress, brought back his “Transporting Livestock Across America Safely (TLAAS) Act” and he is already rounding up support for the proposal. 

Robert J. Luck, highly respected rule-of-law conservative on the 3rd District Court of Appeal and the only Jewish applicant for the job, is Gov. Ron DeSantis' second pick for the Florida Supreme Court.

At the end of last week, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., brought back a bill to help boost security at schools around the nation. 

The ethical boundary has always been blurry for political operatives in the midst of a heated campaign, but that line may have been crossed by St. Petersburg-based Blue Ticket Consulting in the Tampa City Council races going on now.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Cabinet gave long-sought pardons Friday to members of the “Groveland Four” in one of the most-notorious cases from Florida’s Jim Crow era.

There’s a new sheriff in town, both literally and figuratively.