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After three wins in a row, Donald Trump looks like a solid favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination--and he could be looking to the Sunshine State to find a running mate. Earlier this week, Trump talked about what he would look for in an understudy on the ticket and, if he wins in November, as vice president. 

Marco Rubio connected on at least half a dozen of his punches during Thursday night's GOP presidential debate, but none was more memorable than the one blasting Trump for hiring 200 undocumented Polish workers to build the New York City skyscraper that bears his name.

The gloves came off from the first question Thursday night as Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did what they knew they had to in this, the most tense and contentious GOP presidential debate yet. Cruz and Rubio went after Trump on immigration,  religious freedom, Obamacare, releasing tax reports, foreign policy and national security.

I have spent almost 25 years studying and writing about alimony as both a law professor and The John F. Schaefer Chair in Matrimonial Law at Michigan State University College of Law.  If I have learned anything during this time, it is that alimony is complex.  Reform can have unintended consequences and so should be the product of a careful, deliberative effort to understand and improve the law rather than a one-sided push to protect alimony payors by kicking recipients off the so-called “alimony gravy train.” 

It’s funny to me that the prompt on Facebook for posting says, “What’s on your mind?”

After months of dismissing Donald Trump, many pundits are now anointing him with the Republican presidential nomination. I find this premature.

Caught between the South Carolina primary and next week’s Super Tuesday contests, the Nevada caucus holds an odd spot in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination.

As the returns came in from South Carolina Saturday night, showing Donald Trump winning a decisive victory, a note of nervous desperation crept into the commentary.

No-bid contracts almost always are ripe for charges of overspending, malfeasance and cronyism and the Department of Corrections' latest contract is a case in point.

Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity -- or lack of validity -- of the arguments these candidates are using.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The popular wisdom that opposites attract is true in both romance and politics.

Gulfstream, the same race track leading the charge in the Legislature to collect an additional $45 million in revenue to boost prize purses, is the very track leading the charge among pari-mutuel o

Voters in South Carolina and Nevada went to the polls on Saturday as the presidential nomination contests continue. 

Hillary Clinton is bringing her email scandal to Miami.  Far be it from me to question the wisdom of such a move. It's her campaign after all.

Dan Webster is looking like he will be heading northwest in the aftermath of the latest round of congressional redistricting.