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"Super" news -- best news of Tuesday, in my opinion: NFL owners voted in spring meetings in Charlotte, N.C. to return the Super Bowl to South Florida. The 2020 biggest game of the professional football year has been awarded to the Miami Dolphins' stadium.

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., testified before the House Judiciary Committee calling on it to support the impeachment of  Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen. His opening statement follows:

This is the season of college Commencement speeches -- an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times.

Now it's all coming out. After years of allowing virtually all the blame for Indian River Lagoon degradation to go to Lake Okeechobee discharges, suddenly state authorities acknowledge that millions of gallons of waste is pumped directly from municipal sewage plants into the lagoon system.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Murphy had himself another rough week last week.  Even he admits he’s “in a really bad place.”  

You could say that it all depends on how you define "lie." Or, perhaps, that it's hell to have a public record.

It got little attention last week, but one U.S. House vote passed Thursday is some kind of major victory for veterans fighting pain. 

Because advertising is a barometer that often accurately measures America's psychological atmosphere, attention must be paid to this: From May 23 through the presidential election, Budweiser beer will bear a different name. Eager to do its bit to make America great again, the brewer will replace the name "Budweiser" with "America" on its 12-ounce bottles and cans.

After six years as St. Lucie County property appraiser, Ken Pruitt -- longtime Treasure Coast legislator and former president of the Florida Senate -- has ended his re-election campaign and will not seek the Property Appraiser's Office in 2016.

In his coquettish refusal to accept the Donald, Paul Ryan says he cannot betray the conservative "principles" of the party of Abraham Lincoln, high among which is a devotion to free trade.

Every week another job-killing, economy-stifling, Constitution-trampling regulation seems to come out from on high.

"It's a suicide mission," said the Republican Party Chairman. 

When the shoe's on the other foot, notice how badly Bernie Sanders wears it.

Democrats across Florida are probably wishing they’d never heard the name Ibrahim Al-Rashid.