Labor Day a year ago, Hurricane Hermine ravaged Tallahassee as it swept through the Big Bend part of Florida.
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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There's no part of Gov. Rick Scott's job more heavily criticized during his seven years in office than the friends and supporters he's appointed to leadership posts, generally as a lucrative prize for loyalty.
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have laid waste to large sections of two of our largest states. Our news is full of tragic stories, but also replete with heroic efforts by many, as well as an intense spirit of giving and caring. By nature, we are a good people and in our hearts we care about the welfare of our neighbors, even if as neighbors they live hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Apart from Gov. Rick Scott and some members of the Florida Cabinet, did you see any elected official who worked harder to get constituents through Hurricane Irma than state Rep. Katie Edwards?
Life is exhausting -- and daily choices are unbearably burdensome -- for some Americans who are so comfortably situated that they have the time and means to make themselves morally uncomfortable. They think constantly about what they believe are the global ripples, and hence the moral-cum-political ramifications, of their quotidian decisions. And they are making themselves nervous wrecks.
The U.S. Air Force "sniffer plane" was collecting air samples off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Sept. 3, 1949, when it gathered evidence of radioactivity, confirming that the war-shattered Soviet Union had tested a nuclear device. The Soviets' Aug. 29, 1949, test had come faster than expected.
Gov. Rick Scott has been talking to Floridians on national TV networks, by my calculation, on average every three hours since Tuesday.
If Democrats are to have any chance of flipping the U.S. House in 2018, they’re going to have to pick up seats in Florida. But, with a year until the primaries, their chances to make major gains in the Sunshine State are, at best, slim.
When political parties don't do their homework, bad things can happen. Everybody knows that. But few are as bad or clunkier or stranger than what's happened since the Broward Republican Executive Committee (BREC) put its trust in a young man named Rupert Tarsey.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz must feel pretty safe in her bubble. Because every time you turn around, there she is again, poking the WikiLeaks bear.
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By Kevin Derby
The Florida Chamber of Commerce went to bat on Thursday for legislation to expand the state’s Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit cap.
By Kevin Derby
Former Gov. Gary Johnson, R-NM, has opened the door to a second Libertarian presidential bid and, this week, offered his take on way former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., has been overtaken by Donald Trump and other candidates in the Republican field.
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U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Fla., is joining the chorus of her fellow liberal Congress members and gun safety advocates calling for an end to gun violence in the United States.
By Kevin Derby
With reports out that Iran is testing ballistic missiles, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chairwoman of the U.S. House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, called for President Barack Obama to get tough with Iran and enforced the UN'S Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
By Kevin Derby
School choice group PublicSchoolOptions.org cheered Florida Senate President Andy Gardinder, R-Orlando, and state House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, R-Merritt Island, after their remarks on education to at the AP Florida Legislative Planning Session on Wednesday.
By Kevin Derby
State House Democratic Leader Mark Pafford of West Palm Beach will take over as CEO of Florida Community Health Action Information Network (CHAIN), a group which supports President Barack Obama’s health-care law and enrolls Floridians into the program.
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Sunshine State News will be heading to Jacksonville for the Florida Energy Summit Oct. 14-16.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., praised NAS Jacksonville as that Navy post marks its 75th anniversary.
By Kevin Derby
Now running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., announced on Tuesday he opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., urged the U.S. Senate to pass the “Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act.”
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