Nancy Smith

Submitting a public records request for the South Florida Water Management District's entire 5,000-strong email list? Risky move, environmentalists. 

Why doesn't U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy own up? Act like a grown up. If he's under investigation, he should level with Florida voters.

Poor Annette Taddeo. She may be the CD 26 candidate the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee anointed in the primary, but she sure could use a lift right now.

How much is too much land for a state to own? 

Leading congressional Democrats aren’t on the ballot in next week’s primary but they have skin in the game as South Florida voters hit the polls. 

There are enough candidates running for the CD 18 seat to field a football team, so you'd think I could wait to single one out until after the August primaries. Normally, I would.

Walton County's new blanket ban on signs on private beach property violates a retired couple's First Amendment free-speech rights, Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Christina Martin told me Friday.

More evidence that ridding Lake Okeechobee of phosphorus has no simple answer.

South Florida Water Management District board members might have a devil of a public relations fight ahead, but that doesn't make them wrong. In fact, quite the opposite.

The similarity between Republican Rebecca Negron and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton could gag a maggot, it's that in-your-face.

Election season is Marian Johnson's time. And here we are in the thick of it. Marian is its high priestess.

Flush with cash, state Rep. Irv Slosberg was giving incumbent Sen. Jeff Clemens fits in very blue SD 31 -- until Jose Lambiet did his thing this morning.

Tuesday morning's Joe Negron Show was great political theater. It's going to win Republican Negron and his wife Rebecca a lot of votes in their home district, but it isn't going to get Treasure Coast folks the 60,000 acres of private property south of Lake Okeechobee he circled on a map.

If Patrick Murphy can't behave before he's elected, what will he get up to as a United States senator?

Until I saw the latest copy of The American Spectator, I was starting to feel like the only soul in America who couldn't swallow President Barack Obama's almost sneering dismissal of the $400-million-for-hostages scandal.