Nancy Smith

Despite its overwhelming beauty and natural resources, Florida's Treasure Coast might have become a bust for business and entrepreneurship decades ago.

It's impossible to overestimate the importance of the decision the Florida Supreme Court will make after it hears arguments this week on whether Gretna Racing in rural Gadsden County can offer slot

Next week a federal team will investigate "waste, fraud, abuse and a hostile work environment" at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Annette Taddeo's congressional campaign looks like somebody stirred it with a spoon.

Somebody he'll listen to needs to tell President Obama to stop slamming Donald Trump in all the wrong places.

Rick Scott's Degrees to Jobs Summit wowed state college trustees, but I have to tell you, state college trustees certainly wowed me.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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

Don't tell Texas the Bush dynasty is over. Polished, good-looking George P. Bush is mighty popular in the Lone Star State. Mighty popular, at least among Republicans.

If we are a nation founded on the principle that government will keep its hands off religion, how can we be a nation whose government orders Catholic nuns to violate their beliefs?

The Florida Democratic Party, for all its disdain for rich Republicans and the privileged "1 percent," is doing its best to find and run for office the wealthiest, best connected silver-spoon candidates -- even if they have to step over longtime party loyalists to do it.

When the federal government hands you a lemon, it's like doing business with a shady used car dealer. Tough luck, buster.