Nancy Smith

Still the media are cutting Democratic Florida Senate candidate Patrick Murphy a break, even when scary snippets about the guy turn up in the darndest places.

Floridians just got a lesson in -- or perhaps a reminder of -- why they can't trust their deadbeat dad of a federal government.

You would never believe it today, but before agriculture was an environmentalist's dirty word, it was a friendly word, a romantic word, a word that gave us hope -- something Florida editors rallied to sell as a savior of precious green belt.

A year ago environmentalists to a man/woman were blaming Big Sugar for the lion's share of Indian River Lagoon pollution, pooh-poohing the devastating effect of human waste leaking from the land. Actually, many of them still are. But times have changed. Florida rivers and estuaries have come under greater scrutiny. Now, through more concentrated scientific study, we understand what a threat septic tanks and faulty sewage pipes are to the quality of our waterways.

Just because Donald Trump is looking for a running mate doesn't mean the best GOP vice presidential candidates are wringing their hands in the parlor like a string of Victorian ladies-in-waiting.

Siberia? Nyet. Not this time. Not really. Florida delegates and alternates to the 2016 Republican National Convention have been assigned to one of two hotels located a 25-minute bus ride away from Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena -- the Embassy Suites Hotel Cleveland -- Rockside (primary hotel) and Courtyard by Marriott Cleveland Independence.

If I were a Democratic donor, I'd want to know why CD 26 candidate Annette Taddeo -- the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's chosen one -- is allowed to bulldoze her way through cash when

The two most volatile issues in Martin County are the deterioration of its waterways and the looming, life-changing spectre of All Aboard Florida.

Hillary Clinton needs to stop misleading the American people about gun manufacturers' liability. She persists in talking about the landmark Protection in Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), but her claims are blatantly false.

Forgive me if I join the victory lap of those who applaud Friday's Florida Supreme Court decision to temporarily block a state requirement that made women wait 24 hours before having an abortion.

Las Vegas has changed, folks. I couldn't believe how much since I last visited. And I'm not talking about the glitzy hotels or the towering slot machines or the raving nightlife. I'm talking about changes you can see on the airport concourse two minutes after you deplane. I'm talking about medical marijuana. OMG.

Honoring Harriet Tubman, among many possible American women to honor, is about as good as it gets.

Homeschooling, once considered by academia the best way to make sure a child couldn't get into college, has grown in student number and in stature during the early 21st century, as more and more parents look for an alternative to enrolling their children in failing government schools.

Bernie Sanders is living proof of the old adage, "What goes around comes around." Debbie Wasserman Schultz does Sanders a bad turn, Sanders does one right back.

Cabinet members were talking softly, smiling at one another, clapping each other on the back. But anyone who couldn't sense a Baileygate hangover throbbing uncomfortably over the March 29 Cabinet meeting had his head in the sand.