Nancy Smith

While powerful advocates for rivers east and west of Lake Okeechobee -- the St.

Gov. Rick Scott's Cara Jennings push-back ad, "Latte Liberal Gets an Earful," has been viewed in social media by more than 2 million people. If you aren't one of the 2 million, look at it here. Released Friday, the video was sponsored by Let's Get to Work, the governor's political action committee.

It's not often Everglades Foundation Chief Executive Officer Eric Eikenberg and I agree. But Thursday in Martin County, on Marjory Stoneman Douglas' birthday and in celebration of Everglades Day, Eikenberg told a gathering this: "Despite three estuaries in crisis, we have ONE solution and that solution is the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) …."

Congressman Patrick Murphy still wants colleague and rival Alan Grayson to resign over allegations Grayson "parlayed his post in the House into personal financial gain." That's rich. Especially when you look at Murphy's dirty hands.

Cara Jennings fans, celebrating with high-fives after watching the now-famous video of Jennings' encounter with the governor at a Gainesville Starbucks, are blaming Donald Trump for her outburst.

Environmental news in Florida rarely gives us something we can cheer. Finally, happily, an exception.

If you heard west coast Florida "red tides" come from Lake Okeechobee discharges, you aren't alone. You're wrong -- but not alone. It's time to flush that misinformation down the hopper.

Sometime in June the Florida Supreme Court will rule on a lie.

Need more proof of the League of Women Voters' liberal leanings? Have a look, as I just did, at the Florida chapter's "2016 Session: Capitol Report Wrap-up."

Thousands upon thousands of dead and rotting fish float belly-up in the polluted Indian River Lagoon, devastating indictors of the state's failure to control nutrient levels in one of the most bio-diverse waterways in the country.

Even with the full weight of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee behind her, CD 26 candidate Annette Taddeo continues to hear the boo birds.

Today she got more bad news. 

Tom Lee loves reporters and they love him back. After committee meetings during the last session of the Florida Legislature, I think he would have answered reporters' questions until the sergeant-at-arms flicked the lights if his staff had let him.

Choosing 99 delegates to the Cleveland Convention July 18-21 is a fair process, but it's more involved than most people realize.

They say at least one-third of the nation's Republicans believe that Donald Trump can save America. Well, I don't know about all of America. But I do believe there's at least one American Trump could save if he emerges from Cleveland as the GOP presidential nominee -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

In a previous life, I must have been a hunting dog. It would explain this special knack I have for sniffing out hypocrisy -- and why today I have Gov. Rick Scott treed like a coon in a Florida forest.