Nancy Smith

You didn't really think Debbie Wasserman Schultz was off the hook, did you? This is a Democratic National Committee chairwoman who has a job getting out of her own way.

Legislators, don't sign off on the Seminole Compact until you uncouple "decoupling."

Hillary Clinton is running headlong into the same anti-establishment malaise that has plagued Jeb Bush for the last seven months -- only Democrat-style. And her Florida friend, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is suffering right along with her.

Try to imagine an estimated 200,000 DNA rape kits piling up for years on end, sitting ignored and forgotten in law enforcement storage areas across this nation.

Who but Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- with a straight face -- would tell 10 million Americans that  9 p.m. on a Sunday before a holiday, during the biggest NFL playoff weekend of the year, is the perfect time for the last Democratic debate before the primaries?

Economic incentives are important to Florida. I hope you don't mind if I disagree with some of my friends -- and some who don't call me friend -- who continue to label these incentives "corporate welfare."

I had the privilege of being part of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s magic when I heard him speak in 1962, while I was in college in North Carolina. There -- in a segregated city where whites used one toilet and "coloreds" another, where the largest hospital admitted blacks only to windowless basement rooms -- the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in a single afternoon, welded into one thousands of people, black and white.

Barack Obama's final State of the Union speech Tuesday night might go down in history as his worst.

For Florida Republicans, Rome is burning. Up and down the state, GOP committee men and women, even some legislators, see what many of their leaders in Tallahassee don't -- a party on the verge of losing its grip on the power and majority it's enjoyed since 1996.

Here's a surprise -- or maybe not so much: MoveOn, one of the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots groups -- the Democratic action committee most responsible for mobilizing Barack Obama's hugely successful Internet fundraising campaign through its MoveOn.org website in 2008 -- will back Bernie Sanders in 2016, not Hillary Clinton.  

Whatever other problems conservatives have with Chris Christie, they have to like his style on teachers unions.

To some 440,000 Floridians, the most important question to be decided by the 2016 Florida Legislature is whether Florida's lucrative horse industry will be preserved or whether it will be allowed to die, a pawn in a political ploy to get more money in the hands of casino operators.

It puzzles me that the liberal media in Florida made little effort to see past their dislike of Gov. Rick Scott, spending the last five years painting virtually every Scott appointee as a liability for the taxpayers of Florida. None of Scott's lieutenants deserve the disdain less than Jesse Panuccio.

Annette Taddeo may be the darling of Democrats in Congress, but in her own Congressional District 26, she is a pariah.

To hear some folks in Riviera Beach tell it, redistricting is already a joke.