Nancy Smith

Most Florida environmental groups  this special session made a lot of noise -- you heard them -- and spent a lot of money, but in the end, came away empty-handed and bitterly unhappy.

Here's a newly minted decision you probably didn't expect: We're getting a woman's face on the $10 bill.
 

If you're wondering why the Legislature didn't restore Florida Forever's once-upon-a-time $300 million for land purchases ...

Some environmental groups have more money than they do brains. Meet the Everglades Trust.

They don't learn.

Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e? Here's a closer  look at one: The Treasure Coast newspaper group that spent more than a year dogging lobbyist Ken Pruitt like a bloodhound at a crime scene for taking a sugar company's money ... well, how can I put this? ... climbed into bed with a sugar company. 

So Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 633, the abortion-waiting-period bill. What else is new? Another year, another opportunity for Florida to shame a woman.

Ten days to go and still no sellout for the Florida Democratic Party's lonely hearts club night out -- its annual Who-Dat Dinner, aka Leadership Blue Gala.

At Sunshine State News, we decided to celebrate the Special Session with a complete overhaul of our news site! Or so it would seem.  

... Fortunately for us, we had already started working on it months ago in anticipation of what we thought would be a prolonged timeline for legislative stories.

Still think Rick Scott doesn't know what he's doing?

In a letter sent to the state today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has said it will provide Florida with a portion of $1 billion in LIP funding for 2015-2015.

Is it just me, or is Florida becoming less attractive to women year by year?

(Men, you don't get to answer this one.)

Martin County Commission Chairwoman Sarah Heard has been fined a civil penalty of $2,400 for a Code of Ethics violation involving an omission on her property valuation for six years running.

Team Hillary picked up a big, BIG playerwhen the State Department signed on to run interference for the former secretary of state-turned-presidential candidate.

Good bills -- unfortunately, not all the bad ones -- died in the 2015 sine die chaos. There is one survivor that somehow lives to raise its own kind of hell.