Nancy Smith

There's always a way around an ethics law, as a couple of slippery moves in the Florida Senate have shown.

Whatever the president's political motives for choosing to spend Earth Day in the Florida Everglades, be glad he did.

Over the years Florida legislators have presented God-knows-how-many bills claiming "there ought to be a law" against some form of rudeness or another -- against "me-first" drivers, against p

If Florida lawmakers are a little skeptical of information the Everglades Foundation puts out as fact, good for them. I applaud their instincts.

Carrying the environmental Send the Water South banner, columnist Sally Swartz, who generally runs her message in The Palm Beach Post, commenced to scolding a local politician in a column this week

A Mason-Dixon poll released Thursday on attitudes toward All Aboard Florida (AAF) shows "an uncommon intensity of opposition" toward the Miami-to-Orlando high-speed rail project in the communities

Stand back and take a good look at the early days of the 2016 U.S. Senate race in Florida. Can you see it?

It's been 19 years since investigative reporters Bob Malloy and Will Bourne wrote how money and political influence contributed to the demise of water quality and the seagrass/coral reef ecos

Ah, for the freedom of a billionaire environmentalist. Is there a more hypocritical, more protected species on this planet?

For four years Charlie Crist gave me a reason to get up in the morning. I've been so down since he left my computer screen. Then, just when I thought that 6 a.m.

Democrats close to Florida party leadership are buzzing over the bold call Monday from Democratic progressives to replace senatorial candidate Patrick Murphy with Alan Grayson -- and an equally bol

We can argue over the good sense of Annette Taddeo playing up her connection to Charlie Crist. She was his choice for lieutenent governor after all.

For a Democrat so shunned by party leadership she's virtually been thrown in a trash can and shredded with the office secrets, Leslie Wimes has the darndest collection of highly placed, in-th

Buy the land, don't buy the land -- it's all pretend, all a big show and all for naught.

What rang my bell earlier this week was Rep. Jennifer Sullivan's description of HB 633, a busybody bill that would make women wait 24 hours before having an abortion.