Nancy Smith

Mexican-born Raoul Lowery Contreras' latest self-published kindle book is hardly what you would call a three-dimensional, "fair and balanced" profile of Charlie Crist.

When Barack Obama took office in 2008, a lot of people -- some of them in Florida -- thought they were going to make a killing off of high-speed rail.

Just yesterday the Charlie Crist ad bashing Rick Scott for cutting college scholarships came on TV again. What timing.

Amid the uproar of looming November elections, casino gambling policy in Florida has so gone off the boil.

Not the governor's office, not the trustees, no outside influence coerced Melissa Meeker to abruptly quit the South Florida Water Management District in May 2013, the former executive director insi

Picking on the Tampa Bay Times has always come easy to me.

NASA and other space enthusiasts probably were all over India's satellite Mangalyaan on Wednesday when it successfully orbited Mars -- making India the fourth nation to get there, but the fir

The list and analysis of The Ten Worst States for Business released this week should come as good news for Gov.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida has proposed a partnership between its Hard Rock International casinos and the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, a deal that could channel millions of dollars in pro

If Charlotte's Web is going to be ready to go Jan.

The Federal Railroad Administration's draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for All Aboard Florida (AAF), released Friday, is either "a complete whitewash" or "a vindication of a well-planned

Jeff Henderson was so right Monday when he said the Debbie Wasserman Schultz reign is mainly on the wane.

When it comes to who killed the most successful scholarship program in Florida's history, Rick Scott and Charlie Crist ought to holster their weapons and wave a white flag.

In August 2011 Gov. Rick Scott first made it plain he likes toll lanes on major highways and wants more of them. They speed up traffic, he said.

Throwing growers into a lottery to see which five of 21 eligible nurseries will control Florida's medical marijuana industry has been a bone of contention since the Department of Health first insis