Nancy Smith

Twenty years ago almost to the day, I was at the Don CeSar Hotel on St. Petersburg Beach presiding over a gubernatorial candidates forum.

Mary Ohlfs didn't ask to be the poster child for Startup Quest, but her early success in the CareerSource Florida network program has thrust her and her new company into the limelight.

Jim Greer, expected to conduct his first live radio interview since he was sentenced to 15 months in prison, mysteriously failed to show Tuesday night.

Christopher Findlater is one of those spooky millionaire Democratic donors you might never have heard of.

There's never a good time for a messy divorce, but Alan Grayson's -- in a year when Democrats are trying to convince voters it's the Republicans conducting the War on Women ...

Charlie Crist is not a racist. No one can honestly call him that. On the other hand, after Monday night, it's time to address the subject fairly.

If Amendment 2 passes in November, expect medical marijuana to dominate the business of the Florida Legislature in 2015, and probably long after that, say lawyers, lobbyists and a growing num

Who knows what lurks under the Carole Crist-n-Oumano-then-Rome name? Certainly when you find one holy-cowism, you have to wonder how many more there are.

For the first time in eight years, federal health officials will conduct an analysis of whether marijuana should be reclassified under U.S. law.

Democrats would have you believe all the rich bad guys are Republicans. Don't believe it.

Suddenly The Florida Squeeze, progressive blog site since its inception, is an enemy of the party.

Entrepreneurs Robert and Anita Breinig had a dream of turning the Flash Beach Grille, their Hobe Sound catering business-turned-restaurant, into the finest

A discovery of Colorado students as young as 12 with "substantial amounts of marijuana" in their possession has anti-drug organizations sounding alarm bells and calling it "a canary in a coal mine"

Surely Charlie Crist's new friends will forgive the former chain gangster a momentary nostalgic lapse. After all, this is a favorite anniversary for him.

A small but mighty human force in the Everglades is doing more for Florida with skilled hands and good will than all the misguided billionaires with their causes and cash poking into Florida'