Nancy Smith

It's the same lousy deal for a woman in the Florida House. Year after year the same.

With parents and sick children watching from the gallery, the House of Representatives resoundingly passed Florida's first medical marijuana bill in a 111-7 vote.

Despite emotional arguments against a bill that would authorize the Florida Department of Transportation to raise the speed limit 5 miles per hour on some roads, the House of Representatives -- in

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Martin O'Malley walks into ours.

In a pathbreaking 36-3 vote Monday, the Florida Senate passed a bill that would allow severely epileptic children to seek relief legally by ingesting nonsmokable, low-THC medical marijuana.

Charlie Crist can't stop telling his audience what they want to hear, even when it's so full of baloney he should pass out napkins first.

The House stadium bill, legislation that provides an application process for sports facilities needing state money for upgrades, sailed through the lower chamber Friday on a wave of members' bipart

A controversial bill that would create a process to allow sports franchises to apply for sales-tax rebates, with finaldecisions made by the Legislature and governor,is expected to come before the H

Never mind the Kochs. After assessing who did what bad to America lately, I nominate Tom Steyer for the top of the list.

The League of Women Voters' ringing condemnation of Florida's voucher program Tuesday hit me like a bucket of ice water.

Of course it's important for Florida to do medical marijuana right. But there comes a time when you just want the talk and the technical mumbo-jumbo and the trepidation to end.

House Bill 843, often called "the Charlotte's Web bill," faces its most critical review yet Monday morning when it goes before Rep. Dennis Baxley's Judiciary Committee.

Until last year, few Floridians outside the agriculture belt realized the state's $9 billion citrus industry -- responsible for 76,000 jobs -- was fighting for its life against a bacterial disease

All Aboard Florida, the proposed higher-speed rail service set to operate along Florida East Coast Railway, has erupted in controversy along the Treasure Coast.<

I'm not sure what is more ridiculous, the quid-pro-quoingest former governor of our time portraying our current governor as "evil," or the same former governor blustering dismissively past the lieu