Nancy Smith

One seldom-discussed pothole along the road to marijuana legalization in Florida is the reluctance of banks to have anything to do with businesses that deal in the plant.

The textbook bill that passed narrowly in the Senate last week is no way to answer Common Core. It's a school-budget turkey multiplied 67 times. And worse.

This should be an interesting rest-of-the-year in Florida for gambling -- the issue that's supposed to be as dead as a head on a King's Landing pike. Look again.

Gambling options might be dead in the 2014 Legislature, but by a significant majority, Florida voters want more competition for Las Vegas-style gaming than just the Seminole Tribe's casinos.<

The light-strain medical marijuana bill, said to be under fire behind the scenes, is for the moment anyway, alive and well and moving ahead as planned in the House.

By 7 clear percentage points in the new Sunshine State News-commissioned Voter Survey Service Poll -- 52-to-45 percent -- Florida voters say let's allow children of undocumented immigrants to

There are so many reasons Florida Republicans should distance themselves from Mel Sembler and find money for their 2014 candidates elsewhere.

Only a far-left publication could come up with a Mad Lib that drops in Rick Scott's name where Charlie Crist's should go -- making Scott out to be Mel Sembler's great pal.

The ethics guru of the Florida Senate is unlikely to promote a bill that would put himself out of business, but in all good conscience, he should.

Whatever the outcome of the medical marijuana bills dominating the conversation in the Florida Legislature, one thing is certain: More lawmakers are embracing cannabis as a cure than they are

In New Jersey, when there was cause to suspect a breach of ethics in the governor's office, the state Legislature was on it like a kid on a cupcake.

Though Nan Rich waited until Thursday to launch her own petition drive for a debate with Charlie Crist, an organization calling itself Progressive Choice Florida had a petit

Looking at the same March 20 letter from the United States Department of Labor as the Times/Herald editors looked at, I can't for the life of me find the accusations of incompetence against Jesse P

All of a sudden we're finding out medical marijuana might not be the only hope for the estimated 400,000 Americans with intractable epilepsy.

Rock the Moon -- an annual Tallahassee concert for Rock by the Sea charities -- this year raised at least $20,000 for the ALS Association and a number of children's charities.