Nancy Smith

Why would county commissioners approve changes to their comprehensive plan they knew would be challenged by a state agency, a constitutional authority and as many as four private stakeholders

Whenever folks at The Scripps Research Institute in North Palm Beach hit a rock in the road, they're more apt to get a kick in the teeth than a comforting cuddle.

War games have come home, and they're not so much games anymore.

In case you still doubt the Mouse runs the show in Orlando, check out the lobbying contract the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority awarded Wednesday to a Disney "friend" (wink, wink).

In 35 states, welfare pays more than a minimum-wage job, and in 13 states it pays more than $15 an hour. But Florida is nowhere near the top of either list.

Could Florida's liberal media have done any more to teeny-tinyize last week's vote in Colorado recalling a pair of Democrats for supporting a gun-control package? Anybody else notice?

Dean Powell, director of the watershed management program at South Florida Water Management District, offered a promising status report last week on a little-known pilot program

Remove the name and read the story of Republican Gov. John Kasich of Ohio over the last two years. You would swear you were reading about Gov. Rick Scott.

Three weeks to the day after state Sen. Joe Negron's Senate Select Committe met in Stuart to find ways to take quick action on the toxic St.

Are Miami-Dade and Broward counties buying themselves another congressman? You have to ask yourself.

All the bridges in Kingdom Come won't make a difference.

Just as I think the mercury in Martin County's crazy-mometer can't rise any higher, along comes Sean Barrett's doozie of a petition drive on Change.org.

The count-up after the 2012 Republican National Convention ended in a high-five fest for members of the Tampa Bay Host Committee, who claim the eight counties involved pulled in $214 million from

The sick, toxic waters in and out of Lake Okeechobee, the hysteria whipped up in local media, the need to find a big, bad villain-polluter -- all deja vu to freshman state Rep. Katie Edwards.