Nancy Smith

With its swamps and deep woods and regions of profound isolation, Florida has always been a place where bad things can happen without anybody finding out for years.<

I always stand up for strong women in high places. Ask anybody. Hillary Clinton, Janet Reno, Paula Dockery, Marion Hammer -- in times of adversity, I've gone to bat for all of them and more.

We should thank Governor Moonbeam for reminding us how lucky we are to be Floridians and not Californians.

Want a blatant example of fuzzy math? It's right here with ringing clarity in the outlandish proposed constitutional amendment known as Florida's Land and Legacy.

UPDATED MAY 14: Brandon Michael Cannon, 26, owner of a now-shuttered Port St. Lucie senior arcade, has filed to run against state Sen.

Why, I was asked Tuesday, wasn't House Democratic Leader Perry Thurston included on Sunshine State News' "2013 session winners" list?

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on Monday put the burden of delivering Florida to President Obama's Medicaid expansion squarely on Gov.

Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, fancies herself a feminist, but nobody who saw her deliberate the confirmation of PSC Commissioner Lisa Edgar Friday would believe it.

SB 422, the Cancer Treatment Fairness Act, cannot succeed for the 324 Floridians diagnosed each day with cancer without your help, Rep. Corcoran.

Last week's five hours of debate on the House insurance plan apparently wasn't enough democracy for the Democrats.

Nowhere in the Legislature's "invitation" to bid on a gaming market study did it ask for a vendor who would decide whether gambling is good or bad for Florida.

Marco Rubio's PAC threw out a sprat to catch a mackerel, and lo and behold, look what it reeled in.

Perhaps it was a loud-and-clear answer to the horrific Pennsylvania abortion doctor story now in the news, but on Wednesday the Florida House did what it has never done in