Nancy Smith

If the Florida Legislature wants to pound another nail in the coffin of the middle class during this long recession, it can go ahead with the ill-conceived idea of eliminating tax-free Internet sho

How come 47 beat-up states can pare their budgets in bad times, but the bloated federal government can't?

Time for Republicans to take a deep breath and remember what the pot of gold at the end of the Election 2012 rainbow really is: the defeat of Barack Obama.

Student loans are more than fire traps for millions of American families. Trust me, they're the next subprime mortgage crisis.

Even with the greedy insurance industry and the robber financial institutions and the lineup of fat Fortune 500 pharmaceutical giants, Spirit Airlines still makes my list of Top 10 Suckiest Compani

The Get-Rick-Scotters are either desperate to paint the governor as a shady backroom dealmaker or they conveniently ignored central points in the judge's order on prison privatization.

Groups like Earthjustice and Sierra Club didn't like it, but last week the Environmental Protection Agency finally listened, did the right thing and approved a state alternative to the EPA's dracon

The heroes of the week, God bless them, are the stalwart judges of the 1st District Court of Appeal.

Florida newspapers, once so full of journalists of real substance and consequence, are rapidly shedding or shrinking their community voices -- their editorial boards.

Is that Charlie Crist's old pal U.S. Sugar Corp. I see over there buying land with taxpayers' money?

Land smack in the middle of the Everglades restoration footprint?

If the United States government were a family, it would be making $21,700 a year, spending $38,200 and drowning in $142,710 of credit card debt.

Despite the upbeat tone of the just-ended first Florida Energy Summit in Orlando, many of the event's 550 participants admitted they hold out little hope of the state Legislature cobbling together