Newly released Census data show that Florida's Gulf Coast has grown more rapidly than any other coastal region of the country. It's a population shift that has the Obama administration on the horns of a dilemma.
The ghost of Jim Greer is coming back to haunt Bill McCollum.
Until the Republican Party chairman resigned last January amid a storm of controversy over his financial dealings, McCollum was one of Greer's most steadfast supporters. Now the GOP gubernatorial candidate, with his campaign sinking in the polls, can't seem to run away from him fast enough.
Rick Scott's surge in the Republican gubernatorial primary contest with Bill McCollum provides more evidence of raging anti-incumbent fever.
Scott, a billionaire running his first political campaign, leads Attorney General McCollum 44-31 in the latest Quinnipiac Poll -- a shocking margin, considering that few Floridians even knew there was a Rick Scott a month ago.
The race for Florida's Republican gubernatorial nomination -- in which billionaire Rick Scott has soared to an overnight, 13-point lead -- may have narrowed to one question: Which candidate would be better for the state's economy?
Scott touts his experience as president and CEO of hospital giant Columbia/HCA and signs off his omnipresent TV ads with the challenge, "Let's get to work."
An apologetic Scott Rothstein was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison today for masterminding a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of $1.2 billion.
If Gov. Charlie Crist thinks he can reap votes from Florida's agriculture industry, his vetoes of ag-related legislation make that a tough row to hoe.
South Florida Ponzi king Scott Rothstein places himself at the mercy of the court Wednesday, when he will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn.
Drawing a bright line between himself and his two likely opponents in the race for U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio on Monday attacked federal "card check" legislation.
I oppose card check and any efforts like the Employee Free Choice Act to tip labor law in favor of unions through binding federal arbitration. I am concerned by labor unions unrelenting campaign for card check, which would eliminate workers right to a secret ballot in unionization elections," Rubio, the Republican nominee, told a gathering of the Associated Builders and Contractors in Fort Lauderdale.
Some 200,000 homeowners -- including thousands in Florida -- will share in a $108 million settlement announced Monday by the Federal Trade Commission.
Countrywide Home Loans, a subsidiary of Bank of America, agreed to pay to settle FTC charges that the company collected excessive fees from mortgage holders struggling to keep their homes.
Gov. Charlie Crist says he wasn't aware of Jim Greer's financial freelancing, but he apparently received plenty of input from two of his closest political advisers about the party boss.
