We're being told Republicans are backing off their anti-Obamacare media buys. And you know what? To some degree, they are.

You won't find Nan Rich using the "L" word prematurely and neither will I.

Key West, and now all of Monroe County, is teaching the rest of Florida what it's got to do to protect coastal water: Build sewage treatment plants, make every building in every town connect.

How does an issue that registers barely a blip on the Who-Gives-a-Hoot Voter Meter manage to compel a governor to give up half an hour on his Tuesday schedule so he can be condescendingly preached to?

All Aboard Florida (AAF) is like a rigged "Let's Make a Deal" TV experience.

The Martin County Commission races, hotter than a cherry bomb in a coffee can, now move to money, and who's giving what to whom. The emphasis is on the who.

It gives me no joy to contradict or criticize The Stuart News, to which I happily gave 28 years of my life. But the newspaper's Sunday endorsement of Martin County Commission Chairwoman Sarah Heard begsa few choice words of dissent.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, stopping by CBS' "Face the Nation" the other week, summed up the state of the planet about as well as anyone could: "To put it mildly," she said, "the world is a mess."