House Speaker Richard Corcoran is watching Tallahassee like a hawk -- suspicious of everything unless it's transparent, he admits. And even then, he'll put it under a microscope.

Gov. Rick Scott will have a front-row seat in what has become -- overnight, apparently -- the battle of the Everglades experts.

A federal judge in New York handed Donald Trump his first loss as president, granting an ACLU request to stay deportations of people detained on entry to the United States as a result of Trump's executive order.

This column is a vehicle for a number of items in a bits-and-pieces, strictly opinion, sometimes irreverent format. Look for "Just Sayin'" to run once a week in this spot.

Republican Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez won't join Democratic mayors in other sanctuary cities and counties. He has ordered Miami-Dade jails to "fully cooperate" with President Donald Trump's crackdown on cities that turn a blind eye to undocumented immigrants.

Where did President Donald Trump get the idea that "between 3 and 5 million 'illegals' voted for Hillary Clinton"?

Apparently the fact-finding is over. And why not? Who needs an informed Senate on a controversial $2.4 billion expression of Big Government when the Senate president has spoken?

You want a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee? Look at the $3 million study completed for the Central Everglades Plan, Ernie Barnett told senators Wednesday.

Senate President Joe Negron is dead-set on spending $2.4 billion for reservoir land south of Lake Okeechobee. But he might be ready to tweak his original plan, considering the outroar coming from his other constituents -- the so-far-less-vocal folks in the western portion of his redrawn district.

Jon Steverson, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection since December 2014, resigned his position Friday, effective Feb. 3.