The two newspapers serving Congressional District 23 and aimed specifically at African Americans have both endorsed Nova University law professor Tim Canova over incumbent Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Voters like Clinton more than Trump, but not much, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released Thursday. Nevertheless, in the battle of the unloved presidential candidates, independent pollster Quinnipiac still has Democrat Hillary Clinton topping the magical 50 percent mark among American likely voters and leading Republican Donald Trump 51 - 41 percent.
Why doesn't U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy own up? Act like a grown up. If he's under investigation, he should level with Florida voters.
Poor Annette Taddeo. She may be the CD 26 candidate the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee anointed in the primary, but she sure could use a lift right now. She's had a couple of very bad weeks.
Let's mop this mess up for her -- and for you, who must be wondering what's going on down there in Miami:
How much is too much land for a state to own?
It was an inevitable question to arise last week within a cracking James Madison Institute session on "environmentalism versus property rights" -- especially with students from each of Florida's universities listening and learning at the JMI Policy Summit.
Sen. Joe Negron's proposal to buy 60,000 acres of sugar growers' farmland to build a reservoir was the 900-pound gorilla in the room.
There are enough candidates running for the CD 18 seat to field a football team, so you'd think I could wait to single one out until after the August primaries. Normally, I would. In millionaire Democrat Randy Perkins' case, I'm making an exception: I just can't write too much on a man who frankly fails the most important citizenship tests but wants voters to send him to Washington.
Walton County's new blanket ban on signs on private beach property violates a retired couple's First Amendment free-speech rights, Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Christina Martin told me Friday. And PLF has filed a lawsuit in the in federal court on the couple's behalf.
Edward and DeLanie Goodwin, who have owned their beachfront home in the Panhandle community Santa Rosa Beach, since 1978, say their ability to protect their privacy, personal safety and property rights is at much at stake as their loss of First Amendment rights.
The United States' big government is about to get bigger.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday it has seen enough of private prisons, and will phase them out as soon as possible.
In a memo explaining the decision, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates wrote that private prisons “simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources,” “do not save substantially on costs,” and “do not maintain the same level of safety and security” as facilities operated by the Bureau of Prisons.
More evidence that ridding Lake Okeechobee of phosphorus has no simple answer.
What we've been doing for the past 30 years to control the flow and clean the water from the Kissimmee River Basin plain isn't working, according to a story in Wednesday's Okeechobee News.
South Florida Water Management District board members might have a devil of a public relations fight ahead, but that doesn't make them wrong. In fact, quite the opposite.
