Now it's all coming out. After years of allowing virtually all the blame for Indian River Lagoon degradation to go to Lake Okeechobee discharges, suddenly state authorities acknowledge that millions of gallons of waste is pumped directly from municipal sewage plants into the lagoon system.
It got little attention last week, but one U.S. House vote passed Thursday is some kind of major victory for veterans fighting pain.
After six years as St. Lucie County property appraiser, Ken Pruitt -- longtime Treasure Coast legislator and former president of the Florida Senate -- has ended his re-election campaign and will not seek the Property Appraiser's Office in 2016.
When the shoe's on the other foot, notice how badly Bernie Sanders wears it.
The same Democratic candidate who decried Donald Trump for condoning violence in North Carolina in March turned right around and did the same thing in Nevada when his rally devolved into chaos. He condoned it.
Don't tell Texas the Bush dynasty is over. Polished, good-looking George P. Bush is mighty popular in the Lone Star State. Mighty popular, at least among Republicans.
If we are a nation founded on the principle that government will keep its hands off religion, how can we be a nation whose government orders Catholic nuns to violate their beliefs?
It's something I've wondered ever since Health and Human Services (HHS) told the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of nuns who care for the elderly poor, that they have to act contrary to their firmly held beliefs and pay for abortion-causing drugs for their employees.
Finally, on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court had its say.
The Florida Democratic Party, for all its disdain for rich Republicans and the privileged "1 percent," is doing its best to find and run for office the wealthiest, best connected silver-spoon candidates -- even if they have to step over longtime party loyalists to do it.
When the federal government hands you a lemon, it's like doing business with a shady used car dealer. Tough luck, buster.
In case you never spotted a character flaw in George Zimmerman, this should cure you: The former Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford is trying to auction off online the gun he used to do it.
Still the media are cutting Democratic Florida Senate candidate Patrick Murphy a break, even when scary snippets about the guy turn up in the darndest places.
