Whatever other problems conservatives have with Chris Christie, they have to like his style on teachers unions.

To some 440,000 Floridians, the most important question to be decided by the 2016 Florida Legislature is whether Florida's lucrative horse industry will be preserved or whether it will be allowed to die, a pawn in a political ploy to get more money in the hands of casino operators.

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump made Ted Cruz's citizenship a household conversation, but it's Democratic Florida Rep. Alan Grayson who will challenge the Texas senator's eligibility to run for president.

If Cruz wins the Republican nomination, that is.

It puzzles me that the liberal media in Florida made little effort to see past their dislike of Gov. Rick Scott, spending the last five years painting virtually every Scott appointee as a liability for the taxpayers of Florida. None of Scott's lieutenants deserve the disdain less than Jesse Panuccio.

Annette Taddeo may be the darling of Democrats in Congress, but in her own Congressional District 26, she is a pariah.

Richard Swarttz, longtime chief financial offer for the Republican Party of Florida, was "let go" Monday morning, victim of the party's cost-cutting measures.

To hear some folks in Riviera Beach tell it, redistricting is already a joke.

Marco Rubio is unfolding like a flower before American voters. It's a long, slow unfolding; little by little, easy does it. But political insiders now say, if he plays his cards right, Rubio could be the last GOP presidential candidate standing.

Democratic political commentators from James Carville to George Stephanopoulos say Rubio, who at age 44 appeals to the younger generation, understands the struggles of the middle class like no other in the race and speaks directly to first generation Americans, is the only candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton in November.

It was an off-election year, one you might have thought would be a sleeper for the political class in Florida. But 2015 turned out to be a noisy family food fight from beginning nearly to end, a year dominated by the courts and leaving a shortage of happy people in and around the Capitol. Here is our list of stories that topped the news in the Sunshine State this year.

Some time ago I had an epiphany about climate change. I came to realize it's not so much that conservatives don't buy into it, it's that they don't trust a word out of the mouth of the Obama Administration's lawless, monster of an Environmental Protection Agency.