Friday's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris dramatically changed the tenor of the Sunshine Summit finale in Orlando Saturday and shifted a large part of the focus of CBS' Democratic presidential debate later that night. 

Maybe, finally, this will be the year conservative standard-bearers grow a backbone and campaign for repeal of the renewable fuel standard -- that is, prefer their principles to corn-based votes.

I'm catching an earful about St. Lucie estuary pollution from some of the folks I used to know during the years I lived on the Treasure Coast. I'm pretty sure they're ready to tar and feather me.

Mea culpa. I'm now fairly sure I was wrong about Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I said in past columns she was losing her power. Nope.

Either the governor has been smoking something he shouldn't, or he's found an old pair of Charlie Crist's flip-flops. How else do we explain his bizarre desertion of maybe the corest of his core principles: free-market competition?

All that whining and wringing of hands over the Republican Party of Florida's presidential primary rule changes, and look what happened. Nothing but good.

The Florida Department of Transportation has agreed to install wildlife exclusionary fencing along what is called the deadliest stretch of road for Florida panthers -- the nine miles of Alligator Alley from the FakaUnion Canal Bridge to the Naples toll booth.

If you knew all along septic tank effluent, not fertilizer in Lake Okeechobee, was the primary estuary polluter in Martin County, go to the head of the class.

Nothing says a Supreme Court justice must abstain from participation in a case because he/she and one of the attorneys involved in the case are "good friends."

Black voters overwhelmingly support parental choice and a mix of education options that include traditional public, public charter and opportunity scholarships to attend private schools.