Unsavory enough that an incumbent congressman with a safe seat would send a letter dripping in nasty to a Senate candidate struggling for cash and polling in last place.

Doesn't anyone else think it's time the public found out who funded the coalition of groups suing the Legislature over its redistricting maps? Who paid plaintiff attorney David King?God knows, it wasn't the League of Women Voters of Florida. The Capitol Press Corps had more money in its scholarship fund during 2012 and than the League had. Check out the LWV's tax returns in the attachment below.

If you've seen the new-style, all-purpose, convertible wedding dresses, you've got a glimpse of post-election Charlie Crist.

No more billboards, no more hustling for Carole's St. Pete boutique.

I'm sorry to say this, Eric Lynn. I wish you all the best, but even a year away, it looks like Charlie's got redrawn Congressional District 13 in the bag. It's his home county, it's where he always wins. I have to assume this time Charlie gets his Washington wish.  

Women's soccer fans in Central Florida were rejoicing Wednesday, the day after the Orlando City Soccer Club announced its launch of the Orlando Pride, the National Women’s Soccer League's 10 franchise. 

A House Committee moved a proposal forward Tuesday that would create a pilot needle-exchange program in Miami-Dade County -- and, frankly, if it goes the distance in the coming session, this is a program that could benefit the whole state, not just South Florida.

America's universities: Last place you would think to look for Thought Police, right? Show me a university in this nation that isn't committed to instilling in students a hunger to question, criticize, and dissent. It's etched in their mission statements, every one. I can't find a single exception. Yet, at least 20 ivory tower scientists never got the message.

Jeffrey Neal, who used to run the massive human resources shop for the Department of Homeland Security, just completed an analysis of the Great Pay Debate, who earns more, civil servants or their private-sector counterparts.

A federal court ruled Friday that President Obama's controversial plan to keep even the tiniest streams and wetlands clean -- called Waters of the United States (WOTUS) -- is likely illegal and therefore cannot be enforced nationwide.

To my knowledge, nobody has threatened a single Florida clergyman. But never mind that. Fear is a powerful unifier. And now legislators in each chamber are plowing ahead with bills to protect the religious freedoms of lawsuit-fearing clergy in case the U.S. Constitution doesn't.

If college students are going to incur years of debt on their way to a diploma, they might as well look not only for best-value schools, but for schools with a distinct edge.