The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released a final  report on Florida orange production for the 2014-15 season and found it below last year’s numbers. 

At 96.7 million boxes -- up 0.3  million from what the USDA thought it would be in June -- Florida’s orange numbers are down from last season when 104 million boxes were produced. The height of production came in 1997-98 when 244 million boxes were produced. 

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., might not be running for the U.S. Senate in 2016 but he is starting to assume a larger role in pushing for a balanced budget in Washington. 

Buchanan pointed to the financial crisis in Greece this week as an example of what could happen in the U.S. if government spending is not reined in. 
 
“What is happening in Greece today could very well become the fate of America if we do not take serious steps to control spending,” Buchanan said on Thursday. “It’s a wake-up call we should not ignore.”

It says something about Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign that it was big news that she submitted herself to an interview with a cable news journalist. It also says something that the journalist selected for this honor, Brianna Keilar of CNN, was recently a guest at the wedding of the director of grassroots engagement for the Clinton campaign. Makes sense to hedge your risk.