Floridians will join soccer fans across America this evening when the U.S. women's national soccer team begins its quest for a third World Cup championship. It's U.S. vs. Australia, first game for both teams. USA is ranked No. 2 after Germany; The Matildas of Australia are No. 10.
Gov. Rick Scott continues to haggle with the federal government in court, filing a motion on Monday to compel mediation in U.S. district court.The motion is another action in the long, ongoing lawsuit between Florida and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over the state’s Low Income Pool funding.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., hasn’t exactly covered herself in glory at her post as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) since the 2012 presidential election but in Philadelphia on Monday she named the team overseeing the the 2016 Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC).
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Former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., made a big announcement on Monday -- but it wasn’t the one the political world has been waiting for.
Bush announced back in December that he was exploring running for president in 2016 and formed the Right to Rise PAC to help his efforts to follow in his father’s and brother’s path to the White House. Next Monday, at an event in Miami, Bush is expected to formally launch his presidential bid.
After winning almost 225,000 votes as the Libertarian gubernatorial candidate last year, Adrian Wyllie vowed to stay active and build the party in the Sunshine State.
Over the weekend, Libertarian Party of Florida (LPF) met in New Port Richey and chose Wyllie to be the party chairman, a post he has held before. Lynn House will be the vice chair.
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Welcome to The Dean's List -- an Ed Dean-style look at who Florida's political achievers were (and weren't) in the last seven days. What you see here is strictly my opinion, not necessarily the editor's or the rest of the staff at Sunshine State News.
THOSE WHO MADE THE LIST
Vowing to fight for a “conservative agenda” in Washington, D.C., former New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer kicked off his bid for the Republican nomination to replace U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., in Congress. With DeSantis running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, the GOP is expected to have an easy time holding onto this seat in a solidly Republican district.
Two Republican candidates on Monday jumped in the 2016 battle for the open congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla. Murphy is running for the U.S. Senate.
A second day of negotiations between House and Senate lawmakers over a spending plan for the budget year that begins July 1 seemed to highlight longstanding divisions between the two chambers even as legislators tried to come to agreement.
WASHINGTON -- I rarely do follow-up columns. I'm averaging one every 10 years. And while my last such exercise resulted in a written apology from the White House (for accusing me of making up facts over its removal of Churchill's bust), today's is not a complaint. It's merely a recognition that the huge response elicited by last week's column, "Why Doctors Quit," warrants both rebuttal and clarification.
