As she readies to retire from Congress after almost three decades, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., was able to land one last jab at the Iranian regime this week as the U.S. House passed her resolution “condemning Iran’s human rights violations, particularly its persecution of its Baha’i minority, and urging the administration to impose sanctions against the Iranian regime for its human rights abuses.” 

Nobody, no body, has a better handle on the good, the bad and ugly of Everglades politics and the South Florida Water Management District than the local Okeechobee newspaper, the Lake Okeechobee News. It's been that way ever since I can remember. The News is what community journalism is all about, and then some.

Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis and the 2019 Inaugural Committee today announced inaugural events taking place in Tallahassee on Jan. 7 and 8.

The board of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. approved a plan Wednesday that would raise residential insurance rates by an average of 8.2 percent starting in September ---- with the hikes hitting almost all customers of the state-backed insurer.