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So Long Progress Energy Florida

Submitted by Anonymous on March 26, 2013 - 3:05pm

Progress Energy customers in Florida will begin seeing a new name and logo on their bills and service trucks starting in April.

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First Female Secret Service Director has Miami Roots, as Obama Set to Make Pick

Submitted by Anonymous on March 26, 2013 - 2:47pm

President Barack Obama is set to appointJulia Piersonas the first female to lead the U.S. Secret Service, the Washington Post reports.

The former Secret Service director,Mark Sullivan, resigned after the agency suffered a prostitution scandal involving more than 10 of its agents during a trip by Obama to Colombia.

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Ex-Firefighter Rep. Ed Hooper Wants to Require Smoke Alarm Upgrade

Dave Heller

March 26, 2013 - 7:00pm

The low-battery warning from your smoke alarm always seems to happen when youre trying to sleep or at some other unwelcome moment.

Too many people pull out the batteries when that happens, according to retired firefighter Rep. Ed Hooper, R-Clearwater.

Hooper, on the Insurance and Banking Subcommittee, is pushing CS/HB 47, legislation that would require long-life lithium batteries in new and replacement smoke alarms in Florida.

Hooper says these new-generation units last at least 10 years.

'Parent-Trigger' Proponents Ward Off Union-Driven Misinformation

Eric Giunta

March 25, 2013 - 7:00pm

Environmentalists Ask Federal Judge to Continue to Lord Over State’s Business

Submitted by Nancy Smith on March 26, 2013 - 11:07am

According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, environmentalists -- who had said they agreed with the states new Everglades cleanup plan that was passed unanimously by the Florida House Friday -- made a request in federal court Monday to continue to have a federal judge meddle, and have the ultimate say, in Floridas business.

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Marco Rubio, Rand Paul: GOP's Exploratory Soldiers

Submitted by Nancy Smith on March 26, 2013 - 10:49am

Marco Rubio and Rand Paul are more than charismatic risk-takers who handle the media with skill and confidence and want to be president.

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Ex-RPOF Chair Jim Greer Faces Sentencing This Week

Jim Turner

March 25, 2013 - 7:00pm

Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer, who pled guilty on the eve of a potentially politically salacious trial that could have aired the laundry of the state GOP and former Gov. Charlie Crist, will find out his prison fate Wednesday.

Greers pretrial guilty plea in February allowed him to avert the possibility of up to 75 years in prison for fraud, money laundering and theft when he again appears before Circuit Judge Donald Myers at 1:30 p.m. in Orlando.

Memo to Rick Scott: Cut Your Losses on Drug-Testing Welfare Recipients

Nancy Smith

March 25, 2013 - 7:00pm

Good morning, Gov. Scott: Begging your indulgence, sir, I offer a little advice.

Florida Gulf Coast Eagles: Will March Madness Wins Mean More of Everything for FGCU?

Eric Giunta

March 24, 2013 - 7:00pm

Who Killed the New Majority?

Pat Buchanan

March 25, 2013 - 7:00pm

The Republican National Committee has produced an "autopsy" on what went wrong in 2012, when the party failed to win the White House and lost seats in Congress.

Yet, the crisis of the Grand Old Party goes back much further.

First, some history. The Frank Lloyd Wright of the New Majority was Richard Nixon, who picked up the pieces of the party after Goldwater's defeat had left Republicans with just a third of the House and Senate.

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