The race for Florida House District 36 can be read as an exact replica of how Republicans would like to see elections all over the country fall: a political newcomer takes on a two-term incumbent in a Democratic district and rides a Republican wave to an upset.
The money's gone. Short of imposing new taxes, there's nothing left to get started on virtually any part of Everglades restoration. Why does that suddenly come as such a surprise?
It certainly shocked Chief U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno on Thursday, because on March 31 he had ordered a $700 million reservoir that had been stopped and destroyed halfway to completion, rebuilt. The South Florida Water Management District had money then.
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With less than two weeks to go until the general election, Floridas unemployment continues to grow -- and the politicians are attempting to point the blame at their opponents.
The gubernatorial candidates weighed in on the news Friday that the state's unemployment rate went up in September -- and both Democratic nominee state CFO Alex Sink and Republican candidate Rick Scott focused on their experience creating jobs in the private sector.
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Juan Williams is nervous about Muslim-garbed passengers on airplanes. NPR ought to be nervous about the impending Republican tide sweeping over Congress.
National Propaganda Radio's firing of Williams for alleged Islamophobia has spawned a political backlash, and when the liberal Williams is backed by conservatives, you know it's serious.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., plans to introduce legislation to end federal funding of NPR. His move follows a House bill, sponsored by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., that would do the same thing.
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While former President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney have been conspicuously absent from the campaign trail, you haven't heard the last of them.
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink is losing her home county, if early voting patterns are any indication.
Bringing up the rear in a three-way race for U.S. Senate, Kendrick Meek, the Democratric U.S. representative from Miami, is not giving up the fight with little more than a week to go before Election Day.
A decade after the infamous butterfly ballots and hanging chads made Palm Beach County a national laughing stock, Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher is snagged in a new paperwork snafu.
The candidates in the U.S. Senate race are weighing in on Florida's continued high unemployment --11.9 percent in September.
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