A tropical storm that formed quickly near Tampa -- and at 10:45 a.m. Monday was only 35 miles offshore -- is threatening southern Florida with heavy rain, strong winds and possible flash flooding.
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., continues to call for stopping congressional pay raises until the federal government has a balanced budget, as he testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee last week.
Our elections are supposed to be the greatest opportunity to make our voices heard in deciding who we send to Tallahassee. We expect that the people we elect will represent the voters that elected them to office. Unfortunately, the Florida Legislature has become a body that represents the special interest that contributes the most money to their election efforts.
As July comes to end, gas prices continue to climb in Florida but they remain slightly below the national average.
With buzz growing that he could run for governor next year, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., the chairman of the U.S. House National Security Subcommittee, has taken aim at Iran in recent days.
Looking, as prudent people are disinclined to do, on the bright side, there are a few vagrant reasons for cheerfulness, beginning with this: Summer love is sprouting like dandelions. To the list of history's sublime romances -- Abelard and Heloise, Romeo and Juliet, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy -- add the torrid affair between Anthony Scaramucci and Donald Trump. The former's sizzling swoon for the latter is the most remarkable public display of hormonal heat since -- here a melancholy thought intrudes -- Jeff Sessions tumbled into love with Trump. Long ago. Last year.
Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam has launched an all-out offensive against CNN, the 24-hour news network, posting a tweet Saturday denouncing “liberals” and “fake news.”
Three Florida congressmen banded together Friday to blast the Maduro regime, promising more sanctions against the South American country if the government proceeds with a plan to create a new constitution and promote a dictatorship.
