The fight over medical marijuana has raked in big money from both supporters and opponents of the constitutional amendment, but far more donations have come from the campaign fighting for medical marijuana in Florida than those fighting against it.
Until I saw the latest copy of The American Spectator, I was starting to feel like the only soul in America who couldn't swallow President Barack Obama's almost sneering dismissal of the $400-million-for-hostages scandal.
Donald Trump, the man who defied every political rule and prevailed to win his party's nomination, last week took on perhaps the most sacred political rule of all: Never attack a Gold Star family. Not just because it alienates a vital constituency but because it reveals a shocking absence of elementary decency and of natural empathy for the most profound of human sorrows -- parental grief.
British manufacturer Oxitec says it has the answer to four very bad mosquito-borne viral diseases -- dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika.
The conversation across America might have been focused on the presidential race or the upcoming Rio Olympics --- but in Florida, everyone was abuzz about Zika.
The mosquito-borne virus had been a nagging presence for a while, but in the week after the first homegrown cases of the disease were disclosed, talk took off about the sickness with a funny name and serious consequences.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has put himself between veterans after engaging in a heated spat earlier this week with the family of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, killed in the Iraq war in 2004. And Trump's continued attacks on the family could prove costly in Florida, a state 1.6 million veterans call home.
Earlier this week federal health officials urged pregnant women to stay away from a Miami neighborhood where they discovered additional cases of Zika infection — apparently the first time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ever advised people not to travel to a place in the continental United States.
On Thursday the CDC announced the neighborhood tested clear, but scientists would continue to keep a wary eye on it.
It's killing Ed Pozzuoli that Donald Trump is poised to lose an election Republicans should be winning.
