The voices are growing against Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, for a recent campaign ad where he says he “led the fight to abolish Common Core,” but the well of legislation supporting that claim has run dry.
Incoming Florida Senate President Joe Negron, whose plans for his two-year term focus heavily on higher education, wants to see more of the state's universities achieve "national elite" status.
Although the University of Florida is currently the only state school in the prestigious, 62-member Association of American Universities, Negron, R-Stuart, believes there can be more.
Florida’s 2016-2017 fiscal year’s $80 billion budget begins Friday, beginning the year with a new set of funding for state departments, education, health and human services and other important projects for the Sunshine State.
Watching Hillary Clinton beaming sidewise on stage as Elizabeth Warren taunted Donald Trump brought the Wrigley twin ditty to mind: Double your pleasure, double your fun, with double good, double good, Doublemint gum.
Algae blooms are everywhere in Martin County. They lie like a blanket on the C-44 Canal, on the St. Lucie River, throughout the estuary, even at the beach.
Anti-Common Core activists have been quiet in recent months, but the groups are gearing up to stick it to politicians supporting the controversial standards and their implementation in Florida.
One group, Florida Parents Against Common Core, has taken aim at Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, and recent ad which says Workman lead the fight to abolish Common Core.
Workman will battle Rep. Debbie Mayfield for Florida’s Senate District 17 and recent ads have touted his accomplishments as a state representative.
The Florida congressional landscape is set to radically change after the November elections. Between redistricting, some unexpected retirements and two representatives running for the U.S. Senate, almost half of the Sunshine State’s 27 congressional seats are in play in the primaries or the general election. With that many seats up for grabs, Florida can expect some differences in how it's represented starting in 2017.
Florida Democrats had little trouble rounding up enough members to call for a vote on whether to hold a special session dealing with gun control as a reaction to last month's mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
However, it may be nearly impossible over the next week to gather enough Republican lawmakers willing to make the trek to humid Tallahassee in an election year to discuss a proposed prohibition on gun sales to people on federal terrorism watch lists.
The first case of microcephaly, a birth defect in which a baby's head is significantly smaller than expected, often due to abnormal brain development, caused by Zika has come to Florida, the Florida Department of Health announced Tuesday.
