Florida might not have been on a train bound for nowhere this week, but there were still times when the state's government and political news felt a lot like "The Gambler.
"You've got to know when to hold 'em," Kenny Rogers sings in the country music classic. "Know when to fold 'em. Know when to walk away. And know when to run."
Nearly 8,000 people have emailed Gov. Rick Scott to oppose Rep. Charles McBurney’s judgeship appointment after the National Rifle Association’s called on its members to tell the governor McBurney is “unfit” to be a circuit court judge.
U.S. Senate hopeful and former combat veteran Todd Wilcox was inducted into the Army ROTC Hall of Fame in Fort Knox, Kentucky on Friday.
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Bob Poe revealed in the video on this page that he is HIV positive.
While I applaud Mr. Poe, Democratic candidate in CD 10, for having the courage to reveal this information on the one hand, there is another nagging part that asks the question, why now?
Why, during a congressional campaign in which he is losing? Is it for free publicity? He sure as hell is going to get that.
Is it for voter sympathy? If so, I'm not so sure this was the way to go.
Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Friday that Florida is the top state in the nation in revenue and jobs supported by recreational saltwater fishing in the nation.
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This week, the U.S. House passed the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act” (PROMESA) with the Florida delegation splitting on odd lines. The bill from U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wisc., would let Puerto Rico restructure its $72 billion debt in return for more federal oversight of local affairs.
Florida students performed slightly better on this year’s mathematics portion of the Florida Standards Assessment than they did last year, but the passing percentage remained the same for the English Language Arts section of the test, according to results released Friday.
If Thursday's South Florida Water Management Board meeting in Fort Myers sounded like deja vu all over again, that's because the annual "buy land, move the water south" campaign is back.
With reports that the U.S. government and Cuban regime have discussed the possibility of releasing convicted Cuban spy Ana Belen Montes in exchange for Joanne Chesimard, who killed a New Jersey police officer and has been living in Cuba for decades, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., expressed his firm opposition to the idea this week:
The morning after, the nation awakes asking: What have we done?
