President Barack Obama’s efforts to normalize relations with Cuba are taking center stage in South Florida as what promises to be one of the most competitive congressional races in the nation is starting to heat up.
Our enemies are waging a war we must not continue to ignore. The loss of life, the brutal injuries and the destruction that have rocked Brussels are unconscionable, and we as a people must decide that enough is enough.
Their soldiers don't march in lock step and they don't answer to a single general. What they lack in conventional organization, they more than make up for in savagery and disregard for human life. Paris, San Bernardino and now Brussels - their only pattern is that of opportunities seized in the void of real American leadership.
The opinion by Bertha Madras, Ph.D. on medical marijuana, “A Blunt Force to Crush Floridians' Opposition to Marijuana,” (March 2) prior to the Legislature passing HB 307 “The Medical Use of Cannabis,” shows troubling misunderstanding of the subjects where she claims expertise. Her letter was circulated widely as a pro-prohibition manifesto, though the governor has just signed the bill.
From birth, Ashley Elliot wasn’t set up to succeed. When she was born, she was addicted to drugs due to her mother’s drug usage during her pregnancy -- an issue which carried on in much of Elliot’s childhood. Elliot’s mother bounced in and out of her life.
“[My brother and I] grew up on [government subsidies,]” Elliot told Sunshine State News.
Elliot has attended public schools, a charter school, an alternative school and now attends a private school as a result of Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship program.
Even with the full weight of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee behind her, CD 26 candidate Annette Taddeo continues to hear the boo birds.
Today she got more bad news.
The Committee for Hispanic Causes (CHC) BOLD PAC came out with an endorsement for Joe Garcia, the Democrat who held the seat from 2013 to 2015, before Republican Carlos Curbelo beat him. Garcia is challenging Taddeo in the Democratic primary.
Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday signed nine bills, including a high-profile measure requiring local law-enforcement agencies to submit "rape kits" to be tested and another allowing the creation of a needle-exchange program in Miami-Dade County.
Scott praised SB 636, which would establish time limits for sexual-assault evidence --- known as rape kits --- to be submitted to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for testing. He said in a statement the move would "provide thousands of women with a renewed sense of safety and closure as they heal from the horrific crime of rape."
The sixth anniversary of Obamacare leaves nothing to celebrate; it was bad medicine when signed into law on March 23, 2010 and remains bad medicine today. President Obama promised affordability and accessibility. Unfortunately, that result was not delivered to the American people, their health care, their bank accounts, and our nation’s economy.
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chairwoman of the U.S. House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, held a hearing on Tuesday on “Hezbollah’s Threat Against U.S. National Security Interests in the Middle East.” Ros-Lehtinen said the following in her opening statement:
Running in the crowded Republican primary to replace U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., Martin County School Board Member Rebecca Negron announced on Wednesday she had made the ballot by petition.
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