Our state of Florida is no stranger to catastrophic storms and devastating hurricanes. With 98 percent of Florida communities participating in the federal National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), homeowners and business owners know firsthand the importance of purchasing flood insurance to protect their families and businesses from disaster.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., thinks closing a federal loophole can help add to the number of doctors across the nation.
Two Florida congressmen teamed up on Monday to showcase a bill they hope will encourage boating safety.
Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., and U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., brought out the “Austin and Perry Safe Boating Incentive Act.” The bill, which was named after Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, two teenagers who went missing this past summer while boating, creates new tax credits for purchasing safety beacons for boating.
President Obama predicted during a CNN en Español interview Monday that Congress will lift the 5-decade-old Cuba embargo sometime during the administration of the next president.
It is seldom that the fate of a nation can be traced to what happened on one particular day. But that may be what happens in the United States of America on Tuesday, March 15, 2016.
It should be no surprise presidential candidate Marco Rubio spent the final days of Florida's Republican primary campaign visiting places like Melbourne and The Villages. Or that former President Bill Clinton was campaigning for his wife, Democrat Hillary Clinton, in places like Tallahassee.
After all, a big part of winning primaries involves turning out the base.
Voter registration for the presidential primaries closed last month. And here are seven party takeaways from numbers compiled by the state Division of Elections:
Liberals constantly complain about the lack of civil discourse in politics, even as they constantly lower the bar themselves.
Placing third in most polls of Florida, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made his final appeal to Sunshine State Republicans on Monday, noting he has the support of almost 400 leading conservatives across the state.
Barely 24 hours until the votes are counted, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi threw her support to businessman Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Bondi, who received national attention for leading a coalition of state attorneys general in an unsuccessful constitutional challenge to President Barack Obama’s federal health-care law, appeared with Trump at an event in her home base of Tampa on Monday afternoon.
