As House Speaker Steve Crisafulli started the 2016 legislative session Tuesday, he couldn't avoid bringing up last year.
Bottom line, 2015 was a slog, with lawmakers holding a regular session and three special sessions amid sometimes-nasty disputes between the House and Senate.
Supporters of Florida's controversial student voucher program will head to Tallahassee Jan. 19 as part of a rally in support of the program which allows thousands of low-income students to attend charter schools in the Sunshine State.
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Snapchat users can now get a first-hand peek at what life at the White House is like thanks to the White House's new Snapchat account, which made its debut Monday.
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The Florida Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, will gather in the Capitol Courtyard in Tallahassee Thursday to protest high-stakes testing and other education issues in the Sunshine State.
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State lawmakers, lobbyists, the governor, city mayors, political groups and members of the public descended upon Tallahassee Tuesday to mark the opening day of Florida’s 60-day legislative session.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) took aim at former Miami Dade Democratic Chairwoman Annette Taddeo on Tuesday, insisting her inability to clear the decks shows she is a weak candidate as she vies to take on U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., in November.
Here's a surprise -- or maybe not so much: MoveOn, one of the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots groups -- the Democratic action committee most responsible for mobilizing Barack Obama's hugely successful Internet fundraising campaign through its MoveOn.org website in 2008 -- will back Bernie Sanders in 2016, not Hillary Clinton.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released its latest forecast of Florida orange production and, while unchanged from last month, the figures remain almost 30 percent below what they were last season.
After Gov. Rick Scott gave his sixth State of the State address on Tuesday, groups across Florida reacted to his call for $1 billion in tax cuts and an additional $250 million for Enterprise Florida to recruit businesses to the state.
Fiscal conservative group Americans for Prosperity’s (AFP) Florida chapter weighed in after Gov. Rick Scott gave his State of the State address on Tuesday. Chris Hudson, AFP’s director in Florida, cheered Scott’s call for more tax cuts but continued to oppose the governor’s proposal to send $250 million to Enterprise Florida.
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