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Good Grief

December 22, 2015 - 2:00am

2015's Top Florida Education Stories

December 24, 2015 - 7:30am

2015 was a year of adjustment -- and readjustment -- for Florida’s education system. It marked the end of the state’s long running standardized test, the FCAT, and was the first full year of the Florida Standards.

Derrick Henry, the 2015 Heisman Trophy Winner From Yulee, Honored in Congressional Record

December 21, 2015 - 2:00pm
Derrick Henry

U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., the chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, formally recognized 2015 Heisman Trophy Winner Derrick Henry, of Yulee, Florida, with the following statement in the official Congressional Record. The following is the full text of Crenshaw statement:

Lindsey Graham Bows Out of Presidential Race

December 21, 2015 - 9:45am
Lindsey Graham

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, announced on Monday that he was suspending his dark horse bid for the Republican presidential nomination. 

Graham has not made much of a splash in the national polls or in surveys of key states, including his home base of South Carolina which holds its primary after Iowa and New Hampshire have their say. While Graham had won applause from the pundits for his witty debate performances, he remained stuck in the undercard debate with other dark horse candidates. 

A Busy Year for Florida Delegation Sets the Stage for Dramatic 2016

December 23, 2015 - 6:30am
Dan Webster, Corrine Brown, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Jeff Miller and Ted Deutch

The Florida congressional delegation endured a year of highs and lows as they focused on veterans issues, the Middle East and leadership contests even as redistricting back home made them keep their focus on 2016. 

The Jeb Bush Experience: Money Can't Buy You Love

December 21, 2015 - 9:00pm

One of many goofy ideas held by liberals is that it is a bad thing to have “money in politics.” They want to regulate it, tax it, and otherwise control it -- all in the public interest, of course.

Sunshine State News' Top 10 Florida Stories of 2015

December 21, 2015 - 9:00pm

It was an off-election year, one you might have thought would be a sleeper for the political class in Florida. But 2015 turned out to be a noisy family food fight from beginning nearly to end, a year dominated by the courts and leaving a shortage of happy people in and around the Capitol. Here is our list of stories that topped the news in the Sunshine State this year.

Higher Education Is a House Divided

December 21, 2015 - 7:00am

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Although he is just 22, Andrew Zeller is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Purdue University. He is one reason the school is a rare exception to the rule of unreason on American campuses, where freedom of speech is under siege.

Pay All Ye Faithful

Democratic Debate Winners and Losers

December 19, 2015 - 11:00pm

The three Democrats running for the presidency clashed in a debate Saturday night in New Hampshire, home of the first primary. While the fight for the Republican nomination has been receiving the most attention, in recent days the Democratic contest has been front and center after news broke that Bernie Sanders’ campaign tapped into unauthorized voter files housed by the DNC. That was expected to be a major bone of contention but the issue fizzled after the first minutes. 

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