According to Gov. Rick Scott, his budgets are only getting better --- even as they keep getting bigger.
"What's great about this is, it's way better than my first budget," Scott said Monday as he unveiled his $79.3 billion spending plan for the year that begins July 1. The governor noted that the state was facing a shortfall when he took office in 2011, prompting cuts.
Her eyes already on next November’s general election, Hillary Clinton heads to Orlando on Wednesday to build up her team in Florida.
WASHINGTON -- Give thanks this day for some indirect blessings of liberty, including the behavior-beyond-satire of what are generously called institutions of higher education. People who are imprecisely called educators have taught, by their negative examples, what intelligence is not.
Voters next November will almost certainly have the chance to again decide whether Florida should legalize medical marijuana, after narrowly rejecting an almost-identical proposal a year ago.
A Quinnipiac University poll last month found that nearly 90 percent of Florida voters support allowing adults to use medical marijuana. Numerous other surveys in Florida and across the country consistently show that a majority of voters endorse medical marijuana for sick and dying patients.
And voters aren't the only ones who've warmed up to the once-sticky issue.
Sorry, but I'm not buying into the attempt to shame Americans into accepting hordes of Syrian refugees.
Even though Santa Claus is already at malls across the Sunshine State and the radio stations are playing Christmas music, Friday marks the traditional start of the holiday shopping season and groups offered insights on it this week.
From his perch on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., is promising a bill next week to force President Barack Obama to come to Congress with a plan on handling the civil war in Syria.
Former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, the favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination, is heading to Central Florida next week as she readies for the primary on March 15.
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With the Thanksgiving weekend being the traditional start of holiday shopping, Florida TaxWatch released a guide to where sales tax dollars go.
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