Almost a half-dozen Democratic state legislators from South Florida are being accused of not residing in the districts they represent. The offense is not only politically unpopular, it could get ...

"For the People" might be the slogan of John Morgan's law firm, but John Morgan and his family certainly don't act like any common person they represent. While they outwardly state they're not for ...

With Japan reeling from accidents at nuclear power facilities after the recent tsunamis, politicians in Tallahassee are responding by reviewing state plans to cope with nuclear disaster and ...

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi named Master Deputy Tim Liberatore of the Marion County sheriffs office the attorney general's 2013 Law Enforcement Officer of the Year on Thursday. In 2012 ...

With a new poll showing around half of Florida Republicans remain undecided on who they want to see replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the Senate in 2016, a new contender could be in the ...

If Congress had a "Most Controversial Freshman Award," Rep. Bill Posey would be a leading contender -- if not a shoo-in. The Republican lawmaker from Florida's Space Coast irritated House ...

That came home to me again Friday in a Wall Street Journal story, "The EPA's Secret Staff," in which a WSJ reporter revealed the EPA's secretly worked with environmental lobbyists to craft its ...

Ready to bow out of Congress after almost 30 years, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.. scored a win as her “Nicaraguan Investment and Conditionality Act” (NICA) has been sent to President ...

This week, a new Republican candidate emerged in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., in 2016 even as a potential candidate said she wasn’t going to enter the already crowded ...

Notably for Florida, the WIIN act contains much of the language originally passed in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016, which was critical to restoring the Everglades and is ...

Amid the uproar of looming November elections, casino gambling policy in Florida has so gone off the boil. But you wouldn't know that by gambling opponent No Casinos (NC) -- still out there, still ...

Optometrists are now among the largest donors to political causes in Florida, according to state tax filings. The eye-care specialists, who are not medical doctors, have amassed a war chest of ...