As a former cocaine addict, Rep. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, ought to know that no law will keep a user from his drug of choice.
Yet that’s the goal of the bill he sponsored and the House passed this week that bans retailers from selling bongs and pipes made of glass, stone, metal and acrylic.
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Paulette Wilson paid for her own health insurance policy before the economy tanked and she had to let it go.
The self-employed cosmetologist from Miami Gardens, who suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes, earned about $13,000 last year.
She relies on neighborhood clinics for a...
Gov. Rick Scott needs to see a bill to determine whether he believes Florida should ban texting while driving.
He needs to see the bill to determine whether he supports lifelong alimony.
On Monday, he told the Palm Beach Post Editorial Board that he didn’t know which Senate alternative to expanding Medicaid...
It doesn’t matter that Florida’s senators don’t believe in gay marriage.
There was a time when senators didn’t believe in voting as a right for women or African Americans or white men who didn’t own property.
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As Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Christ on this Good Friday and prepare for Resurrection Sunday, some would do well to remember that Jesus can’t be crucified again.
You wouldn’t know that by the visceral reaction of so many to the “step on Jesus” incident at Florida Atlantic University.
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House Speaker Will Weatherford said he wonders what America would be like if his mother, who home schooled him, had home schooled President Obama.
That’s easy. We’d still be waiting for our first African American president.
The Wesley Chapel Republican assumes the president would share his...
House Speaker Will Weatherford said he wonders what America would be like if his mother, who home schooled him, had home schooled President Obama.
That’s easy. We’d still be waiting for our first African American president.
The Wesley Chapel Republican assumes the president would share his...
House Speaker Will Weatherford said he wonders what America would be like if his mother, who home schooled him, had home schooled President Obama.
That’s easy. We’d still be waiting for our first African American president.
The Wesley Chapel Republican assumes the president would share his...
Florida’s lieutenant governor resigned this week after law enforcement officials questioned her about ties to a veterans charity that is the subject of a $300 million multi-state racketeering investigation.
It was an abrupt end to an unremarkable tenure, except for weird controversies that made Carroll a liability Gov. Rick Scott will no longer have to contend with in 2014.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia last week said that Congress’ re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act is a "perpetuation of racial entitlement.”
Lawmakers, he said, would never vote against the measure because they’re afraid of being politically incorrect.
“Whenever a society...
