In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf of [...]
Florida waterways, particularly those in South Florida, are prone to bacterial exposure due to aging or malfunctioning wastewater systems, surface runoff and animal byproducts. In a given year, Miami-Dade, Broward [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis talked up a potential legal challenge to the College Football Playoff selection process, contending that the $1 million he just budgeted to potentially pursue legal action challenging it [...]
Sarasota County School Board member Karen Rose says colleague Bridget Ziegler must resign. “Our community has been rocked by the disturbing revelations surrounding my fellow School Board member Bridget Ziegler [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ budget fully funds an affordable housing trust. Time will tell if the Legislature follows his lead. The Sadowski Coalition praised DeSantis, who has consistently supported state housing [...]
The contest to succeed Rep. Patricia Hawkins-Williams is turning into a crowded Primary with four Democrats making a bid to represent Broward County’s House District 98. All four vying to [...]
The Governor, Senate President and House Speaker have also called for Ziegler’s exit.Florida’s highest ranking House Democrat agrees with the state GOP’s top elected officials: Republican Party of Florida Chair [...]
Ron DeSantis is confident he’s going to win the Iowa caucuses — and if he does, they may be queued up to get a Cabinet Department. In remarks in Iowa, [...]
The ripple effects of former Miami City Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla’s suspension for corruption charges continue. In a letter this week, the Florida Department of Revenue (DOR) notified [...]
Florida Democratic Chair Nikki Fried is calling for her counterpart in the GOP to resign after allegations surfaced that he sexually assaulted a partner with whom he and his wife [...]
Lee County appears to be moving forward with a “false flag” for resilience. In late September, the board voted 4-1 to move forward with a controversial amendment to the county’s [...]
Lawmakers are again looking to tackle a different kind of inflation problem in Florida: balloons. This month, St. Petersburg Sen. Nick DiCeglie and St. Pete Beach Rep. Linda Chaney filed [...]
Step inside the White House during the holidays by walking beneath the branches of a Christmas tree. Stroll along a hallway decorated with oversized holiday candy and other sweets. See [...]
The 2024 presidential election is drawing an unusually robust field of independent, third-party and long shot candidates hoping to capitalize on Americans’ ambivalence and frustration over a likely rematch between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald [...]
The former President is Palmetto State bound. Donald Trump is using a college football rivalry weekend to bask among his supporters in a state and region that are key to his presidential [...]
The super PAC backing Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is hoping to harness the power of influential Iowa endorsers as the Florida Governor aims to surge ahead of both former President [...]
If you have a healthy relationship with your family and speak to them all the time, you’re playing touch. If you see your family only once a year, it’s tackle. [...]
Four employees – including the Communications Director and a human resources executive – were dismissed this week before the holidays at Disney World’s government in the aftermath of the state’s [...]
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera just won an election to become a Republican State Committeeman. The former lobbyist and state director for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign won the [...]
The University of Florida President Ben Sasse took aim at “endless online screaming” and released a statement that Rep. Randy Fine’s allegation about an antisemitic professor at the state’s flagship [...]
'Everything is so darn expensive and my children grow up so fast that I need $2 t-shirts. OK?'Florida’s First Lady is explaining her penchant for discount shopping in Iowa Sunday, [...]
Formula One is hoping to turn its luck around on the Strip, like so many other Las Vegas visitors who blow a big bankroll on arrival. The elite global motorsports [...]
Passing the gravy With Thanksgiving less than a week away, Congress has finally gone home to families. But after 11 weeks of bitter infighting, they show up at the dinner [...]
Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is stumping alongside Tom Keen, the Democrat competing in a highly anticipated Jan. 16 Special Election in House District 35. The Miami Democrat joined Keen in [...]
Florida’s First Lady wants an end to the conflict in the Middle East, calling for Hamas to lay down its weapons and to release all hostages. Casey DeSantis posted her demand [...]
If you own one of Florida’s more than 1.5 million condo units and are having issues with a potentially malfeasant condo board, “good luck” getting help from the government. That’s [...]
The MolinaCares Accord, in collaboration with Molina Healthcare of Florida, evaluated ways to establish a healthy and resilient Florida with a virtual panel discussion looking at various nonprofit organizations’ methods [...]
Florida’s inmate population today is about 80,000. About 5% of them are confirmed veterans, though that share is likely far larger, research has shown. And while veterans compose only a [...]
A political novice and one of the world’s wealthiest millennials, Vivek Ramaswamy has waged a whirlwind presidential campaign mirroring his meteoric rise as a biotech entrepreneur. On everything from deporting [...]
Republicans in the Big Sky State are coming up small for Ron DeSantis, with a new poll of the state’s Republicans showing him poorly positioned to take the state’s 31 delegates [...]
A second investigation into claims of impropriety against Miami Beach Rep. Fabián Basabe ended similarly as the first, with a finding of “no evidence” of wrongdoing by the freshman lawmaker. [...]
When Citrus County Sheriff’s Col. Elena Vitt asked County Commissioners in May to support a federal grant application to hire 44 deputies, the attitude in the room was almost self-defeating. [...]
The House passed a series of bills during a Special Session to expand security grants for Jewish day schools, put more restrictions on investments in businesses connected to Iran, increase [...]
Miami Beach voters on Tuesday will select three new City Commissioners who, alongside a new Mayor, will replace more than half the city’s elected officials. While the Mayor’s race is [...]
Ron DeSantis’s campaign for President is on the verge of its most significant endorsement by way of the Governor of must-win Iowa. The Never Back Down super PAC is spotlighting (and [...]
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott said neither Gov. Ron DeSantis nor former President Donald Trump has a winning message in 2024. Speaking to a Republican gathering in the state both pols [...]
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is offering her moral support to House District 35 candidate Marucci Guzmán. The former New York U.S. Senator and First Lady chimed in on social [...]
Florida’s crackdown on flashily packaged, kid-enticing drugs continues. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson announced the discovery of more than 8,700 hemp-extract packages with candy-like designs that would likely draw the [...]
The latest Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll of 404 likely Hawkeye State caucus participants finds Ron DeSantis 27 points behind Donald Trump and tied at 16% with Nikki Haley. However, the new ad (“Fight. [...]
Ron DeSantis has stepped in it with his distinctive choice in footwear, according to the Donald Trump campaign. In the wake of an interview where the Governor rebutted recurrent claims [...]
Ron DeSantis admits that his debate with California’s Governor next month is a bid to wrest attention from former President Donald Trump. During a segment on the PBD Podcast, the Florida [...]
A fight between two groups turned deadly in Florida when a shooting in a Tampa street during Halloween festivities resulted in two deaths and 18 people hospitalized early Sunday morning, [...]
The ongoing feud between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump took a turn into Cheech and Chong territory Saturday. In the latest of a series of statements from Team Trump suggesting the DeSantis campaign is [...]
If you’re a Florida resident living in a rural area not exclusively zoned for residential use, beware of stray bullets; there isn’t much, legally, to protect you from them. State [...]
Most people who die in hurricanes are senior citizens. Now, U.S. Reps. Maxwell Frost and Daniel Webster want a review of what can be done to prevent those deaths. The [...]
The Congressman has lost ground since a poll earlier this month.U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has enjoyed national publicity in the wake of the successful removal of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, but [...]
Negotiations between the city of Jacksonville and the Jaguars regarding stadium renovations are going well, per a representative from Mayor Donna Deegan’s office. But don’t expect anything to be presented to [...]
Florida’s senior Senator is laying blame for an anti-Israeli view from America’s youth on social media. In an interview with Sean Hannity, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio contended that TikTok was to blame [...]
In politics, there are always skeletons lurking, waiting to jump out of the closet. For U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, who is running for House Speaker amid chaos on Capitol Hill [...]
Expect that a President Ron DeSantis would have a firm hand on federal law enforcement agencies, if comments made Saturday in Iowa mean anything. During an event in Clinton Saturday, the Republican [...]