Today’s Politico article is an insightful. It touches on some of the issues we have highlighted previously as well as some other issues we’ve avoided discussing on this site. It is well worth a read.
Today, we begin a new weekly feature during session honoring the best progressive legislator from the previous week. In this particular case, our first award, this is a cumulative award from the first three weeks of the 2013 Legislative Session. Orange County Freshman Rep. Randolph Bracy III came through a highly competitive mulch-candidate House primary […]
Jeb Bush has had a BAD month. Now this. Didn’t something like this just force someone to resign office here in Florida?
Florida Democrats are already crowing about the opportunities in 2014 when unpopular Governor Rick Scott will be at the top of the GOP ticket. But Scott while a novice politician is learning on the job and quite frankly improving as time goes on. Recent developments, including the relocation of a major Boeing training facility to […]
Florida and Miami both tip-off today in NCAA Tournament play and both schools have a rich basketball tradition. Great historic players like Neal Walk (Florida) and Rick Barry (Miami) came through each program in the 1960s, but Miami actually dropped its program in 1971 only to revive it as an Independent in 1985, before becoming […]
For the second time in as many weeks the Governor’s office announced that high-end jobs are moving to southeast Florida.
More bad publicity for the Palm Beach County Democratic Party from the conservative website BIZPAC Review.
Immediately after the Republicans took complete control of state Government in January 1999, Republicans began talking often and openly about changing Florida’s court system and the way judges are selected. With the Republicans looking to impose a strict ideological framework on state government, the courts stood in the way of the radical rewrite of governance […]
Time to ditch the Ferrero method of picking candidates By Steven Kurlander Much of the analysis of the resignation of Florida’s Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll last week is being framed as yet another ethics failure of Governor Scott’s administration and the need for campaign financing reform and better financial and business disclosure by public officials. […]




