About 40,000 of Florida's most seriously sick and poor people won't have their state-paid health coverage cut -- at least for now -...

A Florida school board member is drawing fire from some parents for saying they should spend money on school clothes for their children ins...

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So Proud Joe is the former Executive Director of the Cuban American National Foundation and is a well known figure in South Florida and a ...

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As governor, Bush, a Republican, was largely silent on global warming. His successor, Charlie Crist _ who is often mentioned as a possible ...

Candidate Kevin Beckner garnered the 7,400 signatures need to get on the ballot. Beckner is running for district 6 of the Hillsborough Coun...

Tomorrow, April 25, is the National Day of Silence, when students around the country will take a vow of silence to draw attention to anti-G...

Catherine Durkin Robinson puts words in people's mouths. For a price. The 38-year-old speechwriter charges 50 cents a word for toasts a...

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Even a “known drug dealer” is legally allowed to photograph undercover cops as they serve a search warrant, if he takes the photos from a p...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Anna in the Tropics, written by Nilo Cruz, and directed by Dr. Sybil Barnes-Johnson, is being performed thi...

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This is a tremendous social crisis, greater even than the issue of slavery. For those who don’t know, fundamentalist right-wingers in Flori...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that that President Bush will nominate Army Gen. David Petraeus as the new commander of U.S. ...

Today, the USA is a synonym for corruption, greed, homelessness, hopelessness, high crime and never-ending financial speculation. People ar...

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Seems that paragon of jurisprudence and rational thought, Florida, thinks that having a pair of these on the hitch of your truck is a bad i...

"I guess these guys living in Puerto Rico learned how to swim." A dozen monkeys that escaped from a wildlife preserve during the ...

Pam Iorio was re-elected to her second term as Tampa mayor last year. Previously she served as Hillsborough supervisor of elections and was...

In the past, Castro has liked to say to visiting U.S. congressmen, "Give my best to my nephew, would you? He's in Congress, you k...

Simon Rosenberg said the coming clash in the party will be between the "activist" class and the "governing" class for t...

For a few cycles now, I keep hearing talk that South Florida may be ready for a somewhat more enlightened approach to Cuba than the "s...

The fastest route through the Everglades could lead drivers straight through a private company's toll booths by this time next year.The...

A plastic surgeon in Florida has come out with a picture book for young children called, "My Beautiful Mommy". It helps kids to c...

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A sixty-two year old woman who earns half her income from the sale of sprouts and microgreens at the downtown Sarasota Farmer’s Market was ...

I came across a very interesting form among the Bylaws of Polk County's DEC, Democratic Executive Committee. It is a Loyalty Oath that ...

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On April 22nd, 2008, we will celebrate Earth Day. Faye Armitage, who is running for Congress against John Mica in District 7, is the smart ...

This is not a partisan issue, yet we belong to the party whose members often advocate for pro-life issues. I cannot imagine a more pro-life...

When the summer beach season arrives in May, locals and visitors will see a Clearwater Beach vastly different from last year's version,...

Six of 11 student protesters are still fasting until they can talk about UF's investment policy with UF President Bernie Machen, but th...

Troubled by restaurants that don't disclose the price of their specials, Aventura Commissioner Bob Diamond is pushing the county to ado...

When Congress approved the President’s authorization to go to war in Iraq – no matter how well-intentioned – it was giving the green light ...

"That kind of divisive language is part of the reason why Mario Diaz-Balart was recently ranked 406th in Congress and last in bringing...

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A discussion in the Florida Legislature on Thursday turned a bit awkward Thursday. The subject? Replicas of bull testicles hanging from veh...

It’s big, purple and coming to the state of Florida. AARP and Divided We Fail unveil the “Champmobile,” an interactive educational vehicle ...

Sen. Ronda Storms attempted unsuccessfully Wednesday to eliminate the Byrd Alzheimer's center's state earmark, arguing that doing s...

The idea is the brainchild of two-term city council member John Dingfelder. He wants to bar corporate and PAC donations, reduce the individ...

50's style red-baiting has become as salient as... hula hoops -- except in Florida where McCarthyite tactics are frequently on full dis...