It's unbelievable that members of the U.S. Senate on both sides of the aisle are receiving so much resistance to make low cost prescription drugs from other countries available to Americans. The same worn-out arguments still are stopping this process and all it really comes down to are pharmaceutical manufacturers not wanting lose the billions in profits. ...more

December 11, 2009

Senators trying to craft bipartisan climate legislation offered a revised proposal Thursday that would add incentives for building nuclear power plants and open the way for expanded oil and gas drilling off the nation's coastlines in hopes of attracting wider support. ...more

December 10, 2009

Dogged by spending controversies, party rifts and even calls for his ouster, state Republican Party chairman Jim Greer received a welcome vote of confidence from his executive board on Thursday. ...more

December 10, 2009

U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio refused Monday to say how he would vote on the controversial SunRail proposal now being considered by the state Legislature, even though a similar proposal passed the state House with his support as speaker in 2008. ...more

December 8, 2009

Paula Hawkins, who in 1980 became the first woman elected to a full Senate term without a family political connection, died Friday. She was 82. ...more

December 5, 2009

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday denied Gov. Charlie Crist's request to impanel a statewide grand jury to investigate public corruption. ...more

December 1, 2009

Twenty-one years ago, after learning the notorious Medellin drug cartel had sent a hit squad to kill him, Bob Mazur had to assume a new identity and move his family from their Tampa home. ...more

November 27, 2009

Bob Mazur won't be showing up at bookstores to sign copies of his new book. ...more

November 27, 2009

No one ever lost an election or a vote in the Legislature overestimating Mike Fasano's charm. Whatever other skills the veteran lawmaker and current state senator brings to a political showdown, he packs them in a velvet glove. ...more

November 25, 2009

In the Republican primary for Florida agriculture commissioner, U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam of Bartow seems like a natural.But state Sen. Carey Baker of Eustis intends to put up a fight against Putnam in the primary. Claiming the role of the true conservative in the race, he hopes to turn the race into the kind of ideological battle that's becoming common in the Republican Party. ...more

November 23, 2009