No one really asked Jeb Bush, but it isn’t much of a surprise he’s not down with medical marijuana. The former governor, along with the Florida Chamber, the Associated Builders and Contractors of Florida and the Florida Trucking Association, is the latest to join the anti-medical marijuana push…
Climate change — the accompanying rising sea levels — is one of the biggest issues facing Florida’s future. Yet, Governor Rick Scott has done very little to address it. Well, he’s finally decided to at least listen. His office announced today that he’ll meet with climate change scientists later this…
Despite running against incumbent Gov. Rick Scott in the Republican primary, Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder hasn’t made many headlines. Scott’s win is nearly guaranteed. Yet, Cuevas-Neunder has a strong message that will surely resonate with Florida’s Latina moms. She wants to smack Scott (and Charlie Crist) with her chancleta…
The Florida Medical Association, which represents about 20,000 physicians in the state of Florida, has come out strongly against a proposed amendment that would legalize medical marijuana in the state. Among the group’s concerns are that medical professionals without proper training could end up handling medical marijuana. We hate to…
Absentee ballots have been sent out for this year’s primary, which means it’s officially election season in Miami-Dade. Of course, every election season here ends up with someone getting busted for voter fraud. Well, the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association is at least hoping to make someone a little richer off…
Anyone unfortunate enough to be a political campaign’s mailing list knows how weird the e-mail subject lines can be. Just check out Nancy Pelosi’s latest string of really depressing subject lines as one example. Yet, the subject line of an e-mail we got from the Charlie Crist campaign last night…
A lack of enthusiasm from rank-and-file Democrats over former Republican Charlie Crist’s gubernatorial campaign may be taking its toll in reason polls. So perhaps it’s not a surprise that Crist has unveiled a list of liberal-pleasing first day promises he hopes to enact upon inauguration. These are steps Crist would…
For a guy whose artistic wheelhouse consists almost solely of gangster fantasy, Rick Ross seems to have a more sensible take on gun laws than some NRA fanatics. In a particularly head-scratching string of protests, some guns rights activists have taken to carrying around loaded semiautomatic riffles while doing things…
On Friday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a controversial Florida law that bans doctors from asking patients if they have guns in their homes. Following the decision, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a decision that pretty much encouraged Florida pediatricians to keep breaking the so called “docs…
Trying to get Floridians to all agree on something is damn near impossible, so the poll number for medical marijuana are impressive. A new Quinnipiac poll shows that about 9 out of every 10 Floridians supports legalizing medical marijuana, while a majority now also supports decriminalizing possession of small amounts…
Curt Clawson is Florida’s newest congressman. In fact, it’s his one-month anniversary on the job after winning the seat vacated by Trey “Cocaine Congressman” Radel. He positioned himself heavily in the campaign as an “outsider,” and, well, yesterday he certainly proved that he’s clueless to the inner workings and decorum…
In the late 1940s and ’50s there was no bigger American media star than Arthur Godfrey, who had become known and loved for his intimate, folksy radio news personality and went on to host programs like the wildly popular daily CBS variety show Arthur Godfrey Time. Beginning in 1953 Godfrey…
Who the hell is Adrian Wyllie? Well, he’s a military vet, an IT consultant and the host of a libertarian radio talk show in Pinellas County. He also might just be Charlie Crist’s worst nightmare. That’s because Wyllie is running for Florida governor on the Libertarian ticket and a new…
Daily Show alum John Oliver’s new HBO show Last Week Tonight is only on its 11th episode, but obviously a comedy program poking fun at politics and the news can only go so long until it features a few Rick Scott jokes. On Sunday’s episode, Oliver dug into America’s prison…
One morning in the summer of 2008, just before the Beijing Olympics were set to kick off, Juan Zapata, then a republican Florida state representative, found himself having breakfast with Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the United States. The breakfast delegation was talking business, and someone floated the idea…
Charlie Crist hasn’t even won the Democratic primary yet, but he’s already picked his general election running mate. Crist tapped Annette Taddeo-Goldstein, a Miami businesswoman who has made a few unsuccessful runs at office before and now is the chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democrats and vice chair of the state…
When LeBron James announced he’s heading back to Cleveland, most high-profile Floridians responded with understanding and gratitude for what he accomplished here. Gov. Rick Scott, of all people, was one of the lone exceptions. In a cheap attack that’s as insulting to Floridians’ intelligence as it is completely idiotic, his…
What interesting timing. Just hours after LeBron James announced he was heading back home to Cleveland, allegedly crooked politician David Rivera had an announcement of his own. Rivera suspended his quixotic campaign to regain his seat in the U.S. House that he lost two years ago amidst scandal, and announced…
“Gerrymandering” is a big, strange word, but in Florida it describes a simple enough problem: The state’s legislative districts are so artificially drawn that one of the nation’s most purple electorates has a lockstep Republican state house that will never face a serious challenge. Four years ago, voters backed change…
David Rivera is a free man and running for his old congressional seat that he lost to Democrat Joe Garcia in the last election cycle. Justin Lamar Sternad, the man many suspect Rivera used as a ringer in the Democratic primary against Garcia, will spend the next seven months behind…
The photo is reminiscent of a poster for The Sopranos. Three men dressed in natty suits with slicked-back hair saunter down a dimly lit, brick-paved alley. They leave little room to pass. It seems like they are intentionally blocking someone’s path. The pretty boy on the left scrunches his face…
Florida’s first openly gay legislator will return to Tallahassee next year… because his GOP opponent’s filing fee check bounced. So much for Republican fiscal responsibility. David Richardson, who represents a district that includes parts of Miami Beach and the City of Miami, was elected to the house in 2012 as…
