The U.S. Capitol may be in Washington and the President in Scotland at the moment, but Florida is at the center of American politics, Kimberly Leonard suggests in Political Playbook. Not only has ...

What we're seeing from Trump and DeSantis is the governance of emperors or kings, which our country has long rejected.

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Observer readers comment on a UNC accreditation plan, proposed pesticides law, federal rescission, education, Jeffrey Epstein ...

In recognition of its innovative voter education work, the SPLC awarded a 2-year, $200,000 Field Strengthening grant to Equal ...

With President Trump fearful that congressional Republicans could lose their slim majority in the House of Representatives in ...

Hurricane Ian slammed Lee County with treacherous storm surge, damaging nearly 50,000 homes, killing 150 people and causing a ...

Florida must address the insurance cost challenge. Mitigation is the state’s most proven, cost-effective and underutilized insurance strategy.

A new survey of nearly 800 Florida Republican voters shows Casey DeSantis with a slight lead over Byron Donalds in the race ...

Representatives Maxwell Frost (D-FL) and Sheila Cherfilus McCormick (D-FL) have reintroduced a bill banning the use of radioactive materials in road constructio ...

T-shirts are now being sold to celebrate "Alligator Alcatraz," a Florida attraction where migrants are placed in cages, surrounded by alligators, and publicly taunted in the name of entertainment.

A federal judge in Florida rejected the DOJ’s attempt to unseal grand jury records from the early Epstein investigation, but ...