Republican legislators ignored proof of success once again and passed a law limiting how much communities can lower the effects of algae blooms and red tide.

Better ask now before the legislature makes even asking against the law.

A Pensacola man once known as Mr. History heading the Klan in that part of Florida in the early part of the last century. Guess who seemingly did not exist according to his telling of the past.

They insist they have their own bad ideas.

The county board is considering taking over book procurement of public libraries because as commissioner Vanessa Baugh says there in just not enough oversight and so forth.

Ron DeSantis with the help of his friends at the right-wing not-thinking-very-much tank the Claremont Institute has given his blessing to a man who believes feminism is dire threat to the nation, and that is one of his more rational beliefs.

Apparently, it isn't about restricting speech, it is about which speech.

For some folks any whisper of imposing safety on the populus is an Unamerican power grab. Where were these guys when it was decided that drinking and driving, smoking cigarettes and not wearing seatbelts were bad ideas?

Unfortunately, the Governor and his medical major domo are targeting the wrong drug.

So now not only was rigging the system to benefit white people okay: any effort to fix the damage is prejudice.

How the court rules on a North Carolina gerrymandering case could have dangerous nationwide implications.

Trying to get the voted needed for the House speakership may push the Republican to reach out to Democrats.

But will the dangerous undemocratic precedents he set remain?

No masks, no vaccine mandates might have helped some businesses or limited the inconvenience to the most selfish among us, but it was apparently at the cost a lot of seniors' lives. Thank you, Gov. DeSantis for keeping us free!

Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate recovering from a stroke he suffered in May was not as slick as his debate stage opponent. Instead of judging him on that glimpse, voters need to consider the full measure of the man.

Election integrity has nothing to do with the mission of the election police who might as well wear the white robes of their Jim Crow era predecessors when they intimidate Black voters.

Hypocrisy, scandal, lame takes on everything are not disqualifying if you are a proven sycophant. Not knowing is kind of a plus for people who only need you to do as you are told.

The Governor of our fair state has come up with a threat more dangerous than weather -- a thing he calls, "the national regime media" who he claims are rooting for the worst to happen to the state and manipulating the news to fit their agenda. Once again, I ask, really?

DeSantis' election police force are adept at rounding up the usual suspects; those that the state set up for arrest. Real election criminals are tougher to get, but then they are letting the right ones vote.

DeSantis and is crew are giving a whole new meaning to being a contrarian opposing any and all proven ways to solve any problem. Now investing in funds that reward companies for being for cutting fossil fuel use, supporting women's healthcare, and promoting voting rights is just not right.

Considering the "culture war" hot button issues, it most likely will start at something as innocuous as a drag show or maybe even a school committee meeting

Supervisors of Elections across the state are bracing for the potential chaos a little known section of the so-called voting reform bill that will allow anyone to challenge a signature on a mail-in ballots, even signatures already deemed legit by election workers.

MAGA stalwarts living in Sarasota are making their presence felt by the local party.

But for Republicans horrified at any dilution of their perceived need for a white majority in the country, cutting even the legal immigration needed to keep the wheels of the economy turning is necessary.

Running under the banner of "medical freedom", four self-identified Christian conservatives are trying to take over the board of Sarasota Memorial Hospital. I ask, freedom from what? Being cured.

Republicans who failed to vote to impeach the former president for his role in the January 6 insurrection are pivoting support to VP Pence who was nearly murdered at the behest of his former boss.

A new case coming before the Supreme Court gives them the opportunity to overturn the democracy.

In spite of the need to be sure of a person's guilt, the recent arrest of a 101-year-old concentration camp guard shows eventually the piper is paid.

Tarpon Springs commissioners take offense at the acknowledgement that a traffic safety plan takes into account the different challenges faced by lower income communities compared to more affluent ones

If a recent move by a New Mexico county is any indication, the counting of ballots and accepting results without pointless and unsubstantiated allegations of fraud will be a miracle this year.

The latest way purveyor of dis and mis information are trying to sneak their evil content into your news feed is by masquerading as a local newspaper.

Then came Jack Welch who taught the business world nothing mattered more than profit.

Power and more of it is the main objection of right-wing so-called conservatives who are taking advice on how to dismantle a democracy from Hungarian authoritarian Viktor Orban.

Early sign show the Orange menace of Palm Beach may not be the legendary kingmaker he is in his own mind.

No the best choice of names considering the now loaded meaning of the word "disinformation" but not really a First Amendment issue no matter what some may say.

Reasons why particular math textbooks have been banned are sketchy at best.

Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, the question is what will he do with it.

The Governor and his education department claim about half the math textbooks submitted to Florida schools contain indoctrinating elements of critical race theory, but they have yet to point one out.

Assuming gay people are pedophile has long been debunked, but according to the governor's anyone opposing "don't say gay" must want to legalize grooming children to be gay or insinuate worse.

Try as they might, Senators Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham were unable to prompt a Brett Kavanaugh melt down from Jackson who was clearly the adult in the room.

Board of education nominee once suggested giving elementary school students history books written by Rush Limbaugh. I am sure he offered and balanced and true view of our past -- not!

If Republican are so concerned about election integrity why don't they just ask their constituency to stop trying to cheat.

Ginni Thomas, wife SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, expanded her advocacy of so-called conservative position, to actively lobbying former White House. But do her activities taint the claim of impartiality by her husband?

They claim efforts to regulate classroom goings-on in public schools is about parent's rights, but frrom 30,000 ft. the long game seems to be more nefarious.

Governor Ron DeSantis and Republicans controlling the legislature have a strange take on what is really the problem these days.

Hard to argue than there are more white people than Black women in the country. Is that really why it has taken this long for someone to consider them for the Supreme Court? Look again, Ted.

Not really Eric. Hypnosis is more likely behind people disregarding their health and survivability by not getting the shot.

But not everyone knows how many lawmakers through 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries had at one time in their lives owned another human being. It goes a long way to explaining the genesis of systemic racism.