Florida Politics Information Directory

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They say everyone's a critic, but it'll be interesting to see how Florida's Republicans figure out which films will be 'family friendly' enough to qua.

The "chair" of Space Florida Kottkamp has skipped meetings to attend fundraisers for his own feeble campaign because Kottkamp puts his political future above the needs of the thousands of space contractors who are losing their jobs. ...

A bill to ban the sale and trade of invasive reptiles like the Burmese python is gaining ground in the Florida Legislature, hisses aside. The week before, when the bill was presented to a different House committee, members noted their ... In a year when cost is key, proposals like the python bill — with no tax dollars attached but plenty of political juice — become exceedingly popular among legislators. "It's a good year for these kinds of bills," said Janet Bowman of the ...

David Duprey FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 file photo shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. One is a former Democratic freshman who was little known outside his Corning-Olean ...

When President Obama announced last August that he would address American schoolchildren in a nationwide televised speech, the Right went bananas. August, of course, was the height of the health-care controversy, and conservative leaders and media ...

Republicans want to tap the energy and passion of its members, who have breathed new life into conservative politics. But a warm Republican ... the recent governor’s race in his home state and in the Florida Senate race where the renegade candidate ...

Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000 — as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her wedding. The unsuspecting rural Michigan woman has one out-of-work late-night talk ...

... districts bigger than DC that don't have the regular attention of the president of the American Federation of Teachers and routine glossy newsweekly stories: Knox County Schools, TN; Granite School District, UT; Polk County Public Schools, FL.

What would the elderly ladies of South Florida have been without the delightfully naïve ... Mouth Perhaps White’s “catty” act isn’t such an act: In November 2008, while talking politics with the Late Late Show ’s Craig Ferguson, White ...

WASHINGTON - One is a former Democratic freshman little known outside his Corning-Olean-Pittsford, N.Y., district. The other, a 20-term Democratic kingpin from Harlem, is widely known to New Yorkers and anyone following tax legislation. But now ...

WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader John Boehner said Thursday he wants the ethics panel probe of former Rep. Eric Massa reopened to find out what Democratic leaders and their staff knew about the allegations. The Ohio Republican said there are many ...

Both the media and many high profile politicos still seem to be flailing around trying to find some way to label, quantify and pigeonhole the myriad tea party groups which are springing up all around the country. Even Karl Rove, during a stop to ...

WASHINGTON - One is a former Democratic freshman little known outside his Corning-Olean-Pittsford, N.Y., district. The other, a 20-term Democratic kingpin from Harlem, is widely known to New Yorkers and anyone following tax legislation. But now ...