On Tuesday, eight Pinellas legislators were grilled by members of the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club on issues ranging from Medicaid expansion to legislative health insurance costs — and then turned around to rib each other on who...

Greg Beato imagines that Google’s driverless cars will further erode personal privacy: In time, Google will know when you arrive at work each morning, how many times a week you go to Taco Bell, how long you spend at...

The following is a very thorough guest post by Matt Florell of St. Pete Polls. On May 2nd at 2:42 PM this tweet by @ChrisSpencerFL appeared on my Twitter feed and it caught my attention, “Highway Safety...

The passage of a 226 page omnibus transportation, which cleared the Florida Senate unanimously and the House with a vote of 114-1, includes provisions intended to remedy various administrative problems with red-light camera ticketing. Red-light cameras have...

Just out, a Florida Supreme Court decision that police may not confiscate and search an arrested person’s cell phone without a search warrant. In question was a 2008 case in which Cedric Smallwood was arrested for the...

Heading to the Governor’s desk is a long-debated bill that, if signed, will bring Florida the most transparent municipal pension system in the nation. SB 534, sponsored by Senator Jeff Brandes, prohibits the state from bailing out...

A campaign-styled attack mailer is arriving in the mailboxes of voters in Senator Jeff Brandes’ legislative district, courtesy of the Florida Education Association. The issue at hand is SB 862, a bill that would allow parents to petition...

It’s a looonnnggg time until Election Day in 2014. A long time. The game is still only in the first or second inning. That’s how long there is until Election Day.  But that doesn’t mean score isn’t...

The conventional wisdom holds that the only possibly competitive State Senate seat up for grabs in 2014 will in District 22, which is currently occupied by freshman Senator Jeff Brandes. The battleground district has gone back and...

As the House and Senate consider changing Florida’s campaign-finance laws this spring, they are debating whether to increase a longstanding $500 cap on contributions to political candidates. But new records show that many incumbents are doing just...