Legislative leadership, particularly on the Senate side, didn’t get a pass from a Tallahassee group that annually highlights pork-barrel spending in the state budget, reports Jim Turner of the News Service of Florida. Yes, Florida TaxWatch’s annual...

The notion that House Speaker Will Weatherford is seen as an important part of the future of the Republican Party’s success in Florida isn’t news. But his name is starting to turn up in national stories about the GOP...

When asked about a $14 million line item for a college building in his home district that started out at $300,000, Senate President Don Gaetz, responded “I would expect it doesn’t hurt that the senator from Northwest...

On his blog, The Fine Print, ace reporter Gary Fineout closes the loop from two months ago, answering the 5 biggest questions going into the 2013 session. Fineout’s most interesting answer may be his response to whether this was...

The Sox and Yankees are playing on Friday, May 31st, and the Florida House of Representatives leadership invites you to join them at Yankee Stadium for the game for a fundraiser benefiting House Victory. House Speaker Will...

Before the legislative session began, with Gov. Rick Scott’s approval ratings refusing to budge from their relatively low position and his time to change his standing with the public fleeting, the governor took something of a gambit,...

The three highest-profile figures involved in the 2013 legislative session saw their top priorities sewn up Wednesday night in a rapid-fire series of events that left a trail of unanswered legal questions and Democrats crying foul. As...

Writing for the Orlando Sentinel, Jason Garcia describes what he considered an “usual, late-night meeting” in which Speaker Will Weatherford engineered a tax break for a California company that had hired Southern Strategies to do its legislative...

Shortly after passing two of their biggest priorities of the legislative session, House Speaker Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz said last week they were confident that Governor Rick Scott would sign off on the bills....