Maddox dances his way back onto ballot

Lights flashing, bass pumping, Democratic candidate Scott Maddox pumped up the party from the deejay's perch behind the dance floor.

Vouchers a dirty word to Democrats

Question: When is a voucher not a voucher?

Answer: When you're a Democratic candidate for attorney general and you voted for one of the education legacies of Republican Gov. Jeb Bush.

New ethics chief knows all about the subject

Let me get this straight.

The Florida Legislature, reeling from two separate influence-peddling scandals, has an opening on an ethics and elections committee. That's the panel that's supposed to help keep elected officials and candidates in line. And the guy picked to be the chairman is a lobbyist-turned-legislator-turned- lobbyist-turned-legislator who has gotten in trouble twice for violating -- wait for it -- Florida's ethics and elections laws?

Conservatives falling for Marco Rubio

Barack Obama is in the White House. Healthcare reform that's been compared to socialism is on the horizon. Climate change legislation could be next.

Broward leaders' arrests were a long time coming

In one fell swoop, the feds this week accomplished what the voters of Broward County had not, knocking down two ethically challenged yet durable elected officials.

Senate run, wife drawing Gov. Charlie Crist closer to South Florida

Get this governor season tickets for the Dolphins. Though his desk is in Tallahassee, Charlie Crist is in South Florida more than Joe Lieberman was during the never-ending 2000 presidential campaign.

Exactly what has gotten into Jim Greer?

What's the deal with Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer?

Gov. Charlie Crist's handpicked party chief, who once vowed to replace ``divisive partisan rhetoric with common-sense solutions'' has gone off the grid.

Just what will the president tell the kids?

t's Tuesday, and President Barack Obama is moments away from addressing the nation's schoolchildren. Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer has objected to Obama's ``use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda.''

New senator learned lessons in Broward

Eight years ago, the young chairman of the Broward Republican Party appealed to his cohorts to stay out of a divisive petition drive to overturn the county's gay rights law. ``GOP UNITY'' read the banner he unfurled as he walked through a hushed crowd, arguing that the petition would distract from the party's true goal -- electing Republicans.

Florida's still head over heels for Charlie Crist

oody Allen said 80 percent of success is showing up. He hadn't met Gov. Charlie Crist.

Crist passed on an offer to stand next to his hard-charging rivals for the U.S. Senate at an Orlando forum sponsored by the Florida Association of Realtors, preferring to appear at the group's breakfast in his official capacity as governor. He also canceled an appearance at Friday's meeting of the Latin Builders Association (LBA), leaving the influential Miami group in the lurch with two weeks notice.

More park closings would have impact

One of the biggest perks of living in South Florida is the abundance of public parks that serve as year-round tropical havens from gridlock, suburban sprawl and the daily grind of life.