Sen. Larcenia Bullard was just given a "Worst Person in the World" award by MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann for her confusion over the word "husbandry" in a bestiality ban bill.  â€œPeople are taking these animals as their husbands? What’s husbandry?â€� she asked. Some senat...

TALLAHASSEE, AP–Bobby Bowden appealed to the NCAA to include wins from his past before. He may have to do it again. Florida State will appeal the NCAA ruling in an academic fraud case including the vacating of 14 wins, but should the University lose the appeal Bowden will likely try a new tack...

If you don’t get the title, then you haven’t watched enough Seinfeld, and desperately need to (I’ll still say it: Best. Show. Ever.) Anyway…. Geno Hayes, who spent his college career at FSU — where we’ll never be able to tell you how many victories he was a part o...

I know phrases like "four-year probation" and "vacated wins" sounds really bad for Florida State, but the truth is that their punishment is a weak response that doesn't fit the crime. Let's look at what penalties they got from the NCAA: • Public reprimand and censure. Oh no! Your words sting m...

It’s NCAA Penalty day in college football, and who couldn’t be excited about that? The offseason is a wondrous cavalcade of events, isn’t it? This ledge…looks so inviting…so…death-y…. Only the fact that this is Florida State in potential NCAA trouble keeps u...

As members of the Governor's Office of Policy & Budget presented Gov Charlie Crist's proposed budget to legislative spending committees Thursday, plans for federal stimulus money and a recommended merger the state's lead health care agencies drew fire from committee leaders in both H...

Rep. Ron Saunders, a Key West Democrat who also represents part of Miami-Dade County, will be the next House Democratic leader, after winning a pre-session vote Tuesday morning by just two votes. Saunders defeated Rep. Perry Thurston, D-Plantation, in a vote of 23-21, and he will serve from 2010 to ...

Florida's Republican leaders may be in for one of the most difficult sessions of their legislative careers but this weekend they're ready to rock at Universal Studios and the Seminole Tribe's Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando. The weekend-long event is being sponsored by the Republic...

Bismillah! Florida Muslim Capitol Day is scheduled for March 10. And House Republican leader Adam Hasner sees something nefarious afoot. He doesn't quite say what that is in an email he sent to Jewish lobbyists. But the day seems suspect nonetheless to him. So Hasner suggests that Je...

Florida State Legislators (just like some Hillsborough County Commissioners) are working to “streamline� — i.e. deregulate — the development industry. State lawmakers want to make it cheaper & easier for developers to build more subdivisions and strip malls, apparently ignorant of the wi...