We here on the tip of the dangling peninsula have been pretty lucky for the past two hurricane seasons, and we’ve done well so far in this one. But it looks like there’s a good chance that could change this weekend.

The inside dope I’ve gotten from the hurricane guys is, we can expect to […]

Lest anyone think the state of my birth has slouched toward sophistication, note that tonight marks the opening of Florida’s annual alligator hunting season. The state has issued more than 5,000 gator-hunting permits this year — an all-time record.
Apparently, some folks are real excited about it:
“Everybody’s super-stoked,” said Grayson Padrick, who owns a hunting and […]

This is one of those stories that is so awful it makes you gasp, then bounce up and down, then hit the “send” button trying to tell everybody. So I’m telling you.
The woman John Edwards had his affair with has a bizarre past, including a father who electrocuted horses for the insurance money. I am […]

If anyone had any doubt, Florida is officially Democrat territory. Registration for the state’s Aug. 26 primary, which will decide many local races, recently ended and here are the totals.

Democrat: 4,389,698
Republican: 3,924,081

The significant thing is the new voters are going Dem by about two-and-a-half to one.
Figures released Sunday night by Secretary of State Kurt […]

A full week after it happened, John McCain finally found time to apologize to the black reporter, Stephen Price, who was thrown out of the press area during a McCain stop in Florida. And while the candidate maintained the incident was the fault of the Secret Service, not his campaign, he went out of his […]

For those few who contend the McCain campaign did nothing wrong when it ejected the only black reporter from a group of journalists at a campaign stop in Panama City, Fla., I have bad news. Even the candidate’s handlers disagree.
Following his appearance on Countdown with Keith Olbermann they have offered a big ol’ “whoops” […]

Tallahassee Democrat reporter Stephen Price
The McCain team swears that race was not an issue when a senior reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat was ejected from a campaign rally in Panama City but they can’t supply an alternate explanation.
[Stephen] Price was among at least three other reporters, and the only black reporter, surrounding McCain’s campaign bus […]

Beta Upsilon Chi reject?
The University of Florida is having a hard time keeping out a Christian-only fraternity. The school, recently (and proudly) named America’s top party college by Princeton Review, refused to give Beta Upsilon Chi, also known as Brothers Under Christ or BUCs, status as an official student organization because it requires members to […]

Okeechobee, Fla., is pretty much what you expect — rural and conservative. Oh, and intolerant of gays, too.
Tuesday, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore issued an opinion that the Gay-Straight Alliance of Okeechobee High School can meet on campus like all other noncurricular school groups, and that its case against the School Board of […]