Former Congressman Kendrick Meek recalls his entry into Florida politics when, as the first Black captain in the Florida ...

Columnist Steve Bousquet attended the large outpouring of affection on Wednesday in Ocala for former Gov. Buddy MacKay, who recently died at the age of 91.

Mackay served as Florida’s governor for less than a month in 1998 after Lawton Chiles’s sudden death. However, his passion ...

Bill Cotterell is a retired Capitol reporter for United Press International and the Tallahassee Democrat. He can be reached ...

Since the 2024 elections, party leaders at the state and national levels have been saying they learned hard lessons from the ...

FBI agents shot at the home on January 16, 1935 for four hours when Ma Barker and her son Fred refused to surrender.

In that latter year, the late Buddy MacKay lost a U.S. Senate race to Connie Mack, whose campaign slogan was “Hey, Buddy, you’re a liberal.” That was an unfair simplification, but who said ...