A government entity is the largest employer in 51 of the state's 67 counties, and in every county in Florida government is at least one of the top five largest employers, Florida TaxWatch reported in a study out Tuesday. Read more »

New ads to run in four of the same five general election swing states are a sign of the new world of campaign finance, where so-called super political action committees have wide leeway to spend as much as they want to help or hurt candidates. Read more »

With an early legislative session speeding up action in the Capitol, at least three lobbying firms collected more than $1 million in fees during the first three months of the year, according to new reports. Read more »

The Orlando Sentinel has reported that Connie Mack IV's water bills raise questions about his residency in Florida, which has become an issue in his GOP U.S. Senate primary campaign. And his opponent, George LeMieux, is using the story to take more shots at Mack. Read more »

A look at four questions in the wake of the resignation of Gov. Rick Scott’s chief of staff Steve MacNamara, who will step down on July 1, including whether it signals a return to the governor's Tea Party roots. Read more »

President Barack Obama crisscrossed Manhattan on Monday for a series of targeted appeals to a trio of key election-year constituencies: women, young people, and gay and lesbian supporters. Read more »

In an e-mail to supporters, Ron Paul said he would no longer actively campaign in states that have not yet held Republican presidential primaries. To do so, he said, “would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.”Read more »

Steve MacNamara found himself defending his work for both the governor and while he was in the Senate. Read more »

Sarasota and Manatee counties have been reliably Republican in presidential elections for decades when it comes to the ballot box. But financially, President Barack Obama is showing that is no ... Read more »

Congress is producing little this election year that will become law, yet both parties are churning out bills designed to make the other side look bad. Read more »

President Barack Obama delighted his liberal base by coming down on the side of gay marriage, but he cheered the opposition, too. Read more »

Everybody, it seems, is talking about women in this campaign — what they should do, how they should act, who they should be in society. Read more »

Mitt Romney is steering clear of the fight over gay marriage and talking about his commitments to his own family in a commencement address at a conservative Christian university. Read more »

Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party's national convention in Charlotte. Read more »

Florida, a state long tied to its image as a mecca for retirees, will grow older over the next few decades with serious implications for its policies. Those trends were ... Read more »