It was no tempest in a teapot this week when a Pensacola judge stirred the national debate about the federal health care law by ruling that it was not only unconstitutional to require people to buy insurance, but that the entire health care law violates the nation’s founding document.

Four sitting Florida Public Service commissioners whose nominations were pulled back this week by Gov. Rick Scott can continue to serve through the legislative session and beyond, as can 164 other appointments that were withdrawn.

As the swordfish in the governor's kitchen broiled this week, the press corps stewed, and then was left out and got cold.

Rick Scott dropped the "elect" from his title this week, becoming the 45th governor of Florida and immediately getting to work, as he promised to do during his campaign – repeatedly.

Newly inaugurated Gov. Rick Scott has not yet signaled whether he will get on board with a high-speed rail connecting Tampa and Orlando, but the Senate president says he won’t go along for the ride.

Gov.-elect Rick Scott picked the director of a Jacksonville shipyard on Monday to run his Department of Environmental Protection, turning to an unconventional source for the state’s top natural resources watchdog.

Four years ago, Alex Sink became the first Florida chief financial officer to win a contested election in her first bid for elected office.

Now, she is looking back at a term that saw her emerge as the face of a Florida Democratic Party hungry for new voices, but fall short in her bid to win the Governor’s Mansion for the party, which has been in the wilderness there since 1999.

A supporter of Gov.-elect Rick Scott, who is so on the outs with legislative leaders that speculation has mounted she might end up in his administration, may hold the key to the future of a high-speed rail connecting Tampa and Orlando.