“Actually, I asked for the job,” Mackay said Friday after they finished up at Pebble Beach Golf Links in a pairing that included world No. 3 Rory McIlroy. “I asked, and he said OK. I called him up and ...

A four-person Islamorada Village Council couldn’t garner the necessary votes to pick one of seven candidates interested in filling a vacant seat during a special Jan. 30 meeting at the Founders Park ...

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

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

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.

Moody is currently serving as Florida's top law enforcement officer. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that he is replacing Marco Rubio in the Senate with the state's attorney ...

Mackay served as Florida’s governor for less than a month in 1998 after Lawton Chiles’s sudden death. However, his passion for environmentalism and politics was not short-lived.

Bill Cotterell [ News Service of Florida ] Democrats have gone backward ... In that latter year, the late Buddy MacKay lost a U.S. Senate race to Connie Mack, whose campaign slogan was “Hey ...

Last year, a team of scientists discovered that birds seem to ‘buddy up’ with other species at stopover sites during migration, but there was no evidence that different species pair up or ...

The governor also directed flags to half-staff in Florida to honor the late Gov. Buddy MacKay, though that lasts only through this Wednesday. But on Jan. 3, Trump complained on his Truth Social ...