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  • One month into the 2016 legislative session in Tallahassee, and we’ve already seen our share of controversial legislative proposals. So far, there’s been a proposal to make legal abortion a felony, a proposal to open the door to fracking interests and a proposal to prevent counties from banning polystyrene products. Now the Legislature is also considering bills that could undermine transparency in government.
  • Some homeless men and women in Daytona Beach say a homeless advocate defrauded them of their money. The Daytona Beach Police Department is investigating the claims.
  • Car-sharing is back in Orlando. Boston-based company Zipcar is making its official debut today by opening spaces at six locations downtown. Drivers will also be able to get their hands on a set of wheels in Disney Springs and Winter Park.
  • Clinton beat Bernie Sanders by a razor-thin margin Monday night in Iowa. Some have attributed her win to an improbable lucky streak of coin tosses. Yes, coin tosses. But that's not the whole story.
  • Martel's new book, The High Mountains of Portugal, shares some themes with his 2001 novel, Life of Pi: Both feature animals (in this case, a chimpanzee) and both struggle with questions of faith.
  • Paul Goldberg's debut novel is an ambitious historical fantasy about Stalin's 1953 plan to purge Jews from the Soviet Union. Critic Maureen Corrigan says The Yid is a wildly inventive "what if" story.
  • CNN's Peter Bergen describes how the Internet and social media have been used to radicalize and recruit Americans to jihad — and how some new jihadists then use those same tools to draw in others.
  • Six new cases of travel-related Zika were confirmed this week in Florida.
  • Today stands out in the national spotlight for two reasons – first, we have the Iowa caucus results…and second, it’s Groundhog Day! 90.7’s economic analyst Hank Fishkind says Groundhog Day can teach us a few things about how to view the economics of early primary results.
  • Voters in Iowa caucused last night and now the candidates are setting their sights on New Hampshire. And, the deadline to collect enough signatures to get a constitutional amendment on the Florida ballot for 2016 just passed. We’ll dig into two big issues facing Floridians in November: medical marijuana and solar power.
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