Personal Weapon Control

Every gun massacre is horrible, but this seems worst of all. If the preliminary reports are true, a gunman (or perhaps gunmen?) might have massacred an entire kindergarten class at an elementary school in Connecticut. Twenty children, six adults and......

I'm all for academic freedom and freedom of speech, but there's a not-so-fine line between critical thinking and crackpot lunacy. Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy has clearly stepped over it. Tracy's doubts about the Sandy Hook Elementary...

Americans have seen gun massacres at schools, universities, malls, restaurants, clubs, workplaces, political events and even churches. Now we add a movie multiplex to the sad and twisted list. As authorities sort out the details and motivation behind...

I got a lot of feedback on my Sunday column/letter to the NRA, but in the spirit of the season I figured I'd wait until after the holidays to fire back. At the end of the column, I rhetorically asked,......

Palm Beach County government and business leaders converge on Tallahassee Wednesday for a day-long lobbying blitz aimed at the Florida Legislature. Timed with the beginning of the legislative session, the lobbying trip seeks to push for local issues...

Firefighters and the governor are adding some extra attention to Palm Beach County???s annual lobbying push in Tallahassee. Palm Beach County government and business leaders have converged on Tallahassee today for a lobbying swing intended draw the...

The Palm Beach County Commission this week joined the chorus of support for a prescription drug registry opposed by new Gov. Rick Scott. The County Commission Tuesday approved a resolution calling for the Florida Legislature to keep alive the registry.......

A legal shootout over gun control could be coming between the Palm Beach County Commission and Florida Legislature. The County Commission is expected to decide Tuesday whether to sue the Legislature to try to overturn a new state law that......

Palm Beach County plans to keep its gun-buying waiting period, despite a new state law that scrapped most local firearms regulations. While the state has a three-day waiting period to buy handguns, Palm Beach County imposes a 5-day waiting period......

Guns are one area where the Florida Legislature???s move to allow more local control of issues long regulated by the state doesn???t apply. While preaching a return to more local government control over growth management and other regulatory issues, the.....

Palm Beach County commissioners Tuesday begrudgingly started doing away with more county gun regulations, even as they agreed to explore challenging the state???s crackdown on local firearms laws. The Florida Legislature has long maintained that it...

Palm Beach County Tuesday officially wiped its local gun laws off the books to comply with a state law pushed by the National Rifle Association. The Florida Legislature long held that only the state, not cities and counties, had the......