Corrine Brown

TALLAHASSEE — Groups that backed the Fair Districts anti-gerrymandering reforms passed last year — the League of Women Voters, Democracia, Common Cause and the Florida Democratic Party — have crafted new congressional and state Senate...

Sunday's column focused on all six of Central Florida's Congressional reps in the U.S. House. My question for them: ”What have you accomplished this year?” No what you wanted to accomplished, wished you'd accomplished or tried to accomplish....

WASHINGTON — VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown today that he soon would visit Orlando’s incoming VA Medical Center, which is expected to miss its planned October opening because of design and construction problems. Brown,...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers ended months of debate Thursday by passing new boundaries for congressional and legislative districts – the first step in a legal shootout that could determine congressional and state government control for...

TALLAHASSEE — We wrote a story today about the changes House lawmakers made to their proposed congressional maps that quietly drew U.S .Rep. Sandy Adams into the district she wanted to run in. The map above shows where the House Redistricting...

Many people are confused about redistricting — and understandably so. Nothing simplifies the story more than the maps themselves. And I am here to tell you that I haven't seen a better set of maps anywhere in Florida than the ones that the Sentinel'...

By Mark K. Matthews, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Sanford city leaders met for an hour on Tuesday with Justice Department officials and they promised to fully cooperate with a newly-launched federal investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin,...

One thing about politics in Florida: They're never boring. This past week, we saw everything from Rick Scott trying to make nice with the media inTallahassee to legislators making off with your money in New Orleans. Throw in debt-ceiling debate and even...

Does the NBA lockout have you blue? Are you longing to cheer for the Magic? Well, fear not. You may soon have the chance to cheer for the Magic against one of their weakest opponents — the Central Florida Taxpayers. It might not be much of a...

In today's Friday Files, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi strikes back against the former investigators who say Bondi's office ousted them for too aggressively going after fraudulent — and deep-pocketed — foreclosure firms in this state....

TALLAHASSEE – Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was being facetious when she described her meandering congressional district stretching from Jacksonville to Gainesville, Sanford and the outskirts of Orlando as the "most popular" in America. But...