Connie Mack News

DAVID ALBERS/STAFF - Former state Rep. Paige Kreegel, candidate Michael Dreikorn, candidate Curt Clawson and State Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, left to right, participate in a public forum for candidates of special election for the recently vacated District 19 congressional seat at the Caloosa Waterfront Pier on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Fort Myers.

Rejoicea .primary season is officially here! Texas is holding the first elections of 2014 tonight, with most polls in the Lone Star State closing at 8 p.m. ET and in the El Paso area at 9 p.m. ET.

Corey Perrine/Staff Connie Mack IV, left, and Trey Radel joke with one another while supporting each other's platform Monday, July 16, 2012 at Muni Designs in Fort Myers, Fla.

Georgia's version of the "Turn Away the Gays" laws that right-wing legislators are attempting to pass in multiple states would allow businesses to flout nondiscrimination laws.

The leaders of the Big Government Republican establishment are beginning to get desperate.

From Trecker's blog, The Residents' Corner, at naplesnews.com/blogs. A retired chemist, Trecker serves on a number of local boards.

As thousands of coastal residents worry about higher flood-insurance rates, an effort to attract more private insurers to offer flood coverage in Florida may go back to the start of the Senate review process.