Jeff Miller News Archives

All area codes are 850 unless specified. Destin City Hall All City Council meetings, workshops, executive sessions and CRA Board meetings are held at the City Hall Annex, 4100 Indian Bayou Trail.

President Obama signed his first defense authorization bill into law Wednesday, touting the end of 'wasteful projects' - including F-22 Raptor fighter jets like the one seen above.

It's true, of course, that incumbents usually win elections because they enjoy certain advantages.

Unemployment is high, politicians' job performance ratings are low and there is unrest in the hinterlands.

Unemployment is high, their job performance ratings are low and there's unrest in the hinterlands.

The Massachusetts Board of Real Estate Appraisers said today it will push state lawmakers to require appraisal management companies register with the Mass.

Republican business executive Rory Smith announced Wednesday that he would run for Rhode Island governor and called for spending and tax cuts to help revive a tanking economy that's pushed unemployment to 13 percent.

More than 100 World War II veterans and their guardians are spending the day in Washington, D.C. The vets will visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, as well as other monuments and memorials as part of the fifth Honor Flight from Northwest Florida.

Gov. Charlie Crist, touting his conservative credentials in the face of a hard challenge from the right, accepted the Police Benevolent Association's endorsement Monday in his race for the U.S. Senate.

Multitasking. Attending your city council meeting than driving an unsuspecting citizen to the monthly Orange CountyA A Republican Party Central Committee to listen to former acting sheriff Jack Anderson .

Share + Oct 17, 2009 6:00 am US/Eastern ANDREW GRANT, The News Herald BRUCE, Fla.

A good-government group filed a complaint Wednesday with California's campaign watchdog agency asking it to investigate two lobbyists caught up in an apparent sex scandal involving a former state assemblyman.

The battle for the Democratic gubernatorial race took an Inland turn this month.

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste today honored four Members of Congress from Florida as Taxpayer Heroes in its 2008 Congressional Ratings; Connie Mack IV with 91 percent, Jeff Miller with 94 percent, Cliff Stearns with 92 percent, C.W. Bill Young with 81 percent.

California's attorney general does not plan to investigate a state lawmaker who resigned after he was caught on videotape boasting to a colleague about his extramarital sexual escapades with two female lobbyists.

Waccamaw High School alumnus Kevin Ryan, 21, a Republican, said Monday that he plans to challenge longtime incumbent Vida Miller, D-Pawleys Island, in the race for S.C. House District 108 to represent Georgetown and Charleston counties.

I've covered enough hearings on the Hill to know that they can range in interest from complete snooze-fests to eyebrow-raising soap operas.