Ashley Lopez: The Senate’s bipartisan Gang of Eight — which includes Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio — filed their long-awaited immigration reform plan today.

Ashley Lopez: This is the closest thing we’ve seen to what immigration reform might look like.

Ashley Lopez: Everyone in Washington, D.C., wants to know what immigration reform looks like to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Ashley Lopez: President Obama is expected to take on immigration reform in his State of the Union address this month, but only after Sen. Marco Rubio takes a stab at it first.

Ashley Lopez: The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., was not much different from last week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa. However, the Democrats did do one thing more consistently than Republicans did — they talked about policy.

Ashley Lopez: A federal judge threw out a challenge by a small coalition of states, including Florida, contesting a provision in the Affordable Care Act requiring insurers to cover contraception as preventative care.

Mc Nelly Torres: After burning through stimulus money, Florida’s public school systems must learn difficult financial lessons.