In a window at Atwater's Cafeteria, a soul food restaurant on the city's predominantly black south side, there are campaign signs for both of the candidates competing in this week's mayoral race. ...more

November 1, 2009

Rival candidates Bill Foster and Kathleen Ford are both white former city council members who work as lawyers. The similarities end there. ...more

October 30, 2009

They sprout from the ground every election, turning grass plots lining the city's sidewalks, roads and rights of way into a landscape of political pulpits. ...more

February 26, 2009

They sprout from the ground during every election, turning grass plots lining the city's sidewalks, roads and right-of-ways into a landscape of political pulpits. ...more

February 25, 2009

It cannot be described with certainty how Pat Mulieri took the news that she had drawn a serious, well-schooled and demonstrably successful challenger for her presumed bid to return to the county commission in 2010. But the betting here is that it involved brown paper bags. ...more

February 8, 2009

A former school principal who hung campaign signs for Hubert Humphrey in Hernando County in 1968 will lead the local Democratic Party for the next four years. ...more

December 4, 2008

Cy Wingrove handily wins chairmanship. ...more

December 4, 2008

It's over. I don't know for sure, of course. But my guess is the sun is going to come out this morning. ...more

November 5, 2008

In the closest county race, Bob White got his wish Tuesday as Pasco voters re-elected him, making him the first sheriff in decades to clinch a third term. ...more

November 5, 2008

2:29 p.m.: No lines, no waiting. That's the situation at Precinct 570 at Curlew United Methodist Church in Palm Harbor this afternoon. ...more

November 4, 2008