EDITOR'S NOTE: Early voting runs through Nov. 1 for the Nov. 4 general election. As a service to voters, we will publish this highlights box periodically until Election Day. To read the complete analyses, check out the Tribune's opinion page on tbo.com. ...more

October 26, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: Early voting runs through Nov. 1 for the Nov. 4 general election. As a service to voters, we will publish this highlights box periodically until Election Day. To read the complete analyses, check out the Tribune's opinion page on tbo.com. ...more

October 23, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: Early voting runs through Nov. 1 for the Nov. 4 general election. As a service to voters, we will publish this highlights box periodically until Election Day. To read the complete analyses, check out the Tribune's opinion page on tbo.com. ...more

October 20, 2008

Democrats lined up for a chance to unseat U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis. Now the freshman Republican faces Democratic primary winner Bill Mitchell, a 61-year-old employment lawyer with an office in downtown Tampa and a home in Carrollwood. ...more

October 19, 2008

If you are one of the thousands of Hillsborough County voters who get to the end of their ballots this election and are stopped in your tracks at the Soil and Water Conservation District race, you are not alone. This easily is the most obscure race on the ballot, and the candidates the most unfamiliar. ...more

October 18, 2008

Bill Bunting has decided destruction of Republican campaign signs has gone too far. Bunting, chairman of the Pasco County Republican Executive Committee, said the local party is offering a $1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for defacing signs promoting presidential candidate John McCain, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis or any other Republican candidate. The reward also can be collected for fingering vandals who target Republican homes. Bunting reported that someone spray painted Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's name, along with a vulgarity, on the Port Richey house of a McCain supporter. Pasco Democrats don't plan to offer any rewards, but they also are having a problem, though not with graffiti on houses. ...more

October 16, 2008

With Congress facing its lowest approval rating in memory, the mantra in Washington is that change is coming to Capitol Hill, and our west-central Florida representatives know it. ...more

October 16, 2008

The days separating us from this cycle's The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes have dwindled to a precious handful. Accordingly, opinions have begun to congeal as voters have grown serious. ...more

October 10, 2008

Here in the busy heart of his hometown, John Dicks couldn't find a stranger if he tried. Stranger? Heck. Dicks would be hard pressed to find anyone who begrudged him anything besides his dauntless attachment to the Florida Gators. ...more

October 5, 2008

We all know about Amber Alert, the statewide system that alerts the public to missing children by putting descriptions on electronic billboards along highways. ...more

September 30, 2008