Two-Party System Regarding "Strip The Party Politics From Supervisor Post" (Our Opinion, Feb. 25): ...more

March 2, 2009

1:43 p.m. Voting at Precinct 913 at the Wimauma Civic Center slowed down a bit after a pre-workday rush hour but picked up again during the lunch hour. More than 400 people had voted by noon. ...more

November 4, 2008

They were found by highway workers, strewn along a quarter-mile stretch of Interstate 4 early Monday: scores of pages with the names, addresses, phone numbers and party affiliations of Hillsborough County voters. ...more

November 4, 2008

Hundreds of thousands of pages of what appear to be voter survey documents were found strewn along a section of Interstate 4 early this morning. The documents were discovered along a quarter-mile stretch of the highway near I-275 and contained names, addresses, phone numbers and party affiliations of Hillsborough County voters. Several empty cardboard boxes were found nearby. ...more

November 3, 2008

Think John McCain will seal the votes of senior citizens simply because they may share the aches and wrinkles of age? Not so fast. ...more

November 2, 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

A local political spokesperson said the reason there are so many people listed as independent voters these days is due to motor vehicle registrations, when people don't know what to put down for party affiliation. That's partially true, but there's something much bigger going on that neither major party seems to grasp. People are tired of the candidates they elect being so out of touch with their needs. During campaigns, these politicians seem all ears on the issues of the day. They talk about the problems, offer multiple-point plans on how to address then. Then, once elected, nothing is improved and special interests always hold much more sway than constituents. It's no wonder so many people are dropping party affiliations and becoming independents. ...more

January 10, 2008

Some are inspired. Some are strategy plotters. Others are downright mad. ...more

January 4, 2008

The Supreme Court returned to work Monday by sidestepping two church-state cases that social conservatives had hoped the justices would use to chart a rightward course. ...more

October 2, 2007