CLEARWATER -- Pinellas County Clerk of Court Ken Burke, Tax Collector Diane Nelson and County Commissioner Ken Welch faced no challengers as today's deadline passed at noon in the weeklong candidate qualifying period. ...more

June 20, 2008

There's nothing like a good scandal to spice up the campaign season. And This Space enjoys a good scandal as much as the next soulless muckraker. ...more

May 11, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers increasingly think that, after a series of losses, she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries March 4, and she has begun reassuring anxious donors and superdelegates that the nomination is not slipping away from her, aides said Monday. ...more

February 12, 2008