John McCain's embrace from the Republican establishment, once hard to imagine, is nearly complete. ...more

February 16, 2008

City Councilman Charlie Miranda recounts working one day as a steward at Tampa Bay Downs, the horse racing track once partially owned by George Steinbrenner. ...more

February 6, 2008

Florida's decision to move up its presidential primary helped to give Republicans a clearer front-runner headed into next week's Super Tuesday contests. ...more

January 31, 2008

"A slam dunk" is how community advocate Liz Gutierrez described the Hillsborough Planning Commission's overwhelming approval of the Greater Palm River Community Plan on Jan. 14. ...more

January 21, 2008

In Jim Gulledge's letter in the Dec. 27 Highlands Today, he makes statements that are not true. When Jim suggested that Oprah Winfrey endorsed Barack Obama because he is black says more about Jim than Oprah. Using that logic, Chuck Norris's endorsement of Mike Huckabee is because Mike is white. Someone took a picture of Barack Obama standing without his hand over his heart. This photo is one out of many hundreds (maybe thousands) of pictures taken of him on the campaign trail. When he was asked about it, he said he normally does salute the flag and he does not recall and is not sure why this one time he did not. Jim, with all events where the national anthem is played, that he has attended, and with all who hate Democrats out there, they only found one situation, give me a break. ...more

December 28, 2007

For Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani, Florida looms larger and larger as a crucial steppingstone on his path to winning the nomination. ...more

November 11, 2007

President Jalal Talabani of Iraq has criticized Syria for supporting Turkey's threat to carry out military attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. ...more

October 21, 2007

Sixteen years ago, Land O' Lakes lawyer Tim Hayes was the top choice of a committee searching for a county attorney, but he didn't get the county commission's endorsement. ...more

October 17, 2007