A pile of leftover campaign cash is headed for local charities. Nonprofit organizations in the region - including several in Hernando County - stand to gain about $170,000, according to some candidates polled Thursday who didn't have to scrape the bottom of their war chests to get elected. ...more

November 7, 2008

Rep. Rob Schenck easily won a second term in the state House on Tuesday, according to unofficial results. ...more

November 5, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Heather Fiorentino will serve another four years as Pasco County schools superintendent. ...more

November 5, 2008

Pasco County voters returned incumbent County Commissioners Ann Hildebrand and Jack Mariano to their seats on the five-member board Tuesday. ...more

November 5, 2008

I have heard the term "tax" and "spend" used so derogatorily about the Democrats by many Republicans in their campaign spiels that I decided to find out the validity of the usage. That meant a little research into the federal budget about income, spending and related borrowing. After a little digging I wondered, maybe the wrong party was labeled taxers and spenders. Take a look at the results of the following information. What do you think? I quickly found that I could not limit the scope of this examination to the present situation, so I went back 40 years to 1967, it includes four presidents before the current incumbent (G.W. Bush.) These four presidents are equally divided, two from each party with one four year termer and one eight-year-termer. Dollars are in billions and are founded to the nearest Billion. ...more

November 1, 2008

Voters in much of Pinellas County will cast ballots for their representatives in the Florida House of Representatives this November. Five district races are being contested. One features a write-in slot, and in another, a challenger has withdrawn even though her name remains on the ballot. ...more

October 27, 2008

Florida Democrats now have a more than 600,000-person advantage in registered voters over Republicans, nearly double the gap between the two parties' registered voters since the last presidential election. ...more

October 19, 2008

Tampa had the right to force Capt. Marion Lewis to resign from the Tampa Police Department when he ran for mayor in 2007. ...more

September 26, 2008

In the latest in a flurry of lawsuits against U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, another former high-level employee alleges fraudulent practices at one of Buchanan's car dealerships set up to benefit the firm's owners and partners. ...more

September 20, 2008

Accusations she spent too much money on travel didn't stop voters from re-electing Hillsborough County School Board member Susan Valdes to a second term by a comfortable margin. ...more

August 27, 2008