Internet Fills A Gap Regarding " 'Whitey' Lie Is Just The Beginning" (Commentary, June 22): ...more

June 29, 2008

Incumbents in two state House districts representing Central and South Tampa face opposition in their campaigns for reelection. ...more

June 28, 2008

Every politician is a person who can tell you what you want to hear and then do as he pleases when he gets into office. This has been going on since time began, and unless a miracle happens it's going to be the same in this election. ...more

June 27, 2008

Every politician is a person who can tell you what you want to hear and then do as he pleases when he gets into office. This has been going on since time began, and unless a miracle happens it's going to be the same in this election. Sen. Barack Obama says he's for change and has a lot of very young people that will tell you that this is the truth. However, I don't take much stock in 18-20-year-olds who haven't been out of high school long enough to start supporting themselves, let alone think that they have the abilities to run this country. Obama's only experience is in the state Senate and nowhere else that I can see, and it's obvious that the majority of black Americans support him because he is black. The highest percentage of black voters in history have turned out so there is, in my opinion, a race issue here, whether we like it or not. ...more

June 26, 2008

Even as Sen. Barack Obama's supporters were saying the dispute over the Florida and Michigan convention delegates no longer matters, that dispute intensified Thursday with a new lawsuit and threat of a convention floor fight. ...more

May 23, 2008

The specter of shuttered courthouses from Key West to Pensacola was raised Wednesday after local chief judges said they and others were told to furlough key employees to save about $17 million statewide. ...more

February 21, 2008

State legislatures have for years had a habit of increasing "sin taxes" - mostly on liquor and tobacco - to raise revenue. This year will be no different. ...more

February 13, 2008

A West Pasco Special Olympics Pasco County athlete, Rosetta LoBianco, recently returned home from the Special Olympics Florida Athlete Congress, in Tallahassee. ...more

February 9, 2008

An additional trooper should have been patrolling the highways in Polk County when 70 vehicles collided last month on Interstate 4, the Florida Highway Patrol said Wednesday. ...more

February 7, 2008

Perhaps you, too, are curious, as are members of a state Senate select committee, how it is possible after the Florida Legislature voted to lower property insurance rates this year, why is it companies such as Allstate Floridian are still raising the costs for homeowners? ...more

February 7, 2008