U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis coasted to victory and a second term Tuesday, defeating Democratic challenger Bill Mitchell, a 61-year-old employment lawyer from Carrollwood. ...more

November 5, 2008

Waiting until polls closed Tuesday to announce results, nearly 70 percent of Hillsborough County schoolchildren voted to elect Democrat Barack Obama president in last week's mock election. ...more

November 5, 2008

U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis coasted to victory and a second term Tuesday, defeating Democratic challenger Bill Mitchell, a 61-year-old employment lawyer from Carrollwood. ...more

November 4, 2008

TAMPA - Waiting until polls closed today to announce results, nearly 70 percent of Hillsborough County schoolchildren voted to elect Democrat Barack Obama president in last week's mock election. ...more

November 4, 2008

Democrats lined up for a chance to unseat U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis. Now the freshman Republican faces Democratic primary winner Bill Mitchell, a 61-year-old employment lawyer with an office in downtown Tampa and a home in Carrollwood. ...more

October 19, 2008

Here in the busy heart of his hometown, John Dicks couldn't find a stranger if he tried. Stranger? Heck. Dicks would be hard pressed to find anyone who begrudged him anything besides his dauntless attachment to the Florida Gators. ...more

October 5, 2008

By now most of us have become so inured to the jibber-jabber of campaign advertising that if we turned on the television and heard a commercial accusing a candidate of being a lying, conniving, race-baiting, drug-dealing, sex-crazed Satanist, most of us would probably idly shrug and say: "That's nice. Would you pass the salt, Bertha?" ...more

September 18, 2008

John Dicks, who finished second in last month's heated Democratic primary for the 9th Congressional District, has filed a lawsuit accusing the winner of libelous campaign advertisements. ...more

September 17, 2008

John Dicks, who finished second in a heated Democratic primary for the 9th Congressional District in August, has filed a lawsuit accusing the winner of libelous campaign advertisements. ...more

September 16, 2008

The breathless electorate of Florida's 9th Congressional District can rest easy tonight. Anita de Palma has bestowed her unequivocal endorsement on Bill Mitchell, her former rival and, as of Tuesday, the Democrats' nominee to take on incumbent Gus Bilirakis. ...more

August 31, 2008