Candidates have until 5 p.m. today to turn in their most recent campaign contributions to the supervisor of elections office. ...more

July 25, 2008

Candidates have until 5 p.m. today to turn in their most recent campaign contributions to the supervisor of elections office. ...more

July 25, 2008

The public is invited to a candidate forum set for 6 p.m. today at the Agri-Civic Center. ...more

July 14, 2008

SEBRING - The public is invited to a candidate forum set for 6 p.m. Monday, July 14 at the Agri-Civic Center. Contested Highlands County Commission races will be part of the forum, followed by sheriff's office candidates. Highlands Today is sponsoring the forum and it will be moderated by Richard Hensley, editor of the paper. ...more

July 10, 2008

Once again in Florida, a write-in candidate for public office is taking advantage of a damaging loophole in state law that threatens to leave more than 100,000 voters with no voice in an election. ...more

June 30, 2008

Let us stipulate that what John Taylor (whoever he is) did was bad form. His filing - at nearly the last instant - as a write-in candidate in the race for Pasco's District 1 county commission seat, turned what otherwise would have been an early general election race into a traditional closed primary. ...more

June 26, 2008

SEBRING — First-term Republican Highlands County Commissioner Barbara Stewart won a second-four-year term Friday afternoon when nobody filed to run against her for the commission seat from the Avon Park district. Meanwhile, state Rep. Denise Grimsley, R- Lake Placid, will have a potentially formidable opponent in her bid for re-election. At 3:30 p.m. Friday, three and a half hours after the noon deadline for certifying candidates, the Florida Division of Elections certfified a potentially formidable independent candidate who goes straight to the November general election. ...more

June 20, 2008

SEBRING – Zane Thomas, who works in the Highlands County planning department, has filed to run for county commissioner. As an independent, Thomas automatically goes into the November general election for the county commission seat held by Guy Maxcy. Maxcy, a Republican, is running for his fifth consecutive four-year term. Thomas unsuccessfully ran two years ago as a Democrat for the state representative's seat held by Denise Grimsley, R-Lake Placid. ...more

June 18, 2008

SEBRING – Former longtime Highlands County administrator Carl Cool told Highlands Today that he will not run for a county commission seat. Cool said that after talking with many people, he believed that not enough public support was there for a successful race. He had planned to challenge incumbent Barbara Stewart for her seat. ...more

June 16, 2008

Tom Aderhold, candidate for the Hillsborough County Commission District 2 seat, will hold a town hall lunch in Keystone Park today. ...more

June 14, 2008