Could it be true that the Republican Party is intentionally committing suicide? That's what a lot of folks are saying and some Republicans are crying foul. A culture war is raging within the party, and a lot of good people are being booted. Who benefits? The Democrats, of course, but other consequences also could result. ...more

November 6, 2009

There's a place more magical and elusive than Shangri-la, Narnia and Never-Never Land all rolled into one. You may have heard of this place. You know it as "the next level." ...more

August 31, 2008

The 1st Congressional District, the northernmost in the most culturally Southern state, has given the nation William Faulkner and Elvis Presley, and next Tuesday will have a special congressional election that will test the Republican hope that Barack Obama and his former pastor can be the basis of a Republican strategy to nationalize congressional races to the disadvantage of Democrats. ...more

May 9, 2008

A House task force voted Friday to end an investigation into a disputed 2006 Florida congressional election after extensive testing showed that touch-screen voting machines likely worked properly. ...more

February 9, 2008

Touch-screen voting machines likely performed properly and were not to blame for the large number of undervotes in the District 13 congressional election in 2006, federal investigators said in a draft report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. ...more

February 7, 2008

Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson has hired a public relations firm to teach voters how to use new optical scanning voting machines before they go to the polls in November. ...more

January 29, 2008

Six years ago, Hillsborough County spent $15 million on what were then considered the latest, state-of-the-art voting machines. ...more

January 27, 2008

The Senate moved Friday against the worsening mortgage crisis, voting to make it easier for thousands of homeowners with ballooning interest rates to refinance into federally insured loans. ...more

December 15, 2007

SARASOTA - It is still not over. More than a year after the disputed 13th District Congressional election, government investigators returned to Sarasota County on Monday, looking for clues to why 18,000 voters had no choice recorded in the race between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings. ...more

November 27, 2007

Federal investigators on Monday began preparing for two weeks of testing of Sarasota County voting machines to see whether they were the cause of undervotes in Florida's disputed District 13 congressional election. ...more

November 27, 2007