Cuban-American voters here remain dominated by an older generation with more extreme views on U.S.-Cuba foreign policy, including support for the U.S. embargo against their communist homeland, according to an exit poll taken during the 2008 election. ...more

March 21, 2009

Hundreds of millions of dollars for Tampa Bay area projects ranging from money to dredge the Port of Tampa to youth-gang prevention and municipal beautification efforts are at stake in a catch-all spending bill the Senate is expected to vote on today. ...more

March 5, 2009

Tampa Port Authority commissioners on Thursday postponed a seemingly inevitable showdown on aggressively marketing Cuban trade after one of them volunteered to "go to Cuba tomorrow" while calling U.S.-Cuba policy "insane." ...more

February 20, 2009

Tampa Port Authority commissioners today postponed a seemingly inevitable showdown on aggressively marketing Cuban trade after one of them volunteered to "go to Cuba tomorrow" while calling U.S.-Cuba policy "insane." ...more

February 19, 2009

Cuba's communist leadership has long cast itself as David standing up to the U.S. Goliath and the crippling force of America's punitive trade and travel embargo. ...more

November 9, 2008

Cuba's communist leadership has long cast itself as David standing up to the U.S. Goliath and the crippling force of America's punitive trade and travel embargo. ...more

November 8, 2008

A reader looking for juicy gossip or insider dope about Florida and Washington politics will come away with something quite different from Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez's soon-to-be released first book, "A Sense Of Belonging." ...more

July 28, 2008

Two decades after Congress established the U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting, lawmakers and experts still can't seem to agree on the program's mission. ...more

June 8, 2008

Whether out of sincere belief in Barack Obama or sheer curiosity to see a historic presidential candidate, Tampa Bay area residents rushed for tickets Monday to a rally now expected to fill the St. Pete Times Forum downtown on Wednesday. ...more

May 20, 2008

President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform" and rejected calls for the easing of U.S. restrictions on the communist island. ...more

May 8, 2008