County commissioners have agreed to change the format of their meetings and shorten public input time. ...more

February 13, 2009

Owing to deadline constraints on certain corners of the dinosaur media, as this is written, procrastinators and traditionalists still are streaming to their designated voting stations. ...more

November 5, 2008

For years we wondered what "meaningful" baseball in September for the Rays would feel like. We had seen it before on television, of course, in all those other cities. It looked exciting, sure, but how could we tell for sure without experiencing the real thing? ...more

September 3, 2008

The new primary and general election system is superb. Why it was not inaugurated long ago is beyond my comprehension. This is the way it works: All states have their presidential primaries the first Tuesday of March, during the presidential election years. All city, county, state and federal elections are held during even years only. Between elections, vacancies are temporarily filled by the highest elected official of the entity. ...more

January 11, 2008