Ready to meet public Thursday. ...more

November 12, 2008

Incoming County Commissioners James Adkins and John Druzbick say Thursday's three-and-a-half-hour orientation meeting will give them plenty of time to meet department heads and get up to speed on current issues. ...more

November 12, 2008

7:38 p.m. Cynthia and Elmo Forde couldn't wait to show up at Allen Temple AME Church in Ybor City and cast their votes for Barack Obama. ...more

November 4, 2008

6:30 p.m.: With a half hour to go before polls close, the precincts in south St. Pete still seem to be drawing voters, but sparsely. The lack of lines surprised Cynthia A. Riddell, a lawyer with an office in Sarasota who's registered in south St. Pete. ...more

November 4, 2008

11:25 a.m.: It doesn't pay to be an "S" at precinct 359 in Tampa Palms. As I stand in line waiting for my turn to vote, I watch people whose last names begin with M, H and J dash past me. ...more

November 4, 2008

10 a.m.: One of the newest polling locations in South Shore reported brisk turnout little more than two hours after the polls opened today. "We started off with around 200 voters," said Billie Fox, poll deputy for precinct 933 at the SouthShore Regional Service Center in Ruskin. "Since then we've had more than 350." ...more

November 4, 2008

7:48 a.m.: U.S. Army Sgt. Crosby Lee, 24, had two issues at the booth today at the Jan Platt Regional Library in South Tampa. He didn't bring anything with a signature on it to vote, so he had to vote provisionally, he says. And when they looked him up in the voter records, his address came back incorrectly. ...more

November 4, 2008

7:35 a.m.: Early voting during the lunch hour Friday at the Jan Platt Regional Library in South Tampa took about an hour. But this morning, the line is considerably shorter, and people are popping out of the voting booths in about a half-hour. ...more

November 4, 2008

7:25 a.m.: The polls at the New Mount Zion Baptist Church on Columbus Drive have been open for about a half-hour and about 50 people are patiently waiting in a line that stretches across the front of the church. Vilma Bell, 49, strides out and crosses the street to her car. ...more

November 4, 2008

6:35 a.m.:It's a half-hour before the polls open, and the line outside of Precinct 701 at the Palmetto Club in Fishhawk Ranch stretches more than a block. ...more

November 4, 2008