Senate votes on commuter rail legislation continued shifting like sand on Monday, with time dwindling fast for proponents to shore up support. ...more

December 7, 2009

State Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, and Rep. Kenneth Roberson, R-Port Charlotte, announced plans Monday to introduce a bill to improve the training of 911 operators. ...more

November 17, 2009

Florida Lottery sales are going flat, a legislative audit reported today. ...more

March 12, 2009

State Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, is pushing a change in the law that would allow Sarasota to keep state money while seeking a Major League Baseball team to replace the Cincinnati Reds as a spring training attraction. This is the Reds' final spring training in Sarasota. She said her goal is to "hopefully steal teams from Arizona," where tax breaks have led to six teams leaving Florida since 1998. ...more

March 11, 2009

Sarasota County would get two more years to find a new spring training baseball team to replace the Cincinnati Reds, according to legislation the Florida Senate is expected to take up this afternoon. State Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, said she'll propose an amendment to Senate Bill 1308 that would essentially give Sarasota and Sarasota County two more years to build a new stadium. If they don't find a team by the end of two years, the money would go back to the state. ...more

March 10, 2009

A Sarasota man has been arrested on federal charges that he sent threatening e-mail to people, including a state representative. ...more

February 12, 2009

TALLAHASSEE — Republicans kept control of the Florida Legislature by a comfortable margin Tuesday despite a Democratic tide that swept across much of the rest of the nation. ...more

November 4, 2008

Elections officials in two local counties have mailed absentee ballots to voters with races missing. ...more

October 24, 2008

Elections officials in two local counties have mailed absentee ballots to voters with races missing. ...more

October 23, 2008

Turnout in today's primary is expected to be low even though an unusually large array of local Sarasota offices are on the ballot. ...more

August 26, 2008