When DeeAnn Athan received a new voter registration card at her downtown law office a few weeks ago, she figured it must be a mistake. ...more

October 11, 2008

It's about four weeks to Nov. 4 but Blanca Macias of Avon Park doesn't know yet if John McCain or Barack Obama is going to get her vote. ...more

October 7, 2008

Charles Hobbs is a Democrat who votes in nearly every election. So when the 79-year-old Plant City man got a letter in the mail asking him to donate money to the Republican Party, he figured they must have had him mixed up with someone else. ...more

September 18, 2008

By now most of us have become so inured to the jibber-jabber of campaign advertising that if we turned on the television and heard a commercial accusing a candidate of being a lying, conniving, race-baiting, drug-dealing, sex-crazed Satanist, most of us would probably idly shrug and say: "That's nice. Would you pass the salt, Bertha?" ...more

September 18, 2008

To understand politics, one has to look backward to get a glimpse of the future. ...more

September 12, 2008

Barack Obama seems to enjoy some enormous advantages over John McCain in their pursuit of the White House. Polls show that more than eight out of 10 Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. The Republican brand is in tatters because of the Iraq war and the economic slowdown. And Obama is on pace to raise more money than any presidential candidate in history. ...more

August 24, 2008

Frank Fekete of Hudson likes Jack Mariano and Bill Bunting. ...more

August 16, 2008

When state-mandated property-tax cuts forced Pasco County to cut spending by $16 million last summer, Sheriff Bob White came in asking for a budget increase of $11 million. ...more

August 8, 2008

The Book Closing Road Show is a way for residents to change their party affiliation or register to vote in time for next month's primary election. ...more

July 28, 2008

REQUEST AN ABSENTEE BALLOT BY AUG. 20 ...more

July 26, 2008