For the five years she has run Frida's Cafe and Bakery on busy Ulmerton Road, Frida Alipour has sold cookies featuring the faces of the presidential candidates. ...more

January 21, 2009

For the five years she's run Frida's Café and Bakery on busy Ulmerton Road, Frida Alipour has sold cookies featuring the faces of the presidential candidates before the election. And, as part of an unofficial poll, her staff keeps track of how many of a particular candidate's cookies sell before Nov. 4. ...more

January 20, 2009

The skyrocketing foreclosure rates that have been making national news for months and became a major issue in the presidential campaigns also hit Highlands County in 2008. ...more

December 31, 2008

He could fill a Republican leadership void in Washington. He could steer the national agenda in his own conservative direction. ...more

December 12, 2008

"Meet the Press," NBC's Sunday-morning political forum, has announced that journalist David Gregory will take the helm of the program. ...more

December 8, 2008

Charles W. Hatfield of New Port Richey says the 2008 presidential election was so ridiculously and overly long he didn't vote, although he is a lifelong Democrat. ...more

November 12, 2008

"Otto, you wrote that you were just glad the elections were over. I've been reading you for years and know that you know the political season is never over. They just take a break, send the losers down to the minor leagues and it all begins again. ...more

November 10, 2008

They raise money through text messages and release videos directly to the Internet, but Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are relying on the old-fashioned U.S. Postal Service to deliver that staple of a presidential campaign's final weeks: the attack ad. ...more

October 27, 2008

Now that folksy is in, I don't mind admitting that the first line of Joe Biden's latest e-mail reminded me of my grandmother. ...more

October 12, 2008

Now that folksy is in, I don't mind admitting that the first line of Joe Biden's latest e-mail reminded me of my grandmother. ...more

October 12, 2008