Already chastened and now contrite, disgraced former circuit judge John Kenneth Renke III will have to stop practicing law for 30 days as further punishment for misleading voters and accepting illegal campaign money. ...more

February 15, 2008

Former Hillsborough County Commissioner Phyllis Busansky will challenge incumbent Buddy Johnson for the county supervisor of elections post in November. ...more

February 9, 2008

You can be reasonably assured this is one new law that will not have an elaborate signing ceremony by Charlie Crist surrounded by Cheshire cat-grinning glad-handers standing proudly behind the governor as he proclaims what a great day this is for Florida's goats. ...more

January 5, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: This occasional series spotlights local school principals. This week's column features Pam Bowden, principal at Durant High School, 4748 Cougar Path, just off Turkey Creek Road. The school's telephone number is (813) 757-9075 ...more

January 2, 2008

The lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy in Mississippi in August 1955, riled black America as nothing had done before. But what happened to him in Mississippi had already happened to a black child in Florida a decade earlier, and there was no national outcry for justice. ...more

November 18, 2007