Today is primary election day ...more

August 26, 2008

The next time you make some microwave popcorn or cook a frozen pizza, consider this: The packaging of many of these products contains a chemical that the Environmental Protection Agency considers potentially carcinogenic and wants businesses to voluntarily stop using by 2015. ...more

August 3, 2008

A loophole in elections law allows State Rep. Kevin Ambler to campaign against a friend whose name won't even appear on the ballot. ...more

August 1, 2008

Is Florida turning blue? Or just slightly bluish? Or even just a less reddish shade of purple? ...more

July 15, 2008

Internet Fills A Gap Regarding " 'Whitey' Lie Is Just The Beginning" (Commentary, June 22): ...more

June 29, 2008

Incumbents in two state House districts representing Central and South Tampa face opposition in their campaigns for reelection. ...more

June 28, 2008

Every politician is a person who can tell you what you want to hear and then do as he pleases when he gets into office. This has been going on since time began, and unless a miracle happens it's going to be the same in this election. ...more

June 27, 2008

Every politician is a person who can tell you what you want to hear and then do as he pleases when he gets into office. This has been going on since time began, and unless a miracle happens it's going to be the same in this election. Sen. Barack Obama says he's for change and has a lot of very young people that will tell you that this is the truth. However, I don't take much stock in 18-20-year-olds who haven't been out of high school long enough to start supporting themselves, let alone think that they have the abilities to run this country. Obama's only experience is in the state Senate and nowhere else that I can see, and it's obvious that the majority of black Americans support him because he is black. The highest percentage of black voters in history have turned out so there is, in my opinion, a race issue here, whether we like it or not. ...more

June 26, 2008

Even as Sen. Barack Obama's supporters were saying the dispute over the Florida and Michigan convention delegates no longer matters, that dispute intensified Thursday with a new lawsuit and threat of a convention floor fight. ...more

May 23, 2008

The specter of shuttered courthouses from Key West to Pensacola was raised Wednesday after local chief judges said they and others were told to furlough key employees to save about $17 million statewide. ...more

February 21, 2008