Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of last week's elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008. ...more

November 8, 2009

A closer look at the hoopla of Super Bowl commercials - the winners, losers and some facts you might not have known. ...more

February 1, 2009

An Alabama police officer is on paid leave after shooting a man who allegedly used racial epithets and threatened him with a knife outside a Florida bar, police said. ...more

December 28, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed two Supreme Court justices and will have the chance to pick two more in the coming months. ...more

December 13, 2008

A state panel interviewed 18 applicants Monday for a third Florida Supreme Court opening in less than a year and now will send the names of at least three nominees to Gov. Charlie Crist. ...more

December 9, 2008

I am a 73-year-old daughter of the south and I voted for Obama. I grew up in a small southern town on a farm. We had one black family in our community. The children were not allowed to attend our school, one of the teachers taught them in her home after school. ...more

November 12, 2008

A $5.3 million grant awarded to the University of Florida College of Dentistry will target cancer prevention for low-income men across the state, including those in St. Petersburg. ...more

November 8, 2008

The National Institutes of Health paid the University of Florida's College of Dentistry a $5.3 million grant to open a research center aimed at detecting oral disease early in low-income minority men. ...more

October 22, 2008

So, has presidential candidate Barack Obama been "talking down to black people" as civil rights icon Jesse Jackson uttered into a "hot mic" on the Fox News Channel? Judging by the enthusiastic response Obama received when he spoke last week before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the answer is no. ...more

July 20, 2008

OCALA - Wesley Snipes will be allowed to leave the United States to work on two movies while his lawyers appeal his tax convictions. ...more

July 3, 2008