Pasco GOP Chairman Bill Bunting wants voters to know the local Republican Executive Committee is not endorsing any candidate over another in upcoming primaries. ...more

June 28, 2008

Barack Obama told Hillary Rodham Clinton's top financial backers Thursday that he personally has donated $2,300 to her campaign and more significantly has asked his biggest donors to help pay off her more than $20 million debt. ...more

June 27, 2008

The Pasco County Democratic Party is considering a legal challenge to remove write-in candidate John Taylor from the November ballot after the District 1 county commission candidate's residency was called into question. ...more

June 24, 2008

The Correct Choice I am sure most people remember where they were and who they were with on Sept. 11, 2001. In January 1986, I can recall where I was and who I was with when the Challenger blew up. ...more

June 21, 2008

The two Republican candidates for Pasco County sheriff will not meet in a gentleman's duel of sorts despite the challenger calling out his former boss. ...more

June 20, 2008

Let's see if we can figure out who this man is and how he got there. ...more

June 18, 2008

This week I read that Carl Cool, who retired as Highlands County Administrator, had announced his candidacy to run for county commissioner. I was very surprised to see an employee of the county who retries one week and announces he was seeking re-employment by the county within two weeks. I thought this would be unethical. ...more

June 15, 2008

"Who are you? And how can you write such crap?" ...more

June 14, 2008

SEBRING — Carl Cool ended more than six months of speculation about whether he would run for the Highlands County Commission seat held by incumbent Republican Barbara Stewart. On Tuesday, Cool, the former chief executive officer of county government for 17 years, announced that he will run for county commissioner. Both Cool and Stewart live in the Avon Park county commission district. They will have their electoral contest decided on Aug. 26, when voters pick between them in the Republican primary election. The winner then would go against a Democrat and possibly independent candidates in the November general election. Cool said he relied on close friends and prayers to make his decision to run for political office for the first time in his life. ...more

June 10, 2008

First lady Laura Bush made an unusual foray into the U.S. presidential campaign, praising Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., here Monday for her "grit and strength" and coming to the defense of Michelle Obama, the wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee. ...more

June 10, 2008