EDITOR'S NOTE: Early voting runs through Nov. 1 for the Nov. 4 general election. As a service to voters, we will publish this highlights box periodically until Election Day. To read the complete analyses, check out the Tribune's opinion page on tbo.com. ...more

October 20, 2008

With the potential of the hotly contested presidential race drawing a record number of voters to the polls on Nov. 5, Highlands County's Democrat and Republican leaders are urging people to take advantage of early voting, which starts Monday. ...more

October 18, 2008

Republican Penmanship Regarding "Pasco Commission Majority Deserves To Be Kept Intact" (Our Opinion, Oct. 13): ...more

October 18, 2008

Anderson, Guadagnino, Williams face off in Nov. 4 elections. ...more

October 14, 2008

Trailing his opponent in the latest campaign-contribution reports, Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair is looking to local developer heavyweights to pump up his re-election coffers at an Oct. 23 fundraiser. ...more

October 11, 2008

Trailing his opponent in the latest campaign contribution reports, Hillsborough County Commission Brian Blair is looking to local developer heavyweights to pump up his re-election coffers at an Oct. 23 fundraiser. ...more

October 10, 2008

A controversial voter education campaign by Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson cost the county's taxpayers more than $127,000 this year. That figure does not include more than $100,000 that Johnson's office spent on mailing voter registration cards to the county's 668,800 registered voters in the past week. ...more

October 7, 2008

Election Day is less than a month away, and it probably can't come soon enough for some folks. ...more

October 6, 2008

Pasco County voters have the tough task of choosing an elections supervisor to succeed Kurt Browning, who left the post after 26 years to become Florida's secretary of state in early 2007. ...more

October 5, 2008

Making note of the poor turnout in the August primary elections, a local church has organized a youth group to encourage voter registration and participation. ...more

October 1, 2008