In regards to Doug Patton's recent column in which he equates Huckabee to Ronald Reagan, with all due respect to Mr. Patton and anyone else who has like-minded opinions, he doesn't know what he is talking about. ...more

January 9, 2008

Hernando County's teachers are slowly moving up on the pay scale, with beginning teachers set to make $6,000 more than they would have in the 2003-04 school year. ...more

January 3, 2008

CHICAGO (AP) - It was a Wednesday night ritual for Barack Obama: After a day of debating taxes, the death penalty or some other divisive issue, he'd head to a meeting of "The Committee." Lawmakers and lobbyists, Democrats and Republicans alike, would put their politics on hold and gather for ... their weekly poker game. ...more

December 29, 2007

At a key moment during a labor-sponsored debate in August, John Edwards laid down a marker against Hillary Rodham Clinton. ...more

December 15, 2007

More than 200 years after they were written, huge portions of the papers of America's founding fathers are still decades away from being published, prompting a distinguished group of scholars and federal officials to pressure Congress to speed the process along. ...more

December 15, 2007

A lot of people claim members of Congress get rich while serving their constituents. That's not true at all. ...more

November 28, 2007

Two state senators who came together last year to criticize the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority have opposite views over the authority's recent effort to hire an outside lobbyist. ...more

October 24, 2007

Call it the health insurance companies and nursing homes versus doctors and the AARP, a classic, inside-the-Beltway struggle that erupted when House Democrats sought changes to Medicare. ...more

October 8, 2007