2:29 p.m.: No lines, no waiting. That's the situation at Precinct 570 at Curlew United Methodist Church in Palm Harbor this afternoon. ...more

November 4, 2008

as well as longtime school board member Marge Whaley - wants voters to take a leap Nov. 4 and elect an under-qualified teacher as the next superintendent of schools. ...more

October 15, 2008

The Democrats are back in the state House 44 race with a candidate who already is firing criticism at Republican incumbent Rob Schenck. ...more

September 27, 2008

The Democrats are back in the state House 44 race with a candidate who is already firing criticism at Republican incumbent Rob Schenck. ...more

September 26, 2008

State Rep. Trey Traviesa of Tampa, who was expected to be one of the Tampa Bay area's most influential state legislators in the coming two years, has announced he won't run for re-election. ...more

August 13, 2008

Politicians don't normally encourage opponents to run against them. But in the case of state Rep. Kevin Ambler, encouraging a young family friend of his to run against him as a write-in candidate could end up helping him. ...more

July 31, 2008

The games go on at Seminole casinos as lawyers, lawmakers and tribal officials deliberate the arcane world of gaming law and Indian sovereignty in the wake of a court ruling that voided an agreement between the state and the tribe. ...more

July 21, 2008

When Pat Frank took her seat as a freshman state senator nearly 30 years ago, she had no intention of paying the customary deference to the powerful Senate rules chairman, Dempsey Barron. ...more

July 5, 2008

After Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's disappointing showing in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, her campaign acknowledges she needs the banned delegates from Florida and Michigan for any chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination. ...more

May 8, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- One week after his appointment as secretary of Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice, State Rep. Frank Peterman today is expected to endorse local lawyer Darryl Rouson as his successor. ...more

February 15, 2008