About 4.2 million Floridians have already voted in the presidential election, Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning said Monday - but Election Day voters should expect to stand in line anyway. ...more

November 4, 2008

As the nation heads into a historic election day, Barack Obama has edged ahead of John McCain among Florida voters, but by a margin that still leaves the race a tossup, according to a new poll. ...more

November 2, 2008

Voters can make a political statement AND a fashion statement this year. ...more

October 31, 2008

No elections official wants to re-live the post-election tsunami of 2000 that drowned Florida in a tidal wave of recount challenges and hanging chad. But - with John McCain and Barack Obama possibly heading for a photo finish in Florida, recounts could decide this year's presidential race. ...more

October 25, 2008

Florida Democrats now have a more than 600,000-person advantage in registered voters over Republicans, nearly double the gap between the two parties' registered voters since the last presidential election. ...more

October 19, 2008

U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney did not use campaign funds to buy the silence of a former aide with whom he is accused of having an affair, his attorney said Wednesday. ...more

October 15, 2008

On Nov. 4 Florida voters will have to decide the fate of six proposed changes to the state constitution. Each proposed amendment will have to garner at least 60 percent of the vote to be approved. ...more

October 15, 2008

The five biggest taxing districts in Highlands County lost more than $519 million dollars in taxable land values this year, according to Property Appraiser Raymond McIntyre. ...more

October 13, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - School officials say class-size requirements scheduled to take effect next year are impractical considering the financial strain school districts are facing across the state. ...more

October 12, 2008

Let's go Rays! Attending four games in a week and clanking my cowbell during the final, playoff-clinching home stand, I felt briefly seduced into feeling "at home" myself, 35 years after leaving Tampa. Not to the point of getting a mohawk, though. ...more

October 5, 2008