Two registered voters have filed a lawsuit in Pasco County challenging the write-in candidate "loophole" in state election law. ...more

July 1, 2008

Declining property values and bigger tax breaks for homeowners drained about $2.9 billion from Pasco County's taxable property value during the yearlong period ending Jan. 1. ...more

July 1, 2008

SEBRING — Raymond McIntyre's office generated an interesting set of numbers this week: 222 people have moved to Highlands County, and brought their Save Our Homes tax exemptions with them. ...more

June 28, 2008

Seeking any edge in the upcoming presidential, state and local elections, Democrats and Republicans are trying to register and motivate a new pool of potential Florida voters: former felons. ...more

June 13, 2008

While the federal government has been sending income tax rebate checks to stimulate the economy, another proposal in the works would offer a $750 tax credit to entice people to buy houses. ...more

June 5, 2008

Judges should interpret laws, not make them. ...more

June 3, 2008

A reasonable solution for counting the votes in Florida's premature primary was reached Saturday by a Democratic Party committee. Florida will be allowed to send all its delegates to the Democratic Convention, but each delegate gets only one-half of a vote. ...more

June 3, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - With the federal government in the midst of sending out income tax rebate checks, another proposal in the works would offer a $750 tax credit to entice people to buy houses. Greg Armstrong, president of the West Pasco Board of Realtors, recently spent a week in Washington, D.C., with a delegation lobbying for various bills such as the $750 credit to home buyers. ...more

May 31, 2008

Voting activists demanded Thursday that state officials stop one Florida county from experimenting with Internet voting this fall. ...more

May 30, 2008

Even as Sen. Barack Obama's supporters were saying the dispute over the Florida and Michigan convention delegates no longer matters, that dispute intensified Thursday with a new lawsuit and threat of a convention floor fight. ...more

May 23, 2008