TAMPA A competitive race with well-known candidates and possible primaries on both sides is developing for the U.S. House seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam of Bartow. ...more

March 4, 2009

Conservative evangelical leader James Dobson has resigned as chairman of Focus on the Family but will continue to play a prominent role at the organization he founded more than three decades ago. ...more

February 27, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist has pursued his political career through five offices in 17 years, and now is looking at a sixth, the U.S. Senate. ...more

February 23, 2009

A simple apology would have sufficed. Instead, Sen. Russ Feingold has decided to follow his McCain-Feingold evisceration of the First Amendment with Feingold-McCain, more vandalism against the Constitution. ...more

February 22, 2009

President Barack Obama really likes to say, "Let me be clear," before he speaks pontifically about nothing specific nor in any way particularly informative. But now it's my turn to speak clearly — perhaps even with enough logic and fact to engage inquiring minds. ...more

February 20, 2009

A Washington lobbyist has settled her $27 million defamation lawsuit against The New York Times over a story involving then-presidential candidate John McCain, both sides disclosed Thursday ...more

February 19, 2009

Obama Elected To Help Americans elected Barack Obama president instead of John McCain because we need jobs, not more tax cuts for the wealthy. Trickle-down economics crashed with the stock market. ...more

February 16, 2009

Barack Obama has paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln in many ways, from tracing his inaugural path ...more

February 12, 2009

With an unlikely ally at his side - Republican Gov. Charlie Crist - Barack Obama made his first Florida appearance as president Tuesday to push his economic stimulus plan, the first major legislative test of his administration. ...more

February 11, 2009

The proposal would allow a tax credit of 10 percent of the value of new or existing residences, up to a $15,000 limit. ...more

February 5, 2009