Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that the Republican presidential nominee in waiting, Sen. John McCain, has lobbyists as top aides and "many of them have been running their business on the campaign bus while they've been helping him." ...more

February 24, 2008

Change might be blowing in the wind for insurance coverage for hurricanes and other natural disasters, Pasco County Commissioner Jack Mariano thinks. Mariano has been pushing hard for a nationwide fund for catastrophic insurance. Various proposals have been floating around for the past 12 years. ...more

February 23, 2008

Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, picked up a total of 50 GOP national convention delegates from Michigan and Louisiana on Saturday. ...more

February 17, 2008

U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, has asked Gov. Charlie Crist to convince Crist's new political big buddy, Sen. John McCain, the likely 2008 Republican presidential nominee, to drop his opposition to creating a national catastrophe fund to pay for damages from natural disasters such as hurricanes. ...more

February 16, 2008

In August 1980, as the conservative Christian movement was first transforming American politics, Ronald Reagan stood before a Dallas stadium full of 15,000 foot-stomping, hand-clapping evangelicals and pledged his fealty to the Bible. ...more

December 6, 2007