By: Nancy Smith
| Posted: October 31, 2012 3:55 AM
A week before Election Day the Florida Democratic Party makes the contentious Steve Southerland-Al Lawson race all about veterans' dissatisfaction with how their congressman is representing them.
No one would believe it, but a combined effort by tea party activists and the NAACP helped defeat a proposed 1 percent sales tax for transportation on the 10 main counties that make up some 6 million people living in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
WASHINGTON -- We're still a few weeks from summer's dog days and the conventions, and already feral rabidity has set in. Add to the long list of psycho-political syndromes the "Romney Derangement Syndrome."
If Jennifer Carroll felt flustered by a former aide's accusation of office sexcapades, you couldn't tell by the polished performance she gave Thursday morning on CNN.
By: Gray Rohrer
| Posted: January 17, 2011 8:31 PM
Gov. Rick Scott said creating more jobs and opportunities and leveling the playing field for everyone -- that's the best way to achieve Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a society where character, not skin color, is the determinant factor.
By: Gray Rohrer
| Posted: November 2, 2010 4:05 AM
Thanks to the 2000 presidential election debacle -- most of it centered here in Florida -- both major parties have amassed a storehouse of legal firepower. As voters head to the polls Tuesday, judicial decisions and the mere presence of lawyers have already affected some midterm elections across the country.
Two weeks after supporters of Amendment 8 began a campaign to urge Floridians to vote in favor of the constitutional change that would relax caps on class sizes, opponents of the measure are fighting back.
