2016 Elections

National polls show that it's a tight race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. A west Tampa bakery has a presidential poll of its own. Alessi…

This election season has been unprecedented – even by Florida’s standards. From the panhandle to the peninsula, the Sunshine State’s residents are talking…

Polls are showing that Amendment 1, which supporters say gives Floridians the right to own solar equipment, has seen a rapid decline in support over the…

When she ran for the Legislature two years ago, Lorena Grizzle was clobbered by a well-financed Republican incumbent in a Republican-leaning House…

Two and a half years ago, Jennifer Webb went to Massachusetts to celebrate one sister’s college graduation and try to convince another sister that her…

In 2009, Bernard “Bernie” Fensterwald retired to Florida. But he is no ordinary retiree.As a lawyer in northern Virginia, he worked alongside his father,…

Larry Ahern’s introduction to politics came on a trip to the state Capitol in 2009.He was in Tallahassee for the annual Catholic Days at the Capitol…

In politics, you can’t start much smaller than Kathleen Peters did – on the Planning and Zoning Board in tiny South Pasadena (population 4,964) in…

Pinellas County Commissioner Charlie Justice rode into office four years ago with a promise to reverse the commission’s controversial 2011 decision to…

A delinquent and troublemaker – violent and unteachable.Those are the words that Eliseo Santana uses to describe himself as a teenager in the early…

Something sounds familiar in Pinellas County this election season. Mike Mikurak, the Republican running for the only County Commission seat up for grabs,…

If Matt Stewart wins election to the Pinellas County School Board, he would be its youngest member, at 36, and the only one with a doctorate.But another…