He has been called America's first civil rights martyr, yet his name rarely arises with those of Medgar Evers or Martin Luther King Jr....

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis Stogie's Quote of ...

We Are The Change We Have Been Waiting For We just learned that we won all three contests today -- in Louisiana, Nebraska, and Washington St...

A godless minority will gather Saturday to celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin and promote unconstrained scientific inquiry. More than...

I feel bad for Howard Dean. Really, I do. The man just has a politician's version of Tourette's syndrome. I'm sure when he said...

From the early 1950s through the 1980s, a group of African-American artists who came to be known as the Florida Highwaymen painted utopian...

The famous mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs will become state employees on Nov. 1. That's when the venerable roadside attraction will b...

Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee stood before City Council members Thursday clutching a report from the Department of Homeland Security he sa...

Trade with Cuba is wrong because Cuba is a communist country. Trade with China and Vietnam is vital to both international harmony and buyin...

Bush spoke to a boisterous crowd shortly after 7 a.m. EST. The ballroom erupted in cheers when someone shouted "Are there conservative...

2:00pm - 4:00pm, Monday, February 11, 2008, At The College Hill Library 2607 East Martin Luther King Boulevard, Tampa Representative Kathy ...

With his preemptive war and seemingly permanent occupation in Iraq, and his attempt to privatize Social Security, George W. Bush pushed Ame...

The state is trying to dissolve a community of sex offenders living under a bridge that includes a makeshift gym, kitchen, living room and ...

It's midmorning in Miami Beach. The sun is shining, the waves are lapping - and the bulldozer is roaring. Orange netting ropes off sect...

The sheriff's operations center is actually three parcels of land, which include an auto maintenance facility and several parking lots....

Today the federal government proposed designating almost 5,000 square miles of reef area off the coasts of Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U....

Millions of Americans in 24 states turned out to vote in Super Tuesday presidential primaries from Georgia to Alaska. Some dedicated if con...

And what did this fine solar-baked Caucasian Congresswoman from the Sunshine State do to deserve that dubious recognition? She argued that ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today ruled that a secret settlement agreement entered into between Georgia, the U.S. Army Corps of...

The truly most divisive figure in the 2008 race is not Hillary Clinton, it’s John McCain. His ascendancy has ripped the Republican Party as...

"I've never made a speech like this at a political event before. So what am I doing here. I'm here because finally one person ...

Florida has one of the least effective property and casualty insurance systems in the country, according to a new study that gave Florida a...

February 12, 2008- 7 pm, Sun Dome Corral , Tickets: Free for USF Students with valid USF ID, $3- USF Faculty, Staff, and Alumni with valid ...

In homes across America, DFA members are gathering on February 13 to reveal the truth about our voting system. Please join fellow DFA membe...

Amy Goodman is one of the leading journalists of our time. She is executive producer and host of Democracy Now, a daily, independent radio ...

Vote Obama 2008

Voters, in fact the majority, were actually filling out the poll—it could also be called a survey—AND printing their names at the top and s...

Get The FARC Out Of Columbia

Nasa scientists have explained why the weekends in Florida are so nice and sunny: because industrial pollution causes bigger rainstoms duri...

Meet William Hymes I believe that the City of Natchitoches is ready for change. I graduated from Natchitoches Central High School in 1983 a...

Wed, Feb 6th at Piccadilly Cafeteria, 11810 N Dale Mabry, Tampa, with Frank Sanchez as our guest speaker! 6:30 Social, 7 – 8:30 pm meeting ...

When the NFL announced three years ago that the Super Bowl would come to Tampa in 2009, Mayor Pam Iorio pledged to fast-track work on a dow...

DNA Vertical, Inc., a Tampa, Florida-based consulting firm, today announced the January 2008 launch of DaleMabryHwy.com , an all new online...

During the past three fiscal years, 27,393 of the 32,251 Cubans who arrived in the United States seeking political asylum without prior per...

Worried about conservative unrest over Sen. John McCain's emergence as Republican presidential front-runner, Florida GOP leaders warned...

With chisels in hand and eyes focused on concrete, Eric McCarty barely seems to notice the cars that whiz past him at the entrance to the C...

Tue, Feb 5th 7:00 pm at the Lutz Civic Center (98 1st Ave NW, Lutz) For more info, contact Alvin at 813.949.4673 or visit www.lutzdemocrat...

It was in 1999 that McCain decided to mount his first challenge for the Republican presidential nomination. He ran against Bush and quickly...

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Florida LGBT civil rights groups said Saturday they will mount an aggressive campaign to defeat a proposed amendment to the state constitut...

The NeoCon Meltdown Continues

Florida's new effort to fight smoking through advertising starts Sunday with one of the most coveted ad spots, the Super Bowl. The 30-s...

Federal officials on Friday suspended the development permit for Cypress Creek Town Center, the regional mall under construction at the junc...

Iowa and Florida have joined the legal battle over whether states should have the right to set tougher vehicle emission standards than thos...

Two Egyptian college students arrested near a Navy weapons station in South Carolina last year were carrying low-grade fireworks, as they c...

With hundreds of thousands of ballots cast across the country, for the first time in MoveOn's history, we've voted together to endo...

Party with Pinellas Dems on Super Tuesday at The Beach Theatre in St Pete Beach at 7:00 pm. A $10 donation is glady accepted to help assi...

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal's 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgen...

I'm talking instead about the quiet revolution that has overthrown the old order in the Republican Party. We have witnessed nothing les...

Maybe the Democrats and Republicans will nominate Presidential candidates this year who will stand up against the war profiteers, the nucle...

This is the Sunshine State - but for the thousands of Brits who came to Florida to escape the British weather, there is a political chill i...

Florida's fields and groves can be dangerous -- sometimes deadly -- playgrounds for children of migrant farmworkers who are often left ...

He did that once before, if you remember. He decided he would take the lead in Florida. Karen Thurman in effect turned the party over to hi...