TAMPA — About 1,000 people lined up along Dale Mabry Highway for the chance to meet conservative pundit Glenn Beck, who visited a Borders bookstore as part of his whirlwind tour through Florida on Saturday to promote his latest book, Arguing with Idiots.
His [...]
Here's what I did this afternoon:
More details at Soul of Miami and Sex and the Beach.
It was a good party - met Mustang Bobby and saw the Miami Beach 411 crowd — always the life of the party. Plus I met the [...]
Gov. Charlie Crist will speak to the Broward GOP Monday night at the Sheraton Suites Cypress Creek in Fort Lauderdale. He will speak at some point between 7 and 8 p.m. but get there early -- it will be crowded. Social hour starts at 6.
Crist is trying to secure the [...]
Democratic attorney general candidate Dave Aronberg has received his first organized labor endorsement from a non-law enforcement source, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
IUPAT is one of the most politically active unions, providing volunteers and crowds for candidates it favors.
Aronberg faces Dan Gelber in a tough… [...]
Nearly 30 people turned out Tuesday night for a Hillsborough County Young Democrats meeting at Streetcar Charlie's in Ybor City. President Jennifer Fenn told the group it was the largest crowd ever, even though it was a rainy night. Guest speakers were former Congressman Jim Davis and Florida Senate candidate [...]
I thought this was an archive photo of the 1969 Woodstock concert. I have never seen a bigger crowd than this tea party protest in Washington DC. This must be the right of center majority I hear so much about. [...] 
About 350 people turned out Friday night for the Hillsborough County Democratic Black Caucus "Living the Dream" gala, where U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek was the keynote speaker. Meek, a U.S. Senate candidate, addressed the crowd via Skype from D.C. He chose not to travel to Tampa for the event because [...]
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH -- U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio swept into a cigar-and-sushi fed crowd Monday night in coastal Pinellas, softening the ground for a events this month -- and January -- to win support in the county.
Rubio's event at Crabby Bill's sushi restaurant attracted roughly 200 people, according to [...]
NAVARRE — U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is an unlikely contender in northwest Florida, a strip of the Bible Belt closer to Alabama than his hometown of Miami.
For the young Cuban-American politician, Panhandle voters could be a tough crowd: They've come across few Hispanic candidates and often view South Florida [...]
Pinellas County Tax Collector Diane Nelson's office sent its annual news release reminding people the annual tax notice is on the way. There's a new wrinkle this autumn, though -- the H1N1 virus.
"One way to save time – and avoid crowds in this year’s H1N1 Flu season – is to [...]
Hundreds of Republicans have packed the standing room only space at a Fort Lauderdale hotel to hear Marco Rubio speak to the Broward GOP -- a talk that almost didn't happen.
Javier Manjarres, a Rubio fan who heads up the Conservative Republican Alliance, said that a couple of weeks ago GOP leaders' [...]
About 100 protesters rallied across the street from the Fountainebleau Miami Beach Monday to criticize a range of President Barack Obama's policies, from healthcare to immigration to the president's golfing.
The crowd was a diverse one: Haitian-Americans calling for temporary protected status for Haitians, anti-abortion activists, birthers who question Obama's birth place, gun rights activists' [...]
As a Navy band rocked the crowd, an estimated 1,000 servicemen and women gathered inside a hangar at Naval Air Station Jacksonville to await President Obama's scheduled mid-afternoon appearance. The president is scheduled to make a speech and rally the troops before he heads to Miami for a Monday [...]
As a Navy band rocked the crowd, an estimated 1,000 servicemen and women gathered inside a hangar at Naval Air Station Jacksonville to await President Obama's scheduled midafternoon appearance. The president is scheduled to make a speech and rally the troops before he heads to Miami for a [...]
Marco Rubio, following a week of good news for his U.S. Senate campaign, got a warm reception from a big crowd at the New Tampa Republican Club tonight, throwing out red-meat Republican issues.
Rubio drew applause telling the crowd he favors a “fair tax”—replacing the graduated income tax with a… [...]
Marco Rubio, following a week of good news for his U.S. Senate campaign, got a warm reception from a big crowd tonight at the New Tampa Republican Club tonight, throwing out red-meat Republican issues.
Rubio drew applause telling the crowd he favors a “fair tax”—replacing the graduated income tax with… [...]
CLEARWATER -- Despite opposition from a crowd of 50 resident and haulers, the Pinellas County Commission voted 4-3 to start the process of adding mandatory trash pickup.
Under the plan, the county would contract with haulers to pickup garbage in neighborhoods in unincorporated Pinellas starting in January 2013. Tuesday night's vote [...]
