3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (815+ words) Last July, Dr. Patricia Altagracia Alonzo filed to run for Tampa’s District 7 City Council seat, highlighting what she says are economic disparity in her district. District 7 starts north of Busch Boulevard, covering Forest Hills, Terrace Park, University Square, up to…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (435+ words) The Florida Realtors trade group is getting behind Amendment 3, the major property tax cut on the November ballot, putting $10 million to support the measure. “Affordability is on the forefront for every Floridian, and they need meaningful relief,” said Chuck Bonfiglio…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (377+ words) With Democrats calling for his removal from office, Attorney General James Uthmeier this week defended the distribution of Medicaid settlement dollars into political committees under his control and blamed a state attorney for coordinating the leak of a grand jury…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (476+ words) Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says tonight’s first midterm Republican convention in Dallas has one mission: to defy history and grow Republican majorities in both the House and Senate in November. The Sarasota Republican, officially still representing Florida’s 22nd District…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (634+ words) Three weeks after her double-digit victory in the Florida Democratic U.S. Senate primary, Angie Nixon is making her case to general election voters by linking GOP incumbent Ashley Moody to Donald Trump, saying she “rubber-stamps everything he does.” The Jacksonville state…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (365+ words) Just a couple months from the midterm election, Hillsborough County Democratic Black Caucus will bring people together again for its general election candidate forum. The event invites all statewide and local candidates and residents across the state to First Baptist…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1713+ words) You can’t accuse Bob Gualtieri of going with the flow. The Pinellas County sheriff has the rare combination of brains and guts to go against the current and move the needle on nationwide policy. His undertakings are enabled by his…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (456+ words) Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier called Tuesday for legislation imposing criminal penalties for corporations running chatbots that engage in criminal activity. Acknowledging you “can’t lock up a company behind bars,” the AG said in Tampa on Tuesday that his office…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (278+ words) The Sierra Club has become the latest organization to announce opposition to Amendment 3 on the November ballot, saying that if passed it “will effectively gut the buckets of local governments in Florida.” The Republican-controlled Legislature placed the measure on the…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (692+ words) Byron Donalds says David Jolly “isn’t doing much of anything” on the campaign trail, but Jolly is firing back that it’s Donalds who dropped out of what would have been the first one-on-one events between the two men running for…...