FAIRS & FESTS Today Suncoast Dixieland Jazz Classic: features a kick-off jazz parade, adult and youth jazz bands performing traditional jazz and swing music and buffet dinner; 10 a.m. today; $35 to $50; 1160 Gulf Blvd., Clearwater; (727) 536-0064 ...more

November 23, 2008

Sometimes we get the government we deserve. Case in point: Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson, who couldn't count all the votes Tuesday night, even with his own re-election bid hanging in the balance. ...more

November 6, 2008

9:57 p.m. Long after the polls closed, as about 100 University of South Florida students waited in line to cast their votes, Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson told reporters that school officials underestimated the turnout. During a 20-minute period, the on-campus polling center was out of ballots. ...more

November 4, 2008

Local leaders are fighting approval of a proposed business they fear could negatively affect patrons and other people within the community. ...more

October 15, 2008

From the outside, the small white, frame house in rural Seffner looks much like the tiny schoolhouse its founder envisioned. ...more

October 8, 2008

Regarding "Jeb Bush's Legislative Report Card Doesn't Make the Grade" (Our Opinion, Sept. 19): ...more

September 27, 2008

Since 1960, hundreds of thousands of University of South Florida students filed into and out of the building known since 1994 as the Marshall Student Center. ...more

September 25, 2008

The University of South Florida bids adieu to the old Marshall Center. ...more

September 24, 2008

Florida students have misconceptions about science, and they need more practice demonstrating its concepts and relating them to the real world, according to an analysis of the state's standardized test. ...more

September 24, 2008

Hillsborough County school officials Wednesday released their SAT college entrance exam scores for the class of 2008. ...more

August 28, 2008