From Huffington Post’s Top 10 Richest Members of Congress: Rep. Vern Buchanan  had a few successes and failures in his career, but most of his money comes from his successful chain of car dealerships, as well as offshore reinsurance companies.

Univision will air the first debate among Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek and Marco Rubio on Friday, September 17. The debate will be taped at 1 p.m. and the hour-long debate will air in English and Spanish at 11 p.m. on the station’s affiliates in Fort Myers/Naples, Miami, Orlando and Tampa.

Between April 2009 and May 2010, social networking use among Internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88 percent — from 25 percent to 47 percent, according to Pew Research Center. It also found that one in ten Internet users 50 and older use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves or see updates [...]

I know, I know, Steve Schale is a frekin’ genius.  Dude helped win Florida for Barack Obama — and for that Democrats should be eternally grateful. I also know that I have a minority opinion about Schale’s effectiveness when he was in charge of the Florida Democratic Party’s House Victory operations, but, hey, that’s just [...]

Brian Shuford, Director of Governmental Affairs for the Pinellas Realtor Organization, opines:  Many of you may have seen the commercials and news stories discussing a campaign to bring light rail to the Tampa Bay area.  Those who live in Hillsborough County will be voting in November on a one cent transportation surtax referendum.  Approving this [...]

One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don’t drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually [...]

In its latest analysis of NFL franchises financial data, Forbes finds: that the Buccaneers are no longer among the elite franchises in the NFL. For the first time in several years the team fell out of the top 10 in league revenue last season. This season the Bucs expect to have some of their games [...]

In a screed to whatever supporters Brian Blair still has left, Blair’s publicist Shannon Rose threatens promises that  “that this will not be the last you hear from Brian Blair on a campaign trail. He does not give up” while attempting to blame Blair’s loss on the media coverage, which originated on this blog, about the troubles [...]

As one advisor to Republican state House candidate Jeff Brandes cautions, running against Democrat Bill Heller is a lot like running against Santa Claus.  One of the words you keep hearing when people talk about Heller, former president of USF-St.Pete and omnipresent community leader, is “institution.” In other words, how do you beat an institution? [...]

From the Juice: Kenrick Meek lost in rural counties that are predominantly white, where the Democratic Party is made up of Southerners who have rejected the GOP. Take Holmes County, a tiny sliver of land in the Panhandle with just under 20,000 people. Nine out of ten residents there are white, and most of them who voted in [...]