West Virginia has decided to cancel its Sept. 8 football game at Florida State. School officials informed Florida State late Friday they would pay a $350,000 escape fee to shelve the trip. Florida State Athletic Director Randy Spetman said Saturday he’s disappointed that West Virginia would not honor the first half of a home-and-home agreement [...]

Newt Gingrich’s campaign has announced that it will hold a post-Nevada caucus press conference tonight at 11 p.m. EST at the Venetian in Las Vegas, instead of the traditional speech that candidates usually give after a primary or caucus night.

Tuesday, Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners will be looking at a request for a referendum on allowing slot machines, particularly at the Derby Lane greyhound race track. While officials from Derby Lane initiated the request for the County Commission, Commissioner Susan Latvala reported that Richard Winning, vice president of Derby Lane, isn’t sure that [...]

Being single is becoming more and more the norm: Americans are now within mere percentage points of being a majority single nation: Only 51% of adults today are married, according to census data. And 28% of all households now consist of just one person — the highest level in U.S. history. That second statistic may appear less [...]

Despite the sponsor’s plea to move out of the “horse and buggy days,” a House panel Tuesday killed a bill that could have led to foreclosure notices disappearing from newspapers and going to Internet sites, reports Jim Saunders of the News Service of Florida. Siding with the newspaper industry and groups such as AARP, the [...]

The Las Vegas Sun has a great primer on what will take place at Nevada’s caucuses Saturday.  I’ll be live-blogging here throughout the day. Here’s where the candidates will be today: Romney has a rally in Colorado Springs at 2:45 MT and a victory party at the Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas at 7:40 PT. Santorum campaigns [...]

As a result of the dissatisfaction with the GOP presidential field, CBS News notes that voters “are waiting until the last minute to determine for whom to award their ballot.” “In Iowa, nearly half of caucus-goers decided in the last few days. Of those voters, two in 10 made their decision on Election Day. In New Hampshire, [...]

When the 2012 legislative session started, it would have been safe to predict that redistricting would be the most-difficult — and politically divisive — issue to resolve. But with House votes Friday, the Republican-dominated Legislature is close to finalizing its redistricting plans. The maps likely will face court challenges from Democrats and other critics, but [...]

From a new research paper in PS: Political Science & Politics: “Many reformers continue to argue for a de-politicization of the redistricting process, claiming that partisan redistricting is responsible for declining electoral competition and increasing legislative polarization. Our analysis of evidence from state legislatures during the last decade suggests that the effects of partisan redistricting on [...]

Mark Sharpe was prepared for the news Friday afternoon from Tallahassee. He suspected the new political district maps for congressional and legislative races would pass the state House, and he knew what it would mean to his plan to run for Kathy Castor’s District 11 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. So he didn’t [...]