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Mitt Romney accepted his party's presidential nomination and promised to end four years of "disappointment and division." President Obama, he said, has failed to solve the nation's problems and it's time for him to leave the White House.

Protesters in town for the RNC took a bus ride down to Apollo Beach on Thursday to support an environmental protest at TECO Energy's Big Bend power…

The most important speech of Mitt Romney's career reached out to skeptical female voters, spoke to those disillusioned with President Obama, and had its genuinely moving interludes. Was it enough to change lingering perceptions of the long-running candidate?

Transcript of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention.

After the Occupy Wall Street People and the anarchists seemingly fled downtown Tampa after several days of protests, the working class came out Wednesday…

They were dressed in masks. Some wore black bandannas over their faces. They were shirtless, beating drums, and one guy wore a boot on his head."Wake up,…

Scott Finn of WUSF Public Media in Tampa, Fla., wonders why some media reports paint his city — host of the Republican National Convention — as "a disaster" and the "strip club capital of the world." He says Tampa looks as much like America as anywhere else and that bashers should back off.

About fifteen thousand members of the media were in town for the RNC--but perhaps you didn't notice, given the limited coverage of Tampa within the last…

Remember how everyone was scared that thousands of protesters would descend on Tampa, throwing the RNC into chaos? Well, that "invasion" never…

With polls suggesting a North Carolina race that's tight as a tick, Republicans are seeking to increase their vote across the board, including places where President Obama did well in 2008. On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, an on-the-ground look at the race in the host state.

Mitt Romney has Clint Eastwood and that now-famous empty chair on his side. But the Republican presidential nominee isn't the only one getting entertainment industry shoutouts this week.

Readers and listeners complain about bias in individual segments of NPR's coverage, but Managing Editor David Sweeney says overall balance in the aggregate is what counts. We listened to a morning news meeting to see how the NPR sausage gets made.

The Tampa Bay Times reports that Tampa International Airport officials faced a major challenge Saturday--not a huge number of people leaving town after…

Among the places getting a facelift in advance of the Republican National Convention is one location that most hope doesn't get a lot of use--Hillsborough…

Occupy Wall Street says it will protest at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., next week as a run-up to mass demonstrations planned for its Sept. 17 anniversary.

WUSF Public Media mounted an unprecedented effort to cover the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa.Here are some of the photos from behind the…

The 12-foot-high steel barricades are gone. "Romneyville" is gone too, with some trash and ruts in the grass the only reminder of the protester's tent…

It may be a little unfair - comparing a hurricane day to an annual Labor Day festival. However, downtown Tampa was deserted the Monday before the…

The Chick-fil-A/gay marriage debate has hit the Tampa campus of USF. Humanities professor Scott Ferguson has started a petition on change.org to remove…

All week long, Florida Democrats have heard how important their state is in the coming election.On Wednesday, it was time to get more specific.The Naples…

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay will open the doors to a brand new animal health center today during a ribbon cutting ceremony. The grand opening comes…

State officials express confidence that a federal immigration database will expose more ineligible voters, but critics say the effort harms eligible minorities.

A year to the day an improvised explosive device took his eyesight, Navy Lt. Brad Snyder won his second gold medal in his favorite event, the 400…

Charlie Crist's political transformation continued Thursday night, as the one-time "lifelong Republican" spoke during prime time at the Democratic…

At their conventions, the parties presented varying visions of America — as an entrepreneurial paradise where hard work, innovation and prudence are all that matters, and as a communitarian paradise where racial, national and religious differences are subsumed in a surge of shared success. Voters must decide which resonates most and why.